I am utterly sick of the show as a game franchise. The only difference from year to year is roster updates. The progression in road to the show is utterly dog s!@+, I posted an ERA of under .70 in spring training and instantly got optioned to AAA after having the best stats in the league the previous season. Not to mention I was already in the MLB but sent down on a "Temporary Stint" because of having a 5 ERA. After turning the difficulty down a bit it went down to >1.00, your performance does not seem to effect your progress. Franchise mode sucks, if you want franchise mode, don't come here, there's a game on PC called Out of the park baseball that does franchise 10x better. Unfortunately however this game holds a monopoly on the career game mode, and rather than playing yet another game in AAA I'm putting the game down. Total scam that this game is like a $60/year subscription to play the same stale broken game every year.