Create a player with the name Erik Kiss (case sensitive). His bat is much thinner than normal, and will break at nearly every at bat.

Enter the following name on created player mode: John Prosen and you will get more points to sign your favorite players.

Go to create a player and create a player named jacob paterson, isaiah paterson or keegan paterson. (Case Sensitive) Once he is on your team you will have your self a huge slugger. Most of the time he slams it out of the park with ease with distances over 700 ft.

This is the easiest way to warm up a pitcher. First intentionally hit the guy at bat.(L1+L3)Your pitcher will be kicked out of the game. Choose a new pitcher and he starts with 100% stamina. Note: Your pitcher will not be suspended for hitting the guy.

Barry Bonds may have been kept out of this game by withdrawing himself from the MLBPA, but his replacement, fantasy player "Jim Dowd", has all his attributes. Simply go to Roster Management and choose Jim Dowd (he's easy to find: he's the best player on the Giants, and one of the best players in the game). Edit the player's name to "Barry Bonds", his number to 25 and his hand to lefty. Edit his features to appear less like a random white guy and more like the famous slugger.

When playing a Home Run Showdown or Pitcher Showdown, start the game on the MVP difficulty setting. As soon as the game loads up, pause and change the difficulty to something easier to handle, like Rookie or Pro. Now when you beat the computer you'll get the MVP points for winning on the MVP level, four times the original amount.

First, check your MVP Rewards Checklist. Many of the tasks require you to beat certain teams at their home fields. Start a game against any of these teams and choose MVP Difficulty for maximum points. As the game begins, pause the game and switch controller ports to be the team that you're supposed to beat. If they are batting, simply swing and miss every pitch, and you will get large amounts of points for a Perfect Game, No Hitter, Shutout, and Complete Game. That's a couple of thousand points right there. When this team is on the field, just lob fastballs over the heart of the plate, or intentionally walk the batters and serve up Grand Slams. You get tons of points for putting up large offensive numbers. Now the most important part. At the end of the game, it is imperative that you switch the controller port back to the original team that you selected in order to receive credit for the final results. Since you need to beat the home team, they will have the last at-bat. So in the last inning, take control of the home team and do the "Swing and Miss" trick. Then on the final strike, swing as soon as the pitcher releases the ball, then quickly pause the game and switch the controllers again. It will be as if you aquired all of the stats for the visiting team, and you will be rewarded heavily for your performance.

In Dynasty Mode you recieve MVP points periodically for accomplishments. Assemble a team you feel is good enough to simulate to the playoffs (hint: Yankees). Simulate the season up to the second to last game and then save the game. Once you have it saved, simulate the last game and move into the playoffs. Generally, you recieve anywhere between 5000-9000 MVP points for making the playoffs. Save the points onto your profile when prompted, and then exit the Dynasty mode without saving. Repeat the process and you'll notice that every time you simulate into the playoffs you're saving the points and not your progress. Do this about 20-25 times and you'll have enough points for all the rewards.

Start a new dynasty with the YANKEES. In the DYNASTY SETTINGS page right after you chose to start a new dynasty and even before you choose which team, choose NO for a fantasty draft, put the difficulty level on MVP, turn injuries off, turn suspensions off, turn errors off, turn the trade deadline OFF, turn CPU initiated trades OFF, turn rained out games OFF, and leave everything else as the default. Also, you need to make sure you have the user profile set as PROF1 or if you have your own profile use that one and set it as that in the dynasty options page.

Once you're on the main page of the dynasty, go to SCHEDULE. Scroll all the way through the calender to the last game of the season, since we are using the Yankees for the dynasty, the last game of the regular season on the calender should be on October 3rd, so scroll to October 3rd and choose "Sim up to and including this day." It will take a couple minutes to sim through the entire regular season because the baseball schedule is long and it also has to sim through your two minor league teams associated with the franchise. Throughout the sim, various messages will pop up about the allstar game, minor league playoffs, etc. When these messages pop up, just ignore them and choose "Continue Sim."

Once the sim finishes, go back to the main dynasty page and there will be a couple of boxes that popup saying congratulations you've received 1000 or so MVP points, just click OK and ignore them, because that's not where the bigtime MVP points are. Go to "Advance to next day" and keep pressing continue until you're back at the main dynasty management page and a box pops up saying that the regular season is over.

