Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers

As a detective, I would have started by analyzing the clue itself. The clue mentions a video game franchise that stars major-league baseballers. This instantly alerted me that I was looking for a video game that had something to do with baseball. My next step would be to brainstorm and list out any baseball video game franchises that I could think of. Names like ‘MLB: The Show’ or ‘Major League Baseball 2K’ came to mind, but after some research, I discovered that none of these fit the bill particularly well.

That’s when I turned to a little more creative thinking. I associated the word “big” with baseball, and so I wondered whether the video game could have used the word “big” in its title. A quick Google search led me to ‘THEBIGS‘ – a video game franchise that features fictionalized, exaggerated versions of real-life Major League Baseball players. I was thrilled to find that it fit the criterion of the crossword clue perfectly.

Finally, I was able to solve the mystery of the crossword clue ‘Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers’ by deducing that ‘THEBIGS‘ is the correct answer. My thought process involved critical thinking, association, and a little bit of creativity – all of which worked towards leading me to the answer.