I'm not as familiar with the other game, but Strat-o-matic is a wonderful board game, although I don't think it would translate well to text or mail. I've never played the PC game. Years ago, My friend who is addicted to the game use to bring over a couple of teams and we would play a 7 game series together. Whenever he would get a new season of cards, we would replay the playoffs and world series. The games only take about 25-30 minutes, so you could play a whole 7 game series in 2-3 hours.
The game has all the strategy a normal series would have. The cards have actual lefty-righty stats for different players. Slower players will bounce into more double-plays. You can't use the same relief pitchers every game. Injuries, fielding errors, intentional walks, max-innings for different pitchers, etc. etc. It take a few practice games to get the hang of everything, but once you do, it is an amazingly detailed and realistic game.
If you are more into PC games, and you simply enjoy being the GM having to deal with trading, free-agents, budgets, etc, I would recommend Baseball Mogul. I would hate to imagine how many hours I have killed simulating season after season.
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