Right now, save your dynasty and once you're finished saving it go to "Advance To Playoffs", you MUST make sure you save your dynasty at this point BEFORE you choose to advance to the playoffs. After you click on "advance to playoffs," a box will pop up saying "Congratulations, you have completed one or more tasks and have been awarded XXXXX MVP points." The amount of MVP points varies, however you are guaranteed to receive anywhere between at least 15,000 and 20,000 MVP points. Click on OK after that box comes up and press CIRCLE on your PS2 controller which brings up your profile options. When you bring up your profile options go to "Save Profile" and save your profile, it will ask if you want to overwrite previous data and choose YES.

There you go, you've just gotten roughly 20,000 MVP points. Do NOT save your dynasty, the only time you should have ever saved this dynasty was after you finished simming the regular season before you clicked on "advance to playoffs". At this point, just exit the dynasty and a message will pop up saying "are you sure you want to exit, you will lose all of your MVP points and unsaved changes", ignore this message and choose YES. You will not lose your MVP points because you have already saved your profile! You'll now be back at the main menu of MVP Baseball 2004. Just go back to game modes, then go to dynasty mode and load the dynasty.

Once you load the dynasty, just click on "Advance to playoffs" and you'll receive another 20,000 MVP points. Just save your profile and exit the dynasty, then just load it back up again, click on advnace to playoffs again, save your profile again, and exit. You can do this as much as many times as you want, then just go to "My MVP" on the main menu MVP Baseball 2004 and go into "MVP REWARDS" and unlock EVERYTHING.

Classic Stadiums

 

Stadium	Location	Description	MVP Points Needed
Crosley Field	Cincinatti, OH	Home of the Reds, 1912-1970	2500
Astrodome	Houston, TX	Home of the Astros, 1965-1999	2500
Tiger Stadium	Detroit, MI	Home of the Tigers, 1912-1999	3000
Griffith Stadium	Washington, DC	Home of the Senators, 1903-1961	3000
Shibe Park	Philadelphia, PN	Home of the Athletics, 1909-1954	4000
Sportman's Park	St. Louis, MO	Home of the Cardinals, 1920-1966	4000
Polo Grounds	New York, NY	Home of the Giants, 1911-1957	5000
Forbes Field	Pittsburgh, PA	Home of the Pirates, 1909-1970	5000

Retro Jerseys

 

Team	Year	Home/Away	MVP Points Needed
Anaheim Angels	1986	Home	250
Anaheim Angels	1986	Away	250
Houston Astros	1986	Home	250
Houston Astros	1986	Away	250
Kansas City Royals	1985	Home	250
Kansas City Royals	1985	Away	250
Milwaukee Brewers	1982	Home	250
Milwaukee Brewers	1982	Away	250
Toronto Blue Jays	1992	Home	250
Toronto Blue Jays	1992	Away	250
Seattle Mariners	1981	Home	350
Seattle Mariners	1981	Away	350
San Diego Padres	1984	Home	350
San Diego Padres	1984	Away	350
New York Mets	1986	Home	350
New York Mets	1986	Away	350
Montreal Expos	1981	Home	350
Montreal Expos	1981	Away	350
Chicago White Sox	1983	Home	350
Chicago White Sox	1983	Away	350
Atlanta Braves	1974	Home	500
Atlanta Braves	1974	Away	500
Baltimore Orioles	1971	Home	500
Baltimore Orioles	1971	Away	500
Minnesota Twins	1977	Home	500
Minnesota Twins	1977	Away	500
Oakland Athletics	1972	Home	500
Oakland Athletics	1972	Away	500
Philadelphia Phillies	1980	Home	500
Philadelphia Phillies	1980	Away	500
Pittsburgh Pirates	1979	Home	500
Pittsburgh Pirates	1979	Away	500
Texas Rangers	1976	Home	500
Texas Rangers	1976	Away	500
Cincinatti Reds	1970	Home	500
Cincinatti Reds	1970	Away	500
Cleveland Indians	1975	Home	500
Cleveland Indians	1975	Away	500
Chicago Cubs	1954	Home	750
Chicago Cubs	1954	Away	750
St. Louis Cardinals	1934	Home	750
St. Louis Cardinals	1934	Away	750
Brooklyn Dodgers	1941	Home	750
Brooklyn Dodgers	1941	Away	750
Pittsburgh Pirates	1916	Home	750
Pittsburgh Pirates	1916	Away	750
New York Giants	1954	Home	750
New York Giants	1954	Away	750
Detroit Tigers	1906	Home	750
Detroit Tigers	1906	Away	750
New York Yankees	1927	Home	1000
New York Yankees	1927	Away	1000
Philadelphia Athletics	1921	Home	1000
Philadelphia Athletics	1921	Away	1000
Chicago White (Black) Sox	1919	Home	1000
Chicago White (Black) Sox	1919	Away	1000
Washington Senators	1913	Home	1000
Washington Senators	1913	Away	1000
Boston Red Sox	1903	Home	1000
Boston Red Sox	1903	Away	1000

