I agree with smoke on this. They have gotten alot better all-around. I personally will buy Madden for football, espm for basketball, and I'm thinking MLB 2005 for baseball. It got an 8.5. That is 4 out of 5 of the baseball games out.
There are many other features which I also like, the new manager mode, use with eye toy, and it all-around looks like more fun to me than MVP.