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Originally Posted by joehart

It is my kids and the team they set up for their friend and dad.
I finally had them show me the team yesterday and they essentially invested into cheap bronze and upgraded to silver pitchers with high movement and control.

I don’t believe they have a single great card or had any luck. I will check tonight but I am sure they just sold whoever they got.

If you get super defensive players, you will want to play them and not bench them.
Aparicio will get you 5WAR if you play him full time for many of the leagues.
Same with Belanger at 2B. He trains to 123 or 128 and gets you gold glove defense.

Also, not sure I understand the park setup.
Contact for left handed I understand but you don’t really have any power hitters. You will end up hurting yourself more than you help yourself. If you only have 2 righty hitters that can hit HRs, you may as well not focus on them but the rest of the team.
Otherwise, the teams with live cards and big power will thank you every time.

Essentially, their model is typically...
1B LHB hitter + defensive RHB as platoon
2B Defense. Ignore offense
3B Hitter. Kell works well for early levels
SS Defense
LF Ichiro / Or any of the LHBs with good defense
CF Defense until you can afford a great gold card.
RF Gwynn / maybe platoon either LF or RF

SPs - Movement, control, then stuff.
RPs - Movement, control, then stuff except
for Closer and maybe one of your Setup pitchers

Most of the silver players on the team are pretty reasonable in cost.
Also, the kids sell players as soon as they see that they can sell for more points and get a cheaper but equally good replacement.

Gold cards are not really necessary.
If you have LaValliere, you don’t need a Gold card catcher. Sell him.
Use LaValliere full time against RHPs and find a cheap bronze card for LHPs and as backup (Boone, Sundberg, ...).

Get your wins and points going and then start to accumulate and look for improvements.

I will take a look again at the team in a bit once the kids can log into the account.

Also, if you have spare time, play a historical game for the extra pack.
If you wanted to be really on top, you could earn one Monday, Thursday and Sunday.
In other words, 3 packs before you get to Iron league.
Even if they are bad, you will get yourself 150 or more points, especially with the Auction house giving you great return on live cards.

Thanks for the park advice. Ill try that. I wanted to maximize points at the expense of wins and losses for the EP. I set up the power for park because my gold from starter packs was Goldschmidt. I just haven't gotten around to changing it since I sold him. I will when I can. Thanks for the advice.