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The game is a new retail update in Konami’s eBaseball series, featuring real players from around the NPB league and a 30-year career mode.<\/p>\n
Konami announced a solid-looking new baseball game this week with eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026. The game has been scheduled for launch on July 15, 2026, and will release on PC and PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n
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Konami shared eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026<\/a> in a trailer this week. It shows off a clean-looking baseball sim and gameplay, showcasing players and stadiums from around Japan.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n The deeper details of eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026 also look bountiful. Besides being able to handle any number of official teams of real players from the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league, fans will also be able to create their own players, design teams, engage in online play against other squads, and explore robust career and coaching modes.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The career mode is said to span a 30-year career, allowing players to take a character from a relative unknown to an ace in the world of professional baseball. You can also take on coaching duties where you\u2019ll take over leadership of a high school team and guide them to victory all the way up to Japan\u2019s Koshien national high school baseball championship.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n eBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026 visuals and gameplay look promising, and it\u2019s sorely needed in a field where we\u2019ve had little more than MLB: The Show and a revived Backyard Baseball carrying the mantle. Stay tuned to the eBaseball topic<\/a> leading up to its launch in July 2026.<\/p>\n Shacknews staff does not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) in their content. Shacknews strictly prohibits the use of its content for AI training or to generate text, including text in the style or format used for this publication. Shacknews reserves all rights to this work.<\/p>\n \t\t\t TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com<\/a> and also find him on BlueSky\u00a0@JohnnyChugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game is a new retail update in Konami’s eBaseball series, featuring real players from around the NPB…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-677213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","10":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116416768871406966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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