I don't usually buy into the whole “God Squad” circus on YouTube. You know the type: ten minutes of card reveals, a few moonshot homers, and not much talk about what happens when a ranked game gets ugly in the sixth inning. Still, Littleman17's MLB The Show 26 squad caught my eye because it didn't look thrown together. It had a plan. Even if you buy MLB The Show 26 stubs to speed up...

A full 162-game season sounds great in theory, right up until you're staring at another midweek series in June and wondering whether you really want to throw every pitch. That's where Smart Sim in MLB The Show 26 feels like a proper change, not just another menu option. It gives franchise players a way to move through the calendar without feeling like they've handed the whole season to a...