Who has been your suprise stand out?

[mcmbamm]

3 flashbacks come to mind

1.) Nick Swisher- I started him for a while & he was great! Solid defense & seems to hit everything hard. When I completed the innings grind for Gwynn, I moved him to the bench & he is MONEY as a pinch hitter! over the past couple days, he's 6 for 8 as a pinch hitter with 3 HRs & 2 doubles.

2.) Jarrod Saltalamacchia- He can flat out crush righties. 80 contact vs., R & 88 pwr vs. R & 85 ovr fielding makes him a staple behind the plate vs RHP.

3.) Yasmani Grandal- Salty is great against righties, but not so hot against lefties, so I needed my back up catcher to be able to rake lefties. IMO, he plays above his 79 con vs. L & 81 pwr vs. L ratings. He's almost as effective vs lefties as Salty is vs righties. His defensive stats are not too hot, but I have yet to have a problem with him behind the plate.

All three can be had CHEAP since all they require are completions of the 25 man rosters for there respective teams. I just put in cheap buy offers and waited. The most I spent on any of them was Salty at about 650 stubs, but you get 250 back when you redeem the rewards. All together, I have under 1k in all three and gained 15k xp.

[FenwayMac]

Kike Hernandez without a doubt has been a rock in the three-hole.

[RedJeff]

Kike was bomb for me too. He was my first silver.
Sergio Room is still unhittable. His slider is crazy.

[theallfatherodin]

FB Salty and FB Swisher and FB Rizzo had been amazing for me before i fully upgraded my team with the command and embody missions. I still have FB Rizzo on my bench

[skrody]

for some reason my MVP is pablo sandoval. he's the only player on my team who doesn't align with my captain but i can't take his bat out of the lineup. he's so clutch and always comes through for me.

[Biizz713]

Ok, George Brett is ridiculously good. Much better than I expected, I will probably be able to get all of the hitting achievements with him.

406 ABs - 28 HRs - 67 Runs - 68 RBI - 48 SOs - 5 BBs (I suck) - 5 GIDPs - 68 XBHs - .347 AVG! - .432 AVG/RISP! - .663 SLG % - 1.027 OPS

9 errors in 153 games. He's my MVP for sure.

[55]

In a couple of leagues I play in we have roster restrictions as far as how many gold and diamond players we are allowed to have on our active roster. I run with an all silver pitching staff in that format (I need all the offense I can get) and have been using basic, silver Papelbon as my closer. He's had almost 30 appearances for me and I've yet to give up a run with him. Absolutely unreal.

[CPT JPMorgan]

Catfish Hunter! Keep getting fastballs right down the middle for my pitchers. I am averaging about .800 with every pitcher I have. Got to the point where I leave the pitcher in to bat, even if planning on taking him off the mound the next inning. lol