Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

[Metsaholic230]

Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

I also built a no spend team.

Off the top of my head:
1B Keith Hernandez (Got him from conquest. He's a hitting machine and a diamond fielder. He's hitting almost .400. Has like no power, but damn he just slaps hits into the field left and right)
2B Diamond Ian Kinsler - Probably my weakest Diamond, but he's good for now. Bought him on the market
SS Diamond Jose Reyes from the Team affinity - 97 speed, decent hitting diamond fielder. Just exchange cards and play as all Mets in conquest. Easy peasy to get
3B Diamond Brooks Robinson - He's a beast... Got him from one of the XP rewards
RF Diamond Matt Kemp - Got him from a moment achievement I believe. He's a beast all around
CF Diamond player created - It's me and I'm awesome. It's pretty easy to build an awesome diamond. Probably took 4-5 hours tops
LF Acuna - Me and every other team has him in LF. I really want to get rid of him at some point. His defense drives me nuts. He sure can hit and run though.
C - Diamond Mike Piazza - Not going to be the best Piazza card, but it will do for now. Got this for collecting all the Mets. This was hard and took a lot of time as Degrom, Noah and Diaz are all expensive as hell. I got lucky pulling Diaz in a pack.

Pitching I won't bother going into much, but I have Goose and Diaz to close games and a decent collection of starting pitchers. I need to fill out 1B and LF with better players and then I'll start aiming for elite pitching.

[Metsaholic230]

Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

I also built a no spend team.

Off the top of my head:
1B Keith Hernandez (Got him from conquest. He's a hitting machine and a diamond fielder. He's hitting almost .400. Has like no power, but damn he just slaps hits into the field left and right)
2B Diamond Ian Kinsler - Probably my weakest Diamond, but he's good for now. Bought him on the market
SS Diamond Jose Reyes from the Team affinity - 97 speed, decent hitting diamond fielder. Just exchange cards and play as all Mets in conquest. Easy peasy to get
3B Diamond Brooks Robinson - He's a beast... Got him from one of the XP rewards
RF Diamond Matt Kemp - Got him from a moment achievement I believe. He's a beast all around
CF Diamond player created - It's me and I'm awesome. It's pretty easy to build an awesome diamond. Probably took 4-5 hours tops
LF Acuna - Me and every other team has him in LF. I really want to get rid of him at some point. His defense drives me nuts. He sure can hit and run though.
C - Diamond Mike Piazza - Not going to be the best Piazza card, but it will do for now. Got this for collecting all the Mets. This was hard and took a lot of time as Degrom, Noah and Diaz are all expensive as hell. I got lucky pulling Diaz in a pack.

Pitching I won't bother going into much, but I have Goose and Diaz to close games and a decent collection of starting pitchers. I need to fill out 1B and LF with better players and then I'll start aiming for elite pitching.

I finally finished the 2nd inning program as I was busy the last couple of weeks. had to just plow through the moments which wasn't exactly super fun, but it didn't take all that long. I then hit a bunch of milestones and got more diamonds to pick. I personally think they might be overly generous with rewards this year, but I like it better than it being super hard.

1B Miguel Cabrera - I'm really iffy about playing him at 1B as it's his secondary position for this card, but I'm not moving Brooks from 3B.

2B Ian Kinsler

SS Jose Reyes

3B Brooks Robinson

LF Matt Kemp

CF Player created dude - Probably won't last much longer on my lineup, but I'm hitting like 360 and have 92 speed.

RF Ichiro Suzuki

C Mike Piazza

So all diamonds now. The team is getting kind of ridiculous. I have tons a speed, decent power and good fielding. Guess I should focus on pitching. My pitching is pretty good, but I could use at least one more solid diamond starter. Oliver Perez is my only gold, but he also has an ERA under 2. People can't hit him.

[tarheelscf88]

Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

Just started playing DD in earnest last weekend, but it has been a complete wormhole for my evenings ever since.

Pretty happy with my squad right now, as I'm kinda in a lurch having just collected the 70 XP reward (disappointing), and finished most of the good conquests/moments. My reward for finishing the May moments was Frankie damn Montas, so that's not great for motivation. A weekly voucher exchange turned into some bullpen arm that wouldn't even make my B-team.