Legendary Players

Player	Team	Years Played	MVP Points Needed
Hal Newhouser	Tigers	1939-1955	2500
Robin Roberts	Phillies	1948-1966	2500
Richie Ashburn	Phillies	1948-1962	2500
Ralph Kiner	Pirates	1946-1955	2500
Bob Lemon	Indians	1941-1958	3000
Phil Rizzuto	Yankees	1941-1956	3000
Hoyt Wilhelm	Giants/Orioles/Red Sox	1952-1972	3000
Larry Doby	Indians	1947-1959	3000
Mel Ott	Giants	1926-1947	3500
Pee Wee Reese	Dodgers	1940-1958	3500
Bob Feller	Indians	1936-1956	3500
Whitey Ford	Yankees	1950-1967	3500
Early Wynn	Senators/Indians/White Sox	1939-1963	3500
Eddie Mathews	Braves	1952-1968	4000
Warren Spahn	Braves	1942-1965	4000
Jimmie Foxx	Athletics/Red Sox	1925-1945	4000
Roy Campanella	Dodgers	1948-1957	4500
Lou Gehrig	Yankees	1923-1939	4500
Honus Wagner	Pirates	1897-1917	4500
Walter Johnson	Senators	1907-1927	4500
Cy Young	Red Sox	1890-1911	4500
Satchel Paige	Indians/Browns/Athletics	1948-1953, 1965	4500
Ty Cobb	Tigers	1905-1928	5000
Babe Ruth	Red Sox/Yankees	1914-1935	5000
Jackie Robinson	Dodgers	1947-1956	5000
Billy Williams	Cubs	1959-1976	2500
Al Kaline	Tigers	1953-1974	2500
Ferguson Jenkins	Cubs/Rangers	1965-1983	2500
Phil Niekro	Braves	1964-1987	2500
Lou Brock	Cardinals	1961-1979	3000
Catfish Hunter	Athletics/Yankees	1965-1979	3000
Luis Apraricio	White Sox/Orioles	1956-1973	3000
Harmon Killebrew	Senators/Twins	1954-1975	3500
Orlando Cepeda	Giants/Cardinals	1958-1974	3500
Rod Carew	Twins/Angels	1967-1985	3500
Brooks Robinson	Orioles	1955-1977	3500
Rollie Fingers	Athletics/Padres/Brewers	1968-1985	3500
Juan Marichal	Giants	1960-1975	3500
Gaylord Perry	Giants/Indians	1962-1983	3500
Tom Seaver	Mets/Reds	1967-1986	4000
Jim Palmer	Orioles	1965-1984	4000
Joe Morgan	Astros/Reds	1963-1984	4000
Willie Stargell	Pirates	1962-1982	4000
Mike Schmidt	Phillies	1972-1989	4000
Robin Yount	Brewers	1974-1993	4000
Willie McCovey	Giants	1959-1980	4500
Reggie Jackson	Athletics/Yankees/Angels	1967-1987	4500
Yogi Berra	Yankees	1946-1965	4500
Nolan Ryan	Mets/Angels/Astros/Rangers	1966-1993	4500
Bob Gibson	Cardinals	1959-1975	4500
Sparky Anderson	Manager, Reds/Tigers	1970-1995
Tommy Lasorda	Manager, Dodgers	1976-1996