Most Overrated Players

[RogueHominid]

In honor of the great thread on underrated players, I wanna know who on your team or on the teams you face regularly has a high rating but plays like crap.

In my Phillies franchise, it's Cliff Lee. For whatever reason, I can't seem to pitch an entire solid game with Lee. He'll dazzle for an inning or two and then hit these stretches where he can't seem to find the zone. It's so frustrating. I pitch with great consistency with Halliday and Hamels, but not Lee. Arrgghh!

[1andonly]

He's not on my team but I played with him before.

Billy Butler. He's a solid young player but I can't hit to save my life with him,

[GOBLUE_08]

Pedro Alvarez.... ive seen people mention having sucess with him, but he consistently hits like .230 for me and stays injured.

[kiz5]

Ryan Zimmerman, offensively.

Defensively, he's awesome. I really really struggle with him on O though.

[canes21]

Quote: Originally Posted by kiz5

Ryan Zimmerman, offensively. Defensively, he's awesome. I really really struggle with him on O though.

Got to disagree. Guy is the only reason I struggle against the Nats in franchise mode lol.

My vote goes to Billy Butler. Whenever I go against him in this game, he never shows up.

[moronn777]

Jon Lester, Daniel Bard, and Johnathan Papelbon....

[cardswin2006]

Nick Markaikis.

Against righties he's an 80 contact, 65 power, but I can't do either with him. When I swing for contact, occasionally I'll get a solid single, but I hit a lot of weak ground balls. When I swing for power, occasionally I'll get a solid smack into the gap, maybe even over the wall a few times a year, but inevitably I just fly out most of the time.

When I'm controlling him, I can't hit more than .250 and more than 12 HRs over the year. Luckily he has the 5 sim games in between for the CPU to boost his stats

[RogueHominid]

Quote: Originally Posted by moronn777

Jon Lester, Daniel Bard, and Johnathan Papelbon....

Interesting. I almost traded for Bard to bolster the pen in my Phillies franchise because his pitches looked just sick and he had the potential to grow into a closer, but the price was just a tad steep (they wanted a 4 star minor league pitcher). I went with the cheaper O'Flaherty instead. Maybe that was the right call .