Right now, I'm rolling out:
4- 99 Alomar- Stud.
9- Veteran Cobb- Clutch as hell, always gaps me a double when I need it. Defense is lacking.
7- Acuna
5- Hardware Chipper- probably the most realistic feel to a video game player I've ever seen-- hits line drives, not moonshots
3- SS Foxx- still trying to figure him out, his bat drops right into the line of sight for the ball in his load, annoying as hell. He can play literally anywhere as a second position.
8- Cain- poster above said it...dude flat-out does it all. Played a couple of the breakout Griffey moments and decided I didn't want to pursue it too much further. Cain just plays better.
2- Sanchez
6- Rookie Hanley- love this card, but probably the next to go as I move Foxx and Senzel around.

Bench: Diamond Senzel, Breakout Michael Taylor (hitting .929 with him haha), Gold Matt Olson (just got Foxx yesterday), Gold Didi Gregorious (on the chopping block as I just got Senzel as well), Gold David Peralta

SP: SS CC Sabathia, breakout Bob Feller, hardware David Price, hardware Rick Porcello, regular ole Luis Severino. I HATE pitching with Price. Got shelled by the Astros in Conquest playing on daggum Veteran.

RP: LHP Alvarado (stud) and rookie Chris Sale. RHP Chad Green (saved me from the aforementioned David Price meltdown), Carl Edwards Jr/Pedro Strop/Brandon Morrow (no, I don't have a Cubs fetish, they're just my best options), CL Blake Trienen

[FSanchez12]

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I've spent $$ to stockpile stubs in anticipation of a future SS Andrew McCutchen Card becoming available. But up until then, I have spent none of my stubs that I purchased on my current club:

3B: FS Senzel
CF: LS Marte
C: Kendall (whatever one comes with the Digital DL portion, had to get my childhood favorite)
1B: LS Rizzo
CF: LS Springer
RF: LS Acuna Jr
SS: LS Story
2B: 83 Robinson

C: 83 Bench
SS: TN Cole Tucker
OF: FB Bryan Reynolds
1B: LS Josh Bell (flip flops with Willie Stargell based on IE)
OF: LS Blackmon (sometimes flip flops with TN Mallex Smith when I need speed)

SP: 89 Oswalt
SP: LS Snell
SP: 83 Burnett
SP: LS Grenkie
SP: LS Morton

RP: 78 Fergie Jenkins
RP: 79 Chris Sale
RP: 82 Hunter Strickland
RP: LS Felipe Vasquez
RP: LS Kirby Yates
RP: LS Sean Doolittle
RP: LS Blake Treinen

With the sale they had going on for PS+, I just bought up 3 months of membership, so far 9-0 on RS, but I'm quickly approaching my "play level" for opponents. Less teams like mine, more with tons of SS-level diamonds. I really just want to get up above 500 to get the Salvy Perez reward that goes with it, and get up over 200 stars for the 3rd Inning to cash in on reward there. Now that I can play online, I feel like it'll be immensely easier to gobble up stars for the 4th inning program. Really want to work on the Royals TA here soon for the George Brett/Sabrehagen rewards

[RayRay34]

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Proud to say no money spent just lots of grinding and luck from pack pulls

LF- 99 Signature Henderson
CF- 89 Griffey Jr
RF- 92 Andre Dawson
3rd- 91 Signature Aubrey Huff
SS- 87 Ripken Jr. (96 program points away from the 99 Rip)
2nd- 86 Brandon Phillips
1st- 99 Big Hurt Signature
C- 93 Joe Torre

Bench
93 Ichiro
87? Braun
85 Carlos Gomez
85 Giambi
87 Steve Finley

Still have the 88 Cobb, 88 Griffey Jr, Diamond Acunia, Diamond Chapman, Diamond Dave Parker on the reserves

Starters 98 Mad Bum
99 Nolan Ryan
Diamond Liriano 87?
Diamond Hernandez 88?
Signature Whitey Ford 93?

85 Marrow
85 Corey Kenble
Then the rest are a bunch of golds

Sorry all from memory while bored at work

[Woody018365]

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1. RF 99 gwynn
2. 1B 99 Thomas
3. 2B 99 Morgan
4. 3B 99 Robinson
5. CF 99 Snyder
6. LF 94 Kiner
7. SS 94 trammel
8. C 95 Bench

Sp
1. 99 nolan Ryan
2.99 Kershaw
3. 95 Christy Mathewson
4. 91 Newhouser (filthy)
5. 89 feller

Bullpen notables
89 Diaz
99 Hoffman
85 Vazquez

[BodamEscapePlan]

Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

Pretty proud of mine as I can safely say that I spent $0 on it aside from buying the standard edition at launch for the $59.99...

