Power Pros Forum

But... terrible defense at a position that is an important one and he's slow. I would rather have Joe Mauer.

I traded for him then trained him up to a A contact, 4 TRJ, A power, D speed, A arm, B field, A e res. Amazing what practice can do.

well, I wouldn't consider him the best, but Scott Rolen has 3 A's, power, fielding, and arm str.
The problem about trading A-Rod for Miguel Cabrera is that He's a CONTACT hitter and won't get as much homeruns. Omar Vizquel has A fielding and arm str, but C power, C contact.

That isn't a problem for me because I feel power is very overrated and in this game it usually comes with horrible a BA. It's not like a-rod is going to be going .300 with 50 HR in this game.

yea thats true power is the most overrated stat in terms of hitting for instance i was playing in season mode as the red sox and ortiz hit 30 HR's in about 20 sim games

True, but on a bad expansion team, he makes a good DH.

Mauer gets expensive, though. McCann didn't really have his salary get much over 1000 for 9 of the 10 seasons - and by then, it's real easy to train up a catcher from the draft.

Placido Polanco from the tigers. he rarely errors. has great contact. doesn't quiet have the power. dude he is so good

McCann is the best bargain catcher in the game, for his stats/price.

Perzinski (spelling, the whitesox catcher), is the only catcher i could find with the 'Trash Talk' ability, he's probably up there as the most helpful pitcher's catcher.

Giambi for first/DH. He is way over-powered and can hit well over 100 home runs a season on normal mode. Plus, with a little training, he can be an OK fielder. I used my success mode Lou Gherig (with blue hair of course) as a first base man with the Yanks and Giambia as a DH as Lou has the ability "Golden Glover". He still have D arm strength, E fielding, and C fielding error because I thought none of those mattered after golden glover. Hey, it was my first guy.

For 3B I think it is Zimmerman from Washington.

con--C
Pwr--B
run--c
arm--b
field--c
er res--b
traj--3

A very solid player with a good arm for 3b. add in the fact that he is only 23? and you have a long term solution at 3b. i always pick him up and he normally hits: 280avg 20+hr 80rbi he is solted in at 4 or 5, 6 the slowest, on my roster.

Ichiro is a very good player. If you look past his salary, his stats BARELY deplete over the 10 years.
If I was going to choose a team based on high stats with no player improvement-


SP-C.C Sabathia
SP-Roy Halladay
SP-Chien Ming Wang
SP-Hamels
SP-Randy Johnson
SM-Success mode player
LR-Success mode player
MR-Scott Proctor
MR-Jenson Davis
MR-Success mode player
SM-Hideki Okajima
CL-Takashi Saito


Fielders
C-Brian Mcann
C-Kelly Shoppach
DH-Ryan Howard
1B-Lance Berkman
2B-Robinson Cano
3B-Alex Rodriguez (Or, if too expensive, trade for Miguel Cabrera)
SS-Micheal Young/Jimmy Rollins/Omar Visquel
IF-Ryan Garko
LF-Carlos Lee
CF-Ichiro Suzuki
RF-Andruw Jones
OF-Ben Francisco

Personaly I like Ryan Freel he is a good starter or if you don't need a starter he can play just about anywhere hes fast with good fielding and arm strength not too old either he would last about 3-5 years without depletion

As good as Lance Berkman is, again I have to stress how perfect Giambi is for homers. Literally you can get a home-run with him 1/3-1/2 of the time. It's unbelievable. I tried playing a game with him on powerful mode and the homers still came (I'm on All-star mode with my success team. I wish they'd let you switch levels in mid-season because I'm winning 95% of my games).

True, but when simulated Giambi goes .200 with 30 homers.
Mccan is erratic-he'll either hit 13 homers with a .278 or 23 with .290.
I had Scott Proctor get 18 wins once.
Howard isn't good simulated....he went .275 with 37 homers...
Andruw Jones had a lower BA but more hr's and RBI's.