I agree with you to an extent.
The game engine itself isn't bad... it's biggest faults were the physics, AI and Graphics.
Aside from that, it wasn't a bad game. If they could somehow go back to 2k7 and start from there I don't think people would be complaining as much.
There were just too many elements that did not focus on baseball and focused more on video game baseball. You want the game to feel like a baseball game, not a baseball video game, IMHO.
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