Catchers:
Russell Martin (Signature Series, 99 OVR)
Pablo Sandoval (Breakout, 85 OVR)

1st Basemen:
Frank Thomas (Signature Series, 99 OVR)

2nd Basemen:
Roberto Alomar (Signature Series, 99 OVR)
Ben Zobrist (All-Star Team Affinity, 87 OVR)
Javier Baez (Live Series, 86 OVR)

Shortstops:
Jose Reyes (All-Star Team Affinity, 89 OVR)
...and tomorrow I'll have Omar Vizquel Signature Series (!!!)

3rd Basemen:
Nolan Arenado (Live Series, 91 OVR)
Kris Bryant (Live Series, 85 OVR)

Outfielders:
LF(a) - Christian Yelich (Live Series, 92 OVR)
LF(b) - Cody Bellinger (Live Series, 89 OVR)
CF - Mike Trout (Live Series, 95 OVR)
RF - Ichiro Suzuki (All-Star, 93 OVR)

Rotation:
SP1 - Clayton Kershaw (Signature Series, 99 OVR)
SP2 - Max Scherzer (Live Series, 91 OVR)
SP3 - Johnny Cueto (All-Star Team Affinity, 88 OVR)
SP4 - Rick Ankiel (Signature Series, 88 OVR)
SP5 - Stephen Strasburg (Live Series, 85 OVR)

Bullpen:
LR - Rollie Fingers (Hardware Team Affinity, 89 OVR)
MR - Ken Giles (Rookie, 86 OVR)
MR - Josh Hader (Live Series, 87 OVR)
MR - Troy Percival (All-Star, 86 OVR)
SU7 - Zach Britton (All-Star Team Affinity, 87 OVR)
SU8 - Felipe Vazquez (Breakout Team Affinity, 85 OVR)
CL - "Goose" Gossage (All-Star, 95 OVR)

*Note: I'm about to unlock the Signature Series Billy Wagner and I have no idea who to replace. I'm sure most will suggest Vazquez or Percival but I love both of those cards. I think I may replace Giles and just roll with 4 lefties in my pen.

[ShawnDraven]

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The only money I spent was the $59.99 to buy the game...

C 88 Mike Piazza
1B 99 Frank Thomas
2B 99 Joe Morgan
3B 99 George Brett
SS 97 Omar Vizquel
LF 94 Joey Gallo
CF 90 Mookie Betts
RF 93 Ichiro

Bench
85 Jonathan Lucroy
92 Jose Bautista
88 Ty Cobb
91 Kenny Lofton
87 Ben Zobrist (Rays team affinity)

Rotation
99 Nolan Ryan
99 Clayton Kershaw
93 Whitey Ford
92 Orel Hershiser
92 Juan Marichal

Bullpen
83 Roberto Osuna
87 Josh Hader
89 Aroldis Chapman (basically holding this spot down until I get AS Chapman)
85 Kirby Yates
89 Rollie Fingers (Brewers team affinity)
87 Zack Britton

Closer 96 Goose Gossage

[FSanchez12]

Re: What Does Your DD Squad Look Like?

I've spent $$ to stockpile stubs in anticipation of a future SS Andrew McCutchen Card becoming available. But up until then, I have spent none of my stubs that I purchased on my current club:

3B: FS Senzel
CF: LS Marte
C: Kendall (whatever one comes with the Digital DL portion, had to get my childhood favorite)
1B: LS Rizzo
CF: LS Springer
RF: LS Acuna Jr
SS: LS Story
2B: 83 Robinson

C: 83 Bench
SS: TN Cole Tucker
OF: FB Bryan Reynolds
1B: LS Josh Bell (flip flops with Willie Stargell based on IE)
OF: LS Blackmon (sometimes flip flops with TN Mallex Smith when I need speed)

SP: 89 Oswalt
SP: LS Snell
SP: 83 Burnett
SP: LS Grenkie
SP: LS Morton

RP: 78 Fergie Jenkins
RP: 79 Chris Sale
RP: 82 Hunter Strickland
RP: LS Felipe Vasquez
RP: LS Kirby Yates
RP: LS Sean Doolittle
RP: LS Blake Treinen

Holy Moses, so my how things have changed over the last month.

