How to Get Called Up to the Majors in MLB The Show 25

During the first several hours of the Road to the Show game mode in MLB The Show 25, you have one sole goal in mind: Get to the Major Leagues. Regardless of what way you go about doing it or what position you play, your starting goal is to improve your player’s OVR rating enough so your big league club has no choice but to call you up.

Of course, as any Road to the Show player knows, getting called up to the Bigs isn’t nearly as simple as you think it might be. MLB The Show 25 makes it extremely difficult to get a call-up from AAA and it can even take some time to get out of AA. If you’re wondering when exactly your time will come in Road to the Show, you’re certainly not alone.

Fortunately, I have a general timeline for when you can expect to get called up and the best ways to expedite that process in MLB The Show 25.

How To Reach AAA In MLB The Show 25

Let’s pump the brakes on reaching the majors for a second. Regardless of whether you went straight to the minor leagues from high school or decided to play in college for a few years, your journey begins in AA. You’re placed on the AA-affiliate team for the organization that drafted you and your job is to improve so that you can get called up to AAA, the last step before the majors.

While AA is certainly easier to get out of compared to AAA, it’s still not a walk in the park. Even if you’re tearing it up every game at your position and flying up the Top Prospects list, you likely won’t the call to AAA as quickly as you might hope.

In my experience, a AAA call-up doesn’t happen until around the summer of your first season. Usually, if you’re playing well enough, you’ll receive a call from your AA manager around June. They’ll tell you the organization wants you with the AAA club as soon as possible and your next game will be for that team.

On the other hand, if you’re simulating a lot of your games and your player isn’t performing as well as they should, you could wait all season before getting called up to AAA. As such, it’s my strong advice to play in as many minor league games as possible and not sim through a majority of them. This will help to keep your stats high, give you practice for the next level, and improve your odds of being called up earlier rather than later.

In even the most dire cases, though, most players should get promoted to AAA within their first season. If you’re not promoted to AAA during your first year, make sure to have a great offseason, and then if you perform well at the start of your sophomore campaign, you should get the call.

How To Reach The Majors In MLB The Show 25

Now that you’re in AAA, you’ll want to buckle down and expect a lengthy stay before reaching the Bigs. If you get called up during your first season, there’s a slim chance you’ll get promoted to the Majors by the end of the year. There are some ways to reach the Majors within a year, which I’ll go over later, but for the most part, you’ll spend an entire season in the minors.

If this happens to you, sim through the entire offseason and the next time you can play a game will likely be with your major league club. You’ll get an invite to spring training with the club and here, you have a chance to show off your skills in front of the front office and management.

However, even if you perform the best on a team that consists of regular starters, you’re still not guaranteed to start the year in the majors. In one of my playthroughs, I batted to an average of .450, hit 10 home runs, and didn’t commit an error in spring training. I was still optioned to AAA at the start of the season.

Once again, there are scenarios where a strong enough performance in spring training means you don’t have to return to AAA. However, MLB The Show 25 makes it very difficult to reach the majors, as they want you to truly earn your spot on the roster.

If you are optioned to AAA after spring training, you’re guaranteed to get a call-up within a few months as long as you’re performing somewhat well. If you’re not hitting, pitching, or fielding well, though, you’ll stay in the minors until your performance reaches the level it needs to.

Ways To Get Called Up Faster In MLB The Show 25

With a general timeline in mind for reaching the majors, what are some ways you can expedite that process to ensure you don’t waste years in the minors?

Well, the top way to have the briefest stint possible in the minors is to play for an organization with bad players or no resistance at your position. If you join a top-flight organization such as the Dodgers, then you’ll be stuck behind high OVR players at just about every position. If your big league team doesn’t require your services at the position you play, it takes much longer to get called up.

As such, if you want to have a short stay in AAA, you want to get drafted to a team that doesn’t have a good player at your preferred position. While the organization can trade for a better player during your time in the minors, you have no control over that. The best thing you can do is go to a team that truly needs you, and give them no option but to promote you. You still need to perform well, but not for as long as if you went to a team with a roadblock at your position.

You are allowed to change positions if you’re a position player in Road to the Show, however. So if you see your big league club needs dire help at second base but you’re a designated shortstop, you can switch to second and likely get a quicker call-up. The only time you’re not allowed to switch positions is if you want to try your hand at pitching. Unlike Joey Gallo, you can’t just try out pitching when you feel like it in MLB The Show 25.

The other main way to get out of the minors quicker is to simply play the best you can in every single game. If you’re simulating large portions of your season, your player simply won’t have as strong of stats. Playing yourself every game allows you to accrue more hits, a higher average, or more quality starts as a pitcher. This, in turn, yields a better chance of getting called up regardless of how high or low you are on the Top Prospects list.

Speaking of the Top Prospects list, you also want to pay attention to that. If you see you’re the third or fourth-ranked prospect at your position in an organization, consider switching positions, as you’ll be behind those higher-ranked prospects for quite some time. Even if you are the top-ranked prospect in an organization, though, that’s still not a guarantee to get called up anytime soon in Road to the Show.

Hopefully, I was able to answer some of your questions about getting called up in MLB The Show 25. The timeline differs for every player depending on their team, position, and performance throughout their time in the minors. Just keep your head down, play more games, and eventually, you’ll make it to the Show.