Baseball Mogul 2002 is the baseball franchise management game that founded
a genre.

As General Manager (GM), your job is to build the best lineup of players to
take your team to the Championship Series. You can make complex player trades
and sign players to multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you’ll
have to compete with the other team GMs, and negotiate with the player’s
agents. If your new players are good enough, have them join your team right
away, otherwise send them to your minor league franchise for training and
improvement. Then, as the season progresses you choose which players stay in
the big leagues, which ones get sent down to the minors, and which ones get
released or traded.

As GM you also have to manage all the finances for your ballclub, making sure
that the team doesn’t go bankrupt. Raise revenue for your team by setting the
price of tickets and selling the TV broadcast rights, while you manage your
team’s expenses by setting the budget for your farm system, player scouts,
medical staff, and player payroll. But be careful, because fans can be fickle
if your team doesn’t win or if your tickets become too expensive!

Your involvement as GM does not stop in the team’s front office — you also
help to manage your team on the field. You set the starting defense, batting
order and pitching rotation for your team. Of course, once a ballgame starts,
you retire to the luxury box and its up to your team’s coaches and players to
get the win! A powerful game engine simulates each at-bat of the game based on
historical stats and real player performance, assuring you the maximum realism
possible!