For me it's 21 year old rookie Joel Julio. It's not his offence that is surprising. His offensive attributes are near superstar levels and rising, and he is meeting those expectations with the bat.
I called him up for his bat when Jarome Mauzoul went down with a broken hand. The idea was that he would mostly occupy the DH position. I played him a few times in his natural position (LF) and the results were as expected, which is to say he was a horrible liability in left and I broke into a nervous sweat whenever he had to run for a ball.
But one of his listed secondary positions is 3B. At first I thought "there is no way I'm letting him play third". I have a thing about 3B. I feel that having great defense at third is essential, so you can imagine my resistance to trying Julio at 3rd. But the situation arose where a bunch of my infielders needed a rest, and I was facing a relatively easy team, so I decided to try it. He was... suprisingly competent, which is high praise from me. So I decided to give him a few more games at third. The trend held. Don't get me wrong he's no gold glove player, but he looks way more comfortable there then in left.
I'm thinking a move the the infield is in his near future. He's certainly tall enough to play 1rst, so a 1rst/3rd baseman he may soon be.
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Jays franchise, Teoscar Hernandez is killing it for me. I don稚 have the PS4 handy at the moment but I知 pretty sure I知 hitting about .325 12 HRs and 23 or so RBI through the end of April with him.
Also Trent Thorton, same franchise SP I believe he is 4-1 with a sub 2.00 ERA .
I知 playing every game every pitch, so no sim involved.
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Funny in my control franchise using modern rosters, I'm also over-performing with Teoscar Hernandez. He's currently batting leadoff while leading my Jays in every offencive catagory, and is rock solid in the field as well.
Trent Thorton on the other hand did not make the cut out of spring.