PS3 owners go positively gaga every year over Sony’s highly praised MLB: The Show. PlayStation 2 and original Xbox maniacs adored EA Sports’ MVP Baseball 2005, a game that’s still applauded as one of the best baseball extravaganzas ever. Even way back in the dinosaur days of the early ’80s, when Microsoft’s Windows was but a gleam in Bill Gates’ eye, there was Major League Baseball for the Intellivision—justifiably the best-selling title ever for Mattel’s memorable old-school gaming system. We could prattle on if we weren’t under certain word-count restrictions, but the point is that most every console of note has had a really great baseball game to accompany it. 
All, that is, except the Xbox 360, where, due to a Major League Baseball licensing agreement that expires in 2012, America’s pastime has been under the command of 2K Sports since the very beginning. Sadly, the long-term results have been…middling. And never more so than last year’s iteration, the universally derided MLB 2K9.
But with the dawn of a new real-life season—or at least the dawn of a new and incredibly protracted real-life spring training season—comes another chance for redemption, both on the field and over here in virtual-land, too. And this year, the gang at 2K Sports took that chance and, to its credit, ran with it.
Okay, so MLB 2K10 isn’t a perfect 10 in
