Diamond Dynasty - What's your lineup?

[cts50]

Altoona Bomb Squad


Lineup

2B L Dynasty Player 97 overall
SS R Ernie Banks
1B L Rizzo
C R Jose Abreu (Give me a DH spot and I wont use him there)
LF R Nelson Cruz
CF L Christian Yelich
RF R Jorge Soler
P L Lester
3B R Starlin Castro (He plays SS, so its not like 3B would be foreign to him. Cubs have discussed moving him around anyway. He was SS until I got Banks)

Bench

L Denard Span
R Javy Baez
L Luis Valbuena
S Dexter Fowler
L Kole Calhoun

Staff

Lester
Arrieta
Alex Wood
Drew Smyly
Jason Hammel

Bullpen

Lefties-

Sean Marshall
Eric OFlahtery
Jeremy Affeldt

Righties

Nate Jones
Tom Wilhemson
Pedro Strop
Hector Rondon

I think its a solid team. 7-1 so far (0-5 vs CPU, but I only play HOF)

[Madden's Jowels]

1. Craig Gentry 73 (99 drag bunt, 92 speed, 98 steal. I pulled him and almost sold him before I thought "no... this is my new leadoff guy" haha)
2. Nori Aoki 79
3. Created Guy 87
4. Hunter Pence 87
5. Nolan Arenado 85 (he was a loyalty gold rewards guy)
6. Chris Johnson 76/Billy Butler 79 1B platoon
7. Denard Span 79
8. Yasmani Grandal 76
9. Pitcher


My team isn't that good outside of a few guys, but I've been able to hang with the CPU on Legend until it decides to start killing me in the 8th and 9th innings when I'm looking like I might win.

I didn't get the anniversary edition so no free packs to start with. I did put in $10 to get 12k stubs and bought 12 packs, and I've also done a fair amount of selling off cards to get stubs to buy additional packs. All in all I've opened maybe 20 packs, 96% of which was straight crap. I haven't bought any players on the marketplace, every guy on my team was pulled in a pack or given to me by the game as part of the random rewards or whatever.

[DarkArrow]

Quote: Originally Posted by ALLMAN93

C: Victor Martinez (I know, hes out of position but I cant afford Posey yet and Molina was awful for me. At least he used to play catcher. Right?) 1B: Paul Goldschmidt (Not used him for too long, but in the short time I have hes been pretty mediocre) 2B: Joes Altuve (IMO, best 2B in the game) 3B: Evan Longoria (guy is a monster. He's a good mix between Beltre and Machado. He's got good hitting along with great fielding. Not that Beltre isn't good at fielding, he's just a bit too slow to really charge in on choppers and gun em out) SS: Jose Reyes/Ozzie Smith (Jose is the better hitter by an absolute ton and isnt atrocious defensively so I tend to use him more even though I'm a diehard Cards fan) LF: Carlos Gonzalez/Starling Marte (Cargo gets the start if its a righty and Marte starts if its a lefty) CF: Andrew McCutchen RF: Giancarlo Stanton (Not sure about him. I tend to get a lot of "good" timing swings that he comes up empty on. When he does get it though he really crushes it) Rotation is as follows 1. Clayton Kershaw (pulled him two nights ago) 2. Adam Wainwright (pulled him the first night) 3. Zack Greinke 4. Ryu (got for free after a game. Wouldn't recommend him though) 5. Carlos Martinez (guy is an absolute monster. Take away the fact hes only an 81, he puts out performances you'd expect from Wainwright) Top Relievers 1. Dellin Betances 2. Trevor Rosenthal 3. Craig Kimbrel

fantastic!, that would be my squad in Franchise.
I agree with everything you said about all your starters. Very solid defensively too, not to mention crazy good pitching

Quote: Originally Posted by Foldzy

I refuse to put any money into a broken game and it seems your chances of getting a good card for playing games is slim to none I have a few good players but too many glitches for me to enjoy the mode.

I can respect that, but what are all these glitches that you are talking about? Game's been out less than a week, pretty sure they will put out some patches. Just give it time

Quote: Originally Posted by Madden's Jowels

I haven't bought any players on the marketplace, every guy on my team was pulled in a pack or given to me by the game as part of the random rewards or whatever.

mucho respect for that.
Ideally that's how I want to play.
But I like doing collections, so I have no choice but to buy players on the market.
Another motivation for getting players yourself (from packs) is that you get the real player protrait. It's a minor detail, but I like having the real portraits, not the generated/generic ones

[jm2054]

Just finished the pirates collection no money spent but had luck flipping cards

Lf Sterling Marte
CF McCutchen
RF DD Player 98 ovr
1B Ralph Kiner
C Joe Mauer
3B Aramis Ramirez
SS Everth Cabrera
2B Josh Harrison

Pitchers
Gerrit Cole
Garret Richards
Francisco Liriano
AJ Burnett
Wily Peralta

Bull pen
Lrp Petit

Mrps
Tommy hunter
Jp Howell
Rex Brothers

SUs
Tony Watson
Neftali Felix

Closer
Mark Melancon


I had Scherzer and Tanaka but sold them to get Cutch for the collection. I want them both back Jordan Zimmerman as well

[Pappy Knuckles]

LF Carl Crawford
CF Eric Young Jr
RF Jayson Werth
C Stephen Vogt
1B Eric Hosmer
SS Daniel Descalso
3B Ian Stewart
2B Marcus Semien

Rotation
Jacob de Grom
Tim Lincecum
Tyler Lyons
Charlie Morton
Matt Harrison

Bullpen
LRP S. Pimentel

MRP Ryan Webb
MRP Matt Stites
MRP Ryan Buchter

SU Craig Breslow
SU Troy Patton

CP Jared Hughes

I haven''t bought any packs yet, but I've been competitive so far.

[DarkArrow]

Quote: Originally Posted by jm2054

Just finished the pirates collection no money spent but had luck flipping cards

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

CP Jared Hughes I haven''t bought any packs yet, but I've been competitive so far.

I like this trend of not speding money/not buying packs.
Could also mean SSD might wise up and actually up the quality of their packs, because we know they're not very good.

Hows Hughes as a closer? I have him in my deck, but not activated.

Also want G.Cole as my #1, he's a flamethrower

[jimdawg47]

Keep selling and buying cards with stubbs

[vc15]

Lineup:
CF Starling Marte
2B DD Player (99 Overall)
SS Troy Tulowitzki
RF Ryan Braun
1B Joey Votto
3B Adrian Beltre
LF Matt Kemp
C Jonathan Lucroy

Rotation:
Nolan Ryan
Max Scherzer
Jose Fernandez
Yu Darvish
Matt Latos