[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by joehart

A bit of topic...(apologies) but one of my sons has been asking me to give a quick update to Kushiel. They have similar ideas for their players and he ended up with one of his cards from the AH.
Kushiel started the training process at 1B and my son finally finished at the end of last season.

He trained the 2017 All-Star Corey Seager to 104 Defense and platooned him for almost the entire season in Diamond league (Seattle Endless Summer team).

He is no Helton, Carew, or other top contact WAR producer. However, he has been able to produce a decent stat line for Diamond league:
.263 AVG, .353 OBP, .794 OPS, and may get to about 2.6 WAR.

If you just look at his vs. RHPs stats, the numbers are slightly higher: .360 OBP, .823 OPS, 131 OPS+, and 2.7 WAR.

Fielding wise, he will probably get a Golden Glove, about 100 Double players, 5+ ZR and 1.068 EFF.

From an investment standpoint, it is probably still better to go the Wes Parker or Keith Hernandez route but he wanted to try something different and his team has been doing great despite the average numbers on the card.

Also, he is very jealous of your current card. Hope you have the Record Breaker card from 2000.

He has done wonders with that Seager card squeezing every drop of production out of it with that remarkable defense at IB. I am happy too at 1b platooning Helton and Bagwell. It is the 2000 card. I am using Helton as defensive replacement when Bagwell starts.