Patrick Meadowes is one of the best OOTP players I've seen, and is the best batter in the APL. He's got 180 home runs, a batting title, and three MVP awards, and he'll still just be 27 years old next season. And he can swipe a base.
He was drafted #1 overall by the expansion team Salt Lake City Bees in 2005 out of high school as a shortstop. He was instantly the #1 prospect in the league. He made his major league debut in 2007 at age 20. In his first full season in 2008, he won a batting title and finished second in MVP voting. (Amazingly, he didn't win Rookie of the Year either -- that went to his teammate, a starting pitcher named Lou Barton who recorded a 15-7, 3.01 ERA season.)
Meadowes has bounced around the infield quite a bit in his time in the majors. His ratings now are probably more suited to second base, though he's played about the same number of career innings at second, third, and short. This year he migrated more to third base -- 111 starts at third to only 46 at shortstop. The Bees have two other fairly decent infield prospects that made appearances as September call-ups in 2013, so I expect Meadowes to spend most of his time at third base for the foreseeable future.
When Meadowes became eligible for arbitration after the 2010 season, Salt Lake City locked him up though his age 30 season in 2017 with a 7-year, $102 million contract (quite a bargain)
