Our base Windows game package that includes everything you need to get started with the best baseball sim game ever. Each game package includes the 2025 season. Packages including cards will ship out all cards for the 2025 season, including the base card set plus the additional players.

New for Version 2025:

• 1) Quick Play Improvement – In addition to Quick Playing to the top of a particular inning, you can now choose to Quick Play to the bottom of any inning. 
• • Team Reports
  • League Reports
  • Team Stats Reports
  • League Stats Reports
  • Player Stats Report   
  • 2) Computer Manager Update Dialog Improvement – The Computer Manager dialog has been improved in the following ways:
    • You can now see up to 27 batters or pitchers on the left-side of the screen.  Previously you could see just a handful of players listed, and you needed to constantly scroll to get to the player you wished to change.
    • You can now also see up to 27 games listed on the Starter Schedule, again making things easier (previously only 15 games were being displayed).
    • When a player in the minor leagues was used in a role (such as long reliever or pinch runner) it was hard to read his name on some monitors.  That is because we were using light-blue text on a white background.  We have switched to black letters on a light-blue background, which makes it much easier to read.

     3) Filter by BALANCE rating – Sort Players has been improved to allow filtering of players by Balance Rating.  This will allow you to identify players that are better vs. lefties or righties.  That will come in handy when trying to assemble a balanced draft team.   To use this feature you enter in the “From BAL” and the “To BAL” and only batters and/or pitchers whose balance rating falls into that range will be displayed.  For example, say that you are looking to add a batter to your bench who is a “lefty killer”.  In that case you might set the “From BAL” to “9L” and the “To BAL” to “4L” so that only batters who are much better against lefty pitchers will be displayed in the free agent pool.

    4) Undo Last Play Improvement – In many circumstances the Undo Last Play feature now allows you to delete only the substitutions (and not the preceding play).  Optionally you will also be able to delete the preceding play.  However, due to the way the game code is structured this capability will not be available in certain circumstances, such as when an injury occurs on the play. Also, if multiple substitutions have been made, they will be batched together and deleted as a group (but even in that case you won’ t be forced to delete the previous play).

    5) Pre-Game Notes – If you are using Automatic Transactions the pre-game Game Notes report now sorts the list of the current day’s transactions by team.  This will group all of a team’s transactions together, making it easier to see the roster changes that each team has made.

    6) Reports – The size and positioning of reports is now saved.  Your preferred size and positioning is automatically used when you open that same report type the next time.  This will be especially handy if you are using non-default font settings, as that previously might have required re-adjusting the size of the report every time you opened it.  Customized size and positioning is available for the following reports:

  7) Computer Manager – The Computer Manager has been changed to better constrain excessive pitch counts from being accumulated by starting pitchers.  Additional logic has been added at the start of innings that checks if the starter is beginning to or likely to experience fatigue due to exceeding his target pitch-count, and if so he will be replaced by a reliever.  Note that if you have manually assigned Remove if Pitch Count Exceeds for the starting pitcher then that will be used instead of his target pitch count when making this determination.  

  8) Automatic Free Agent Transactions – The Automatic Transactions system now supports claiming and releasing players from the free-agent pool.  The addition of free agent transactions allows for more flexibility when constructing the .TRN files for modern seasons, which have dramatically many more transactions than in previous seasons.

  9) Awards Voting Report – The League Stats Awards Voting report has been improved so that Designated Hitters are now included in the All-Star Voting and Silver-Slugger award sections.

  10) Player Information Area – The player information area located at the bottom of the main game screen and other dialogs was only showing the player’s first initial and last name.  It now shows the player’s first and last name.  

Strat-O-Matic Baseball 2026 is necessary to play the 2025, 1952, 1985, 2026 Hall of Fame, 1939 Negro Leagues, Baseball Heroes 4, Supplemental Heroes and Stars

System Requirements: Requires Windows XP or higher (Note: older operating systems might work but will not officially be supported), 800 by 600 minimum screen resolution and an internet connection.

NOTE: Lo-Res Color Ballparks shown in screen shot are included with game purchase but Hi-Res Color Ballparks are an optional purchase.

This Product is now available via E-Delivery. After purchase is completed, you will find a link to download your game under Downloads on your account page.

If you need technical assistance regarding E-Delivery products please contact techsupport@strat-o-matic.com. Please read the information for E-Delivery products carefully before purchasing as these items are non-refundable.