Comments on: Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (SNES)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:51:15 +0000

Finally saw your comment JD! Only took me almost 3 months to see and respond, lol. Dude. Great observations! You just taught me something new about Griffey that I have never known in 32 years… Pat Kelly and Al Martin *ARE* the same speed, but the reason why I always felt Kelly ran slower despite the same 7 speed than Al Martin was because… Kelly was my 9th place batter! Oh man, thinking of all the extra hits and RBIs I wasted by slotting Kelly 9th, lol. If I ever play another Yankees 162 game season I am definitely hitting Kelly 8th and Mattingly 9th.

Wild how nearly 35 years later and Griffey still astounds. Timeless classic!

By: JD

JD — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:38:32 +0000

Great article! Been years since the post so unsure if you’ll see this comment. You’ve got some impressive records. Your HR record with MAAS is wild. I hit 52 with him so results may vary. I did hit 63 with Danny Tartable though, and 62 with Mickey Tettleton. Have you noticed more HRs with low to mid BAT ratings? I find 9 and 10 BATs hit line drives off the wall much more often. Also the NL parks make HRs tougher with the deeper power alleys and taller walls. Like one time I hit 47 with Bonds but counted at least a dozen off the top of the wall. Put him in Yankee stadium and he could hit 60+.

I second everything you said about the game plus I’ll add some little nuggets on the ratings after 30 years playing and 27 recorded 162 game seasons for last 20 years (plus at least 10 seasons before keeping records).

1. For those who didn’t know, DEF rating is both arm and fielding speed. I observed this when putting fast and slow players with same fielding at same position and saw they had exact same range. Plus slow players with higher DEF ratings have way more range. This made me realize how snubbed guys like Bonds 6 DEF got. Lol. Can’t have his overall be as good as Griffey after all.

2. SPD is actually in 5 tiers, I’ve stop watch tested 90ft and 360ft times. Tiers are 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10. I like to call it tortoise/slow/avg/plus/elite. This includes Pat Kelly and Al Martin, they time the same (I double checked) so I don’t believe there is a “+” and “-” with ratings. Likely an illusion due to circumstantial experiences.

SPD time averages in seconds by tier: 1 and 2: 4.2/16.8, 3 and 4: 4.0/16.0, 5 and 6 (average speed): 3.8/15.2, 7 and 8: 3.6/14.4, 9 and 10: 3.4/13.6. As you see it makes a HUGE difference when multiple bags are involved, like scoring from 1st, single into double, double into triple etc. Plus speed can really pressure the defense, elite is just dominant.

3. I can’t test it but I suspect POW follows the same with tiers. The jump from 4 to 5, 6 to 7 and 8 to 9 is stark as I’m sure you noticed.

4. As far as I can tell, BAT contributes to the length of the bat (how far outside it reaches) and frequency of line drives. This might mean a bigger sweet spot but not sure. Doesn’t change much in production overall.

Another nugget to those who didn’t notice: the 9 hole in the AL has a slow speed bug. Put a plus runner there and they’re still slow. Maybe it’s because the NL pitchers have 3 spd and it’s coded the same? Pinch running doesn’t help the AL 9 hole runner either, unlike for NL pitchers. Don’t waste speedsters batting 9th in the AL!

By: Halifax

Halifax — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:12:03 +0000

Love the article.

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https://discord.gg/GJWzc2NvWW

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:49:15 +0000

Thank you Nathan for this cool info. Man, just when you think you know a game inside out and it still throws a curveball at cha, lol.
I like Boggs but his stance in the game is just so incredibly awkward and I feel I can never get good stats out of him. I like the guy on the bench with speed 9. Despite his low BAT and POW stats, he still hits over .300 for me and usually belts 20+ HR. Plus his speed 9 is just so damn fast.

Thanks for stopping by and the compliments!

By: Nathan Shaffer

Nathan Shaffer — Fri, 28 May 2021 22:23:30 +0000

Hey just wanted to let you know that island… Your closer isn’t Johnson…it’s Paul assenmacher…he was traded to the Yanks halfway Thur the season from the cubs…his win/loss and era. Match perfect with the game.. they both wore #43 that season so I’m guessing Johnson got sent to the minors, because I looked up his stats and he only played 3yrs in the show 93 being the last with a era of 30.00 something…the only reason I noticed is because I change every player to there real name…there is a list online if you Google it and I have been playing with the Yanks..100% agree that mass and nokes r beasts…I take out Gallego and leyritz who is a decent hitter I jus can’t force myself to take boggs out…when I play with indians I even sub in Manny Ramirez even tho he sux because in 93 he just had been called up for the last month…I bought a modded SNES mini on eBay with 200 games pre installed bout a yr ago and discovered this gem…I had a Genesis growing up.. anyways great article…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 02:21:04 +0000

Hey Johnny T. Thanks for your kind message; I love reading stuff like this. I agree with you, this is possibly my most favorite game of all time, let alone baseball game. Yeah, listing RBIs next to their BA and HR would have been nice but I guess they ran out of real estate. IIRC, my best season was 154-8. As for mixing up my starting lineup, I don’t like to. I put the typical bench guys in the starting lineup from day 1 and don’t deviate. Matt Nokes, Kevin Maas and so forth. Love using that Yankee line up!

By: Johnny T

Johnny T — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:10:42 +0000

This review was fantastic. Though I am now in my late 30’s this review brought back some fantastic memories from my childhood. It was easily my favorite SNES game and as a huge baseball fan may be my favorite video game ever. There are so many things to love, though I always wished they displayed RBIs next to .AVG and HR when a batter was up. Ah well.

I recently fired up the game and I think I’ll start a 162 game season again.

I could never get below 10 losses in a season (Without cheating of course). Interesting lineup with the Yanks. That’s also my go-to team and agree on using Matt Nokes and Pat Kelley. I could never get Donnie Baseball to hit the ball. Guy seems to ground out every time I use him.

Did you ever use guys from your bench to mix-up the starting line up?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:50:13 +0000

Hey Cranky Old Baseball Fan (great name),
I appreciate your kind words. Yes, Griffey is a special baseball video game indeed. I just played a full 162-game season this past spring… it never gets old. Honestly, I was never able to get into Winning Run as I would have hoped… and am hoping still for it to “click” with me one of these days. I will probably write a review of it at some point, but not before playing it more thoroughly first. So many games and things and not enough time, heh.

BTW, check out my Field of Dreams article I recently published. It deals with baseball and I figure you might enjoy reading it

By: Cranky Old Baseball Fan

Cranky Old Baseball Fan — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:27:46 +0000

Love your review and the game itself. I found a website that let’s you play old SNES games online for free and I’ve been playing Griffey MLB more than the show. Also was wondering if you’ll do a similar review for Ken Griffey Jr’s Winning Run on SNES. It doesn’t get much love as it’s not as smooth as the original but I like how the computer would randomly choose alternate uniforms for the teams. I was bummed that Winning Run didn’t pay much detail to the ball parks like the original one did.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:48:41 +0000

Nice, please share your stats when you get a chance — I’d be curious to see how you did. How many HRs did Crash (Sammy Sosa) hit? That’s cool too that the game didn’t delete your top guy’s HR count at the All Star Break. As a kid I assumed they programmed that bug because they didn’t want anyone to break Roger Maris’ then top HR mark of 61, lol.