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Originally Posted by omniart
The original poster recommended Matty Alou, and I heartily agree with that recommendation. I saw several of them put up good numbers in the entry pool and now a pair of them are putting up respectable numbers in my current league.
I've gone with a different but similar card in center field: Mickey Rivers. He's rated 68, and he is excellent at four things: contact (71), gap (74), defense (75), and speed (85). By way of comparison, my Rivers card is currently batting .315/.324/.464 with a 1.018 defensive efficiency and +2.1 zone rating. The two Matty Alou cards in my league are batting .320/.339/.405 and .298/.322/.407. Their defensive efficiencies are 1.003 and .998, and their zone ratings are +1.0 and -4.0.
It's the good center field defense that I really like. If I just do a player search in my league and sort by center field defense, I see a bunch of all-glove no-bat players (Kevin Pillar, Byron Buxton, Billy Hamilton, etc.), and then I get to Mickey Rivers and A.J Polllock, both on 75, and they're the first ones with what I would consider to be good bats. (And Pollock, a gold card, costs far more than the bronze Rivers.)
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I know there's at least one Rivers card on sale now for the low low price of 100 PP if you buy it now
And there's one Matty Alou in my league that's hitting .372. Was leading the league in BA but looks like he's a few AB short now.