I went away from just putting together the best possible team, and now I'm just playing with players I enjoy playing with/my favorite players. Even losing has been fun since I started doing this. I also discovered the power of using a CAP (Holy Crap why was I not using one before???!?!?). Here's what I look like right now, subject to change when I add McCutchen from the 4th Inning:

RF: LS Charlie Blackmon
SS: CAP of Me (decently looks like me too)
C: AS Jason Kendall
3B: SS George Brett
1B: LS Josh Bell
CF: LS Ronald Acuna Jr
2B: LS Trevor Story
LF: LS David Dahl
P: Pitcher's Spot

RF: VT Willie Stargell
3B: RK Nolan Arenado
3B: PS Pedro Alvarez
SS: LS Trea Turner
C: PS: Salvador Perez

P: SS Justin Verlander
P: SS Clayton Kershaw
P: SS Madison Bumgarner
P: SS Adam Wainwright
P: RK Roy Oswalt

RP: 79 Chris Sale
RP: RK Ken Giles
RP: TA Felipe Vasquez (Rivero)
RP: LS Kirby Yates
RP: LS Sean Doolittle
RP: LS Blake Treinen
CP: AS Greg Holland

I did end up spending add'l $$ so that I could guarantee I could have George Brett on my team. It's my first real season playing DD, and I've always wanted to play with the guy I was named after, so even though it was $$ to a virtual world, it was money well spent IMO.

I'm excited to see what comes in the next Program, but I'm also heavily invested in Aaron Nola, and have some side investments in Charlie Morton, Zach Grenkie, and Brad Hand. I'm hoping to see at least one, maybe two of them end up getting a bump at the end of the week so I can go out and buy a LS Arenado. What I like so much about the XP progression this year is I always feel that *does pinching motion* close to adding the next big piece. Cutch is right around the corner for the 4th inning, and Tony Gywnn/Duke Snider is not too far off either, as I'm at Bronze 89 right now.

[BIGROC]

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Got a bit of an overhaul... my line up and subs

2B Altuve
LF Yelich
1B Frank Thomas signature series
RF Vlad Guerrero
3B Max Muncy (all star) (swapped with Machado, and Senzel futures card)
C Joe Torre
SS Cal Ripken Jr

Subs
Adrian Gonzalez (88)
Rendon
Senzel
Brantley (All Star card)
Acuna Jr

I also swap different guys in and out of there...

My staff

Kershaw signature series
Ryan signature series
Wainwright signature series
Luis Castillo all star
Mike Scott (from Astros collection completion)

Again, I swap out guys, I use the 89 Oswalt, 88 King Felix, Thor, love Walker Buehler, as well as a few others.... Only true mainstays in the rotation are Kershaw and Wainwright.

Pen
Andrew Miller
Osuna
Yates
Hader
Treinen (closer)
Giles (86)
And I rotate one spot depending on who's hot.

[esham313]

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C-Pudge 84
1B-Miggy 92
2B-Jackie Robinson 88
3B-Chipper 87
SS-Trammel 94
LF-Henderson 99
CF-Granderson 96
RF-Gwynn 99

Bench
Acuna Jr 86
Griffey Jr 88
Will Clark 89
Matt Williams 86
Puig 83

SP
Kershaw 99
Newhouser 91
Harvey 91
Price 86
Ryan 89

[pjsnell10]

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I'm more of a retro Franchise player, but I do the Innings 10 wins for the stars.



1. Joe Morgan 99

2. Rickey Henderson 99

3. Lou Gehrig 99 (hitting poorly with him)

4. Ken Griffey Jr. 99

5. Duke Snider 99

6. Cal Ripken Jr 99

7. Eddie Mathews 95

8. Johnny Bench 95 (can't hit, eventually want to get Pudge)



Bench
Giambi 95 (been raking with him, want to give Gehrig a chance)

Trout 95
Muncy All Star
Harper MVP card


SP
Kershaw 99
Ryan 99
Hunter 95
Morris 95 (love that Forkball)
Harshiser/Vida Blue hardware


Then a bunch of flashback relievers
Melancon
Treinen
Rodney
Chapman live
Jansen live