OOTP Baseball 14: Release Date Announced!

OOTP 14 Ships April 12 to Pre-Orders

It's official: OOTP 14 will be available on April 12 to everyone who pre-orders the game! You still have time to receive it then, so make sure you place your pre-order today and receive the game three days before it's available worldwide on April 15!

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Surprise OOTP 14 Features!

Every year we like to surprise you with some last-minute OOTP features, and this year is no different. Here's what we've added to the game during its final days of development:

Unlock plenty of performance-based Achievements! How many can you discover during your managerial career?
You can set a player to a "Not Interested" Trade Status, preventing the AI to offer this player to you again.
A Free Agent Draft can now be scheduled from the League Setup functions screen. It's similar to the inaugural draft, but it doesn't clear the team rosters and it assigns picked players adequate 1-year contracts. Such a draft is useful if, for example, you want to have contraction and draft the players released from the contracted teams. Or if you import several historical players into the FA pool and want the teams to draft them.
The new optional Font Size Setting allows you to adjust the interface to your liking.

Congrats to Our OOTP 14 Pre-Order Winners!

We'd like to congratulate Daniel Evensen, winner of the 64GB iPod touch, and Mike Smith, Jeff Conner, and Richard Davis, who each scored a $100 Amazon gift card. Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway.

OOTP 14 will be Daniel's first ever OOTP purchase, and he can't wait to play it. "I've been playing baseball simulations for years, and have known about OOTP for quite some time," he told us. "Every review I've read about OOTP has been very positive, and its historical simulation features in particular have me very interested." You can read our entire interview with him on our forum.

Pro Wrestler Steve Corino:
A Tale of Two Generations Joined By OOTP

Pro wrestler Steve Corino is another recent OOTP convert: He discovered the game last November and has been playing it non-stop since then. "I texted [my wife] once at 2am & said 'I got fired!' (From the Phillies) & she thought it was from my job!" he told us on Twitter recently.

Steve graciously answered several interview questions for an article we recently published on our forum. In it, he talks of his father introducing him to APBA at the age of seven and how he recently got his father into OOTP.

"OOTP has brought my father and I closer together than we ever have been," he said. "At least three or four times a day he will call me: 'Hey Steve, I just traded Cole Hamels for Josh Hamilton.' Or: 'About to clinch a playoff spot, how are you doing?' It's amazing." You can read more, including his trials and tribulations as manager of the present-day and 1982 Phillies, in our article.

Meet Us in New York City on May 31, 2013!

Do you live in the New York City area, or will you be there on May 31, 2013? Then join us for a meet-and-great! The festivities will get underway at 5 PM and end late in the evening.

The location is still to be announced, but please RSVP at the Meetup we created so we have an accurate headcount. We'd love to see you there!

Time to Play Ball!

Excited about OOTP 14 and iOOTP 2013? So are we. Another baseball season is upon us, so what better way to enjoy it than with a little OOTP this spring and summer? Batter up!