Who has been your suprise stand out?

[ZoltanZ]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

Trevor Story has been really good for me. I was playing him at second base when I was completing my innings for the Rockies. He crushes the ball and didnt make a single error at second when I had him in.

[mcmbamm]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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

[RedJeff]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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

[theallfatherodin]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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

[StillFried]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

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

I don't understand why people throw fastballs over the heart of the plate to pitchers. You can shoot it up the middle every time w/ a contact swing. Free chili.

[ez4u2cjaj]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

FB Salty has been absolutely amazing vs RHP. I have over 25 HRs in 200 ABs along with 30 2B since they have the extreme shift on him and users tend to always throw away to him..

Legend Ozzie has racked for me as well hitting over .400 with 5 HRs and 15 RBI in a little over 25 games. I bat him 8th in my lineup so people tend to pitch to him like he was a pitcher and just throw meatballs.

[StillFried]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

Easily Christian Yelich for me. He's been in my lineup since day 1. He's hitting around .380 and leads my team in triples. I've felt no need to upgrade even though he's a 79 silver.

[BigOscar]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

Fernando Rodney. No idea why, but he's absolutely lights out, by far the best of all my relievers. He's still my closer despite being 5-10 worse rated than the rest of my bullpen, but his ERA is under 1 and he always gets the job done. No idea why as his pitches aren't exactly a devastating combination

[skaloper]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

Fernando Rodney. No idea why, but he's absolutely lights out, by far the best of all my relievers. He's still my closer despite being 5-10 worse rated than the rest of my bullpen, but his ERA is under 1 and he always gets the job done. No idea why as his pitches aren't exactly a devastating combination

He has a bit of a funky delivery which is probably why he can get the job done.

[55]

Re: Who has been your suprise stand out?

Fernando Rodney. No idea why, but he's absolutely lights out, by far the best of all my relievers. He's still my closer despite being 5-10 worse rated than the rest of my bullpen, but his ERA is under 1 and he always gets the job done. No idea why as his pitches aren't exactly a devastating combination

His delivery, coupled with a 98 mph fastball and an 83 mph Changeup that moves is why. Love that guy too.