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Played a full season with the set- can post results here if anyone's interested. It plays well, no crashes (haven't tried turning scouting on), and most of the stats look good. Power seems a touch low- only Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard and Carlos Pena finished over 40 HRs, with Howard and Pena tied for the ML lead with 45.
There are a few oddities-
-some prospects hit the majors sooner than they should, or perform better than they should (Gaby Sanchez and Nolan Reimold are ROY candidates, for example, Drew Sutton was Houston's starting 2B, Antoan Richardson and Emmanuel Burriss both made SF's opening day lineup, Jon Niese won 16 games for the Mets, Erik Cordier was Atlanta's third starter for the whole season and he'll be coming back from TJ surgery next year- and none of these guys played above AA this year). There were a few others who I'm surely forgetting.
-there are a few strange players in the set- guys on top 10 prospect lists, or even guys in Major League starting rotations, who don't appear to be in organized baseball in real life. Drew Shetrone (in real life, a 33rd round pick of the Rockies in 2006, pitched in Rookie ball in 2006, didn't pitch anywhere in 2007) was a mainstay of the Rockies' big league rotation in my sim, and even if he was terrible (8-18/5.22), that's a pretty big leap from Rookie ball. The Pirates top 10 prospects also had guys on it like Issael Gonzalez, who didn't play anywhere this year as far as I can tell, and half the guys on their top 10 list were non-prospects.
-the Japanese imports are fun, but I'm guessing there are more in the set than there will be in real life. Kazumi Saitoh signed with the Phillies and led the NL in wins, for example (18-7/2.96)- and he's not likely to see the Majors before 2009.
-there are duplicates of Dan/Daniel Barone (one with each name) and of Pete LaForest.
In any case, despite the minor issues, it's a great set! Thanks.
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