re: Out of the Park Baseball

You can make in-game decisions just like a manager and control your pitchers' strategies pitch-to-pitch (pitch away, pitch to contact, walk, etc) and how your batters approach each swing (take, swing away, bunt, hit and run,etc).

You can be as hands on as your want to be. You can micromanage every decision on the field and off, build a roster and sim, or something in between.

There is a steep learning curve initially because the level of depth is so overwhelming, but you can have the AI run most of the franchise for you until you get the hang of it.

And the minor league rosters are, to my knowledge, fully up to date with accurate ratings and scouting assessments for all of the players.

You even have fairly accurate international rosters. For example, I have OOTP 17 and I can go to the Japanese leagues and see how Shohei Ohtani is doing. Then I can try and bid for his rights or participate in the bidding war if he declares as an international FA.

The opposing AI can also be turned way up so that you can't cheese trades and stuff like that.

ETA: TLDR if you like baseball, buy this shite