Your first season

FTG Baseball is a baseball GM sim that you play in your browser at baseball.ftgsports.net. You run one team for a full season. Each step below links to the page that covers it.

Read the Basics pages first for sign-in, leagues, drafts, trades and free agents. The pages in this section cover what is specific to baseball.

First steps

A good order is:

1. Go to baseball.ftgsports.net and sign in. See Accounts and signing in.
2. Create a league and pick the one team you will run all season, or join a league with an invite code. See Leagues and Run your season.
3. In the offseason, set your scouting budget before the first game. You cannot change it during the season. See Front office and Owner's box.
4. Build your draft queue, so the draft can pick for you if your clock runs out. See Draft.
5. Set your lineup and pitching staff on the Depth Chart. See Your team.
6. Check the roster for thin spots, then sign free agents. See Free agency.
7. If you are the commissioner of a manual league, advance the season from the Dashboard. Everyone else sets up the team and waits for the schedule or the commissioner. See Leagues and Run your season.
8. Before the trade deadline, look at trades. See Trades.

All baseball pages

• Run your season: the Dashboard in the regular season, the playoffs and the offseason.
• Your team: ratings, Depth Chart, Outlook, Schedule and Chemistry.
• Front office and Owner's box: scouting budget, draft autopilot, payroll and your owner's goals.
• Minors and farm systems: track prospects, move players to new positions and compare farms.
• Players and news: scout every player and read the news feed.
• Draft: the queue and auto-pick.
• Free agency: direct offers in season, sealed bids in the offseason.
• Trades: Shop player, the On the block panel, incoming offers and the trade window.
• League rankings, records and the deadline: Leaders, GMs, History, Champions, Hall of Fame, All-Star Game and the trade-deadline clock.
• Commissioner: league settings and invites.

Help inside the game

The game shows a short tip for each screen. The tip changes with the season phase. If you want to report a problem, see Sending feedback.