Getting Started

Get started with Baseball Mogul Online by logging in, and choosing a team to manage. You can manage your favorite team, or for an extra challenge choose to manage a small market team with fewer financial resources. Baseball Mogul Online includes the real big league players, for extra realism.

Your next step is to check out your new team at the Summary Screen, which gives you a quick overview of your team, and easy access to the team management screens.

Set the Lineup

Take a look at your team's lineup, including your starting roster, the players on your bench, and the players in your minor league club.

Move the players around the lineup, start someone new from your bench, or call a player up from the minors.

Click on any player's name to bring up his detailed scouting report.

Read the Scouting Reports

Scouting reports are an invaluable resource for any General Manager. Use the reports to keep track of the players on your team and on competing teams. See their statistics from previous years, and get a report from your scouting staff with the inside scoop on each player’s strengths and weaknesses.

Set the Defense

Make sure that the players in your lineup are in the positions you want them to play, and see how their performance stacks up against their teammates and other players in the league.

Set the Pitching Rotation

Many people consider the pitcher to be the backbone of a team. The Pitching screen lets you adjust your starting lineup, and choose which players should hold the different roles in your bullpen.

Choose from a four- or five-man pitching rotation, depending on the depth of your staff and whether any players are out with injuries.

Follow the league standings

As the season progresses, keep an eye on the standings screen to see how your team is doing.

Click on any team name to see that team's summary and get more information about their performance.

You can also find out which teams are being managed by other players, and which are managed by the computerized Artificial Intelligence.

Read the Sports Headlines

Baseball Mogul has its own newswire where you can read about all the recent baseball action. Catch up on all the most exciting games with articles about the heroes who made it happen.

If the news story interests you, you can get the box score of the game--or read a full game recap--if you want to know exactly what happened.

There are also headlines for player trades, injuries and other important events.

Look up the League Leaders

Find out which players are leading the league in any of 28 different statistics from Batting Average to Earned Run Average to number of Bases Stolen.

Take a look at their scouting reports, then decide whether you want to make a trade for one of the top performers.

Make the Big Player Trades

Put your mark on the team! Think your team needs a new starting pitcher? Want to trade away your slugger before his contract expires? The trade screen puts you in command. Negotiate with other teams to build the best roster you can afford.

Nothing beats the feeling of completing a complex trade that can take you all the way to the Championship!

Bid on Free Agents

In the offseason you can fill out your roster for the following year by bidding on the available free agents.

Bid against other players and against the computer managers to get the best players at the lowest possible price.

Multiple rounds of bidding let you place your most important bids first, and then see which positions you still need to fill.

Manage the Team Finances

Your baseball team is a business. And like any other business, it has to turn a profit or risk going bankrupt. As General Manager, you control the money you bring in through ticket sales and broadcast rights, and you control the money you spend on player salaries, scouting, your farm club, and your medical staff.

Manage your finances well, and your team will turn a tidy profit. But manage your finances poorly, and you may find yourself in last place for years to come!