[StateoftheFranchise]

Quick counts are an option
You can save your game and go at your own pace through the season (why more sports games don't have this is beyond me)
Player Lock (you play as one player through some fielding situations if you'd like and every at bat or until the manager pulls the starting pitcher)
Quick Manage which is sim text kind of mode where you can choose an action and it'll sim the outcome.

I sometimes play 3 innings and sim the rest whether it's the 1st 3, middle 3 or final 3 in some of the franchises I've done