If there ever was a year not to pre-order the game, this is the year.
I have bought the game every year since MLBTS 12 and for years I have been saying "what I really should do is play last years game this year and then upgrade to this years game in the fall when it goes on sale during something like a Black Friday sale". But I never do it because SDS has always made some sort of change to their game that interested me. But not this year. The only change that has me curious is what they have done to fielding. Other than that, there is nothing new in MLBTS 21 that interests me coupled with the fact that SDS has purposely made my existing MLBTS 20 RTTS players obsolete outside of MLBTS 20. No this is the year to sit on the fence and wait to see what is actually in the game versus buying all the media hype.