Your franchise secret superstars?

[VoItage]

After completely tearing the cover off the ball with Justin Smoak the last couple years in franchise mode, I was wondering who your "secret superstars" are in your franchise?

I don't know what it is about Smoak. His attributes aren't all that special yet, but I crush the ball with him. Helps that he's a switch hitter, and I like his batting stance.

How about you?

[Heroesandvillains]

Great thread!!! Love it!!!

Brett Gardner .308, 2 HR, 22 RBI, 23 SB
Boone Logan 2.20 (ish) ERA. Pitching to a BA below .200 vs. lefties and righties!

Those were off the top of my head, so I'll edit this post later. They've both been beasts!!!!!

[bwoodring9]

Nate McLouth! He hits leadoff in my pirates franchise and is hitting .303 with 2 HR and 7 RBI through mid-May.

[seanjeezy]

I don't know if this counts since all I've really done is run test sims, but for some reason Chode Figgins is good every single time...

[h2oPr00f]

Going into my Mets franchise, i had ZERO plans of keeping Lucas Duda around.

That was until he decided to bat .315 with 15 bombs thru the end of June.

[UK0wnag3]

I have Ryan Roberts batting .290 with 5HR and 24RBI

[ILLICIT206]

Quote: Originally Posted by VoItage

After completely tearing the cover off the ball with Justin Smoak the last couple years in franchise mode, I was wondering who your "secret superstars" are in your franchise? I don't know what it is about Smoak. His attributes aren't all that special yet, but I crush the ball with him. Helps that he's a switch hitter, and I like his batting stance. How about you?

Smoak is great for me too! Anytime I pitcher leaves one up I crush it with him...his stance is great too, reminds me of David Wright's.

[rymflaherty]

I'm like 107 games through my first year with the Red Sox and so far it has to be Rich Hill (I've kept and used him as a Starter).

Doubront and Bard were awful to begin the year. Neither would last long into games so I needed to make some sort of move. Hill was performing best in AAA, so I gave him a chance.
I just hoped he could give 6 decent innings a game and figured he would be a placeholder (at best) until Dice-K was healthy. Well so far he is 6-2 with an Era just under 3. Granted he's feasted on some poor hitting teams....but it's much better than I was getting and he might currently be the best pitcher in my rotation.

Sadly, my anti-secret superstar is probably Pedroia. He's hitting like .245. He's my favorite player IRL, and this is the same thing that happened to me when I really got hooked on MLB the show 09'.....He really sucked for me then too. I hope he has a great year next season, or I'll have to make a very tough decision.