MLB 2006

MLB 2006 offers a baseball simulation featuring all 30 Major League Baseball teams, authentic stadiums, and nearly 1,200 real players. The game includes multiple offline modes such as exhibition, season, career, franchise, and home run derby, as well as online options for tournaments and roster updates. Players can create custom athletes, even importing faces via an EyeToy camera. The season mode allows players to manage lineups, trades, and drafts while playing through a full schedule, including the All-Star Game and playoffs.

Career mode focuses on a single player's journey from the minors to the majors, with performance-based promotions and contract negotiations. Franchise mode expands management responsibilities to include scouting, staff hiring, stadium upgrades, marketing, and budget control. Hits and fielding outcomes vary naturally, with bobbled balls, ricochets, and dirt-stained uniforms. Pitching uses a release-point meter system for accuracy, while batting relies on timing, with optional "guess pitch" and "guess location" features to improve odds.

The game received "favorable" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GamePro said that the PlayStation 2 version "follows up last year's comeback player of the year with control tweaks and makes its formidable Franchise mode even better." Some websites gave the same console version favorable reviews while it was still in development.