2K Sports has announced that it has reached a deal with Major League Baseball, Players Association, and Advanced Media to release MLB 2K13. The game will make its way over to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 5th.

The cover athlete selected for MLB 2K13 will be the American League Cy Young Award winning athlete, David Price, that posted a 20-5 record and league-best 2.56 ERA.

The Perfect Game Challenge will return and have a new contest format for players to battle it out to win $1 million dollars. Last year there were almost 1 million attempts and 1,000 perfect games registered with the contest won by Christopher Gilmore, which won out in a eighth man tournament in NYC.

Only a few more months until baseball fans will getting some peanuts and crackerjacks to tide them over as they swing for the fences when MLB 2K13 is released on March 5, 2013.