How to Retire in MLB The Show 25 RTTS

MLB The Show 25 Road to the Show is a game mode where you can take a created player and go through an entire career with them. From your senior year of high school, to the MLB Draft, to college, to the Minor Leagues, and finally to the Majors, your player literally has decades of baseball in front of them when you start a Road to the Show playthrough. However, all good things must come to an end, and as you get further in RTTS, you might start thinking about retiring from baseball.

Retirement signals the end of a player’s career, but there is no quick button to simply stop playing in Road to the Show. You can’t just go into the settings, say you want to hang up your cleats, and then your playthrough is over in MLB The Show 25. Instead, there’s a unique and somewhat drawn-out process to retire in RTTS, which you can see laid out in the guide below.

Retiring In MLB The Show 25 RTTS

Retiring has long been a difficult process in Road to the Show modes. For the past several years in MLB The Show, players have always asked the same questions about retirement, as the mode never lays it out plainly for you.

The same is true in MLB The Show 25, as there is no easy way to retire from the game you love. As you’ll see once you start to approach your late 30s and early 40s in RTTS, teams will continually offer you contracts to keep playing. There’s no way not to accept these contracts, as you can’t progress or do anything else with your player unless you take one of the offers.

The contracts won’t be as lucrative as they were when your player was in their prime, but apparently, teams still want you to play for them even though you’re old enough to be the parent of some of the younger players in the league. As long as you keep getting contract offers, you can’t retire in RTTS.

The only way to stop playing for good is when teams don’t offer you any additional contracts. If you get to the end of your contract during one season and you see that you have no offers to accept, then you can officially retire.

Of course, there’s no retirement ceremony or anything of that nature; you simply just stop playing, and that RTTS playthrough is effectively over in MLB The Show 25. There’s not even a brief message that appears on the screen commending you for such a strong career. You’re just done with that created player, and you now have to create a new player on another save file or play another mode in MLB The Show 25.

Can Your Agent Help You Retire In MLB The Show 25?

One popular question players have when it comes to retirement is whether or not your agent is allowed to intervene and help the retirement process move along at your pace.

While your agent can help you with a number of career-changing moves, such as getting called up to the Majors in the first place, they can’t offer any concrete assistance with retirement. It’s very possible, and even likely, that your agent eventually gives you a call when your player is older and asks if you want to retire. However, this doesn’t seem to have any effect on the retirement process in RTTS.

You’re still forced to sign contracts and keep playing regardless of your age and desire to hang up the cleats.

What Age Can You Retire At In MLB The Show 25?

Finally, the last question you probably have about retirement is what age you can expect to stop signing contracts. Since that’s the only way to retire in RTTS, there has to be a certain age when the game finally gives in to your request and lets you sail off into the sunset, right?

Well, yes and no. It appears as though the maximum age you can continue playing in MLB The Show 25 is around 46. When you get to this age, it’s likely you won’t keep playing and get another contract offer in the offseason. However, I’ve seen players get new contracts at age 45 that are for multiple years, so it’s possible that you could go slightly beyond age 46 before you’re done being offered contracts.

For the most part, though, you can expect to stop playing in RTTS when you reach your mid-40s. No matter how well you’re still pitching or swinging the bat, no team seems to want a Julio Franco-esque player on their team after you reach a certain age. What that exact age is will be determined differently for each player, though.

And that does it for everything about retiring in MLB The Show 25 Road to the Show. Like most aspects of the mode, including being traded, retiring isn’t easy and requires some luck and random chance. However, there is technically a way to hang up the cleats if you’re willing to wait a few years.