The Kid Quietly Having a Great Start

Ken Griffey Jr has always been a mild disappointment in ATB.  Sure, those that choose to use the more advanced metrics have always known that his stats look a bit inflated when viewed in light of the high offense 1990s, but even so, I always thought he should perform better than he has.

Some stats:

• 1993 Griffey was used 4 times in ATB history (I started the trend in ATB 8 unfortunately) and has a combined .230 / .287 / .403 line in 1776 AB.
• 1994 Griffey has been used in each of the past 3 seasons and has shown good power but a low OBP:  .261 / .300 / .448 with 28 HR's in an average of 556 AB per season.
• 1997 was used long ago but was awful (.280 OBP).

Then we changed the era.

Griffey averaged 31 home runs in a platoon during the 500 resims and this season the Brighton Shadows drafted him in Round 3 and it's payed off in spades.  The Kid is batting .308 with 19 home runs and 52 RBI (it's May 19 in sim world).  He'll undoubtedly cool down, but it's nice to see the best player of the 1990s get his due in ATB.