Baseball Stars Professional garnered mixed reception from critics upon its original release, with reviewers praising various aspects of the game such as the presentation, visuals and quality of the digitized voice samples but many were divided in regards to the gameplay.

[3] The game was also released during the same period for the Neo Geo AES, when the system was originally a rental-only system for video game stores and hotels in Japan,[5][6][7] but this was later reversed due to high demand and price, coming into the market as a luxury console on 1 July 1991.

[8][9] It was re-released for the Neo Geo CD on 21 April 1995, with minimal changes compared to the original MVS and AES versions.

[10][11][12] The game has received multiple re-releases in recent years on various digital distribution platforms such as the Virtual Console, PlayStation Network, Nintendo eShop and Xbox Live.

[citation needed] RePlay reported Baseball Stars Professional to be the eighth most-popular arcade game at the time.