Baseball Mogul Diamond

Baseball Mogul Diamond is a baseball management game in which you manage teams, rosters and player strategies, scout players and simulate seasons. It includes every season back to 1951 and can load databases from previous versions of Baseball Mogul.

Build and manage a team

You can build an expansion team and use individual strategy settings for each player, including pitch-count limits. Scouting is based on statistics, and reports offer more varied information. General Manager AI handles roster management, player contracts and trades, with trades aimed at improving specific positions as well as overall talent. The AI also models real-life trade and contract data, and player awards such as Gold Gloves.

The game includes free agents after an expansion draft to help complete major and minor league rosters. It adds compensatory draft picks for teams that lose players to free agency, and supports Qualifying Offers and free-agent compensation through draft picks awarded in a “sandwich round.” It does not support every advanced roster rule, such as enforcing a 40-man roster or conducting the Rule 5 Draft.

Players and statistics

Player aging includes mid-career position changes, while fatigue and injuries are simulated more realistically. You can view lefty-righty batting and pitching statistics, more minor-league statistics, and more realistic high school, college and minor-league numbers. The game contains more than 1.2 million lines of data, and scouting reports include more accurate heat maps. Player statistics can be copied from a scouting report to the clipboard with one click.

Pitch tracking records the velocity, break, location and result of every pitch, with head-to-head statistics for every batter-pitcher matchup. The game also improves head-to-head record output and adds statistics and search options to the Sortable Stats screen. Other simulation changes include more consistent advancement of runners on second base on ground balls to the right side, and improved accuracy and stability; stolen-base numbers no longer decline over time.

Seasons and simulation

The game includes historical and fictional season schedules, with improvements to both, and a faster simulation engine. Its 2015 season data includes updated rosters for every team, over 2,100 active players, more than 45 minor leaguers per organization, complete major- and minor-league statistics through 2014, and the real-life 2015 schedule of all 2,430 games.

Saved games each use a separate directory to prevent conflicts with box scores and encyclopedia output. The game also fixes issues affecting Defensive Runs calculations, the Baseball Mogul Encyclopedia and historical all-time leader lists, along with bugs that could cause slowdowns or hangs.