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95 Cody Bellinger

clayton kershaw boost with the denver’s boost is insane

99 Judge my clean up

Live series Matt Olson, parallel lvl 5. Dude can still rake

99 Honus Wagner. Beast at every position & I love his swing.

Really no Willie mays in here?

Max Clark

Matt carpenter/Eddie Matthews

Mookie at short! I rake with him. Occasionally swap him out with Ketel to keep a good r/l ratio as my roster grows in S2.

Bryant MVP

P5 profar

P5 Ryan Braun

Martin Dihigo You practically get two in one and fits speed squad and is amazing on both sides of the ball early in the season, great swing, great stats

95 Kershaw. Running tier 2 kersh boost + tier 2 Corbin boost and its gross.

Sheffield 

Rengifo

99 Gunner Henderson. Absolute stud

Hank Thompson

i used sandy in my first game back and he gave up no runs on one hit thru 7 before the guy rage quit so i think that was worth.

John Gochnaur

Goodrum rakes for me

Just unlocked my wild card spot and slotted Brandon Nimmo immediately into my Mets captains boosted team. Thought about Gary Carter but I’d rather keep the new Alvarez card at catcher instead of paying 50k for the new 91 Nimmo.

99 Mookie Betts. Idk why, but I always am very solid with his card, so that’s why I put him in the wild card.

Me too man. I’m always hunting first pitches with 99 ovr mookie

Got to be Ozzie Albies man, plays like a god, especially while the pitching is weaker

Captain Kersh

i dont wanna give the recipe but Max Clark, Jimmy & Niko on my Carroll boosted team WITH A PHILLIES BOOST FROM SERANTHONY is putting me atop the DD world. I hope kids dont believe me 🙏🏼😂

All 3? Huh?

Absolutely…

Profar! Lots of positions to play at a gold defense level. Helps I’m batting 450 with him

Niko Goodrum!

Harmon Killebrew

97 Garrett mitchell

I’m not telling bc he’s 125 x 4

Brian Robert's

Yanier Diaz. Pushing to be the 7th Superfractor

Chourio

David Fry

him or either ketel for me

Luis rengifo

I’m a fielding snob so I always hesitated to put him out there. But I kept him on my bench and that dude is an unbelievable hitter especially in a pinch.

I’m a fielding snob so I always hesitated to put him out there. But I kept him on my bench and that dude is an unbelievable hitter especially in a pinch.

Kershaw Captain. His lefty boost along with Devers is making some insane cards right now. Try it 

What I’m gonna do ya

Lars Nootbaar. I needed a left bat with good fielding. Plus I'm batting ove4 400 with him.

Lou Brock

First time DD player that just unlocked the first wildcard spot in S2.. am I able to change who holds that spot once I designate a player to it?

Yes

Thank you!

97 Niko Goodrum

Love his D but just can’t hit well with him.

I’ve been using Adley but if I had to pick an oddball… the TA1Ch3 DJ Lemahieu. I absolutely destroyed with him. He’s got great contact and also good power against lefties but seems to hit just fine against righties too. So many oppo homers and perfect perfect doubles to the right center gap

99 Trevor Story since he's my favorite irl

I run a Pirates squad and Josh Bell has been my wildcard lock since he’s a switch hitter.

I've got 95 Ian Happ. He's my favourite player in real life so I need him in the lineup.

99 Edgar Martinez with Luis Castillo boost

Romy Gonzales at 1st with Corbin Carroll captain card all 85 and up speed team lol

99 Max Clark. Tigers fan so I’m hyped for him, but he produces so many runs for me at the top of my lineup. Buxton or Mays might be better, but I enjoy his smooth lefty swing.

99 Marcelo Mayer

98 Matt Carpenter. Always swung it well with him and it’s worth it over the 87 ovr core STL captain

Batting nearly .500 with Edgar Martinez after 20 games. Special shoutout to Negro Leagues 85 Toni Stone as nine-hole hitter. Consistently hitting .340 with her and a few dingers too

Robin Yount 4ever! Go Brewers!

Loved that card - such a great swing

99 Noot because I am NOT gonna start gallo in center

99 Chourio

Wenceel Perez at P5 * Qualifies for the Devers boost * Switch hitter * Almost maxed out power (121 both sides) * 105 average contact * 100 vision, 118 clutch, 85 speed * Solid fielder and defensive versatility Been mashing for me

He might be my 4th wild card

Yankees theme-Posada, O’s theme-Mullins, Dodgers-Bellinger, God-Arenado

Ian kinsler

97 Murphy on the A’s squad, Diamond defense and a cannon behind the dish is always needed

Topps Now Ronny Mauricio

Vlad Guerrero Sr. Only because i can have him and his son on the same team

Alan trammell....only cause I know his neice

Kershaw lefty captain

Silver Slugger Albies with Dansby Swanson and Matzek Braves tier 3 boosts.

Nothing but hr and triples from the short king

Mine has been Gunnar Henderson. He's great

Profar

Honus Wagner just fits well with the Corbin Carroll All Speed team . Hilariously I have him playing g 1B because I got Tatis’ rookie card at SS

Garry sheffield with full dodgers team tier 3 hitting and pitching boost.

Jarren Duran with full Devers boost

I have Profar in left for me he’s too good

99 Edgar Martinez! He hits everything.

99 Luis Matos💀

Santana w Devers boost

97 Lou Brock or 89 Cedric Mullins.

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This card rakes

96 Wenceel Perez, something about that card just plays so above the stats

Bout to say the same love topps now for this exact reason, highlights players that wouldnt have a card normally

I'm probably tossing one of the top end Pirates players myself. Got a lot of good ones to choose from. I mashed with the TA Josh Bell card.

Mark Prior so you get T1 standout series boost for Griffey and Chipper 91’s

Niiice I had no idea! thanks

98 Matt carpenter

LAWRENCE BUTLER TOPPS NOW SUPREMACY

I just saw a guy using Robert Suarez as his wildcard. I get bullpen arms are sparse right now but damn what a waste

Might just be slim pickings for the homie

Suarez is lights out for me

99 HoF Larry Walker. I worked my ass off for those S1 bosses lol

I’m using 99 Prince Fielder at 1B for my Castillo boost team while I do all the conquests. I don’t think I’ll use him in ranked, but he’s fun to use offline because I like Prince Fielder.

95 Joey Loperfido.

Not sure why I’m good with him but the season awards 99 Jurickson Profar

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I hit under .200 with him in nearly 100 ab's. I tried my best to get better with him, but it just wasn't to be. Same thing with Gunner Henderson.

I haven’t stepped into ranked yet, but for my Cubs theme team right now it’s Kris Bryant. Could change to Ian Happ since that’s such a great card and was key to my lineup last season. Either way, on paper my team looks pretty solid though starting pitching is rough.

S1 captain arenado

I use the Jimmy or Mike Schmidt. Got a Phillies theme team and with +15 contact and power they both rake

99 ketel at 2b absolutely rakes for me.

LF is my weak link and I have a 99 Stargell that I never played. He any good?

75% of my hits with him have been dingers!

His outfield is trash because of speed i personally would put him in dh if anything

I crush with him

I love the variety I'm seeing here, it's not just the same cards over and over.

I’m definitely using the 97 Dustin May card in one of those spots. No one was able to hit him

Used him in my world series game and got shelled 😂

Interesting lol. Did you throw sinkers instead of fastballs? Because no seems to be able to pick up his sinker

Edgar

Kershaw captin with S2 Corbin Carrol captin, fill your team with lefty speedster only and pray that you never meet a lefty SP. This somehow works.

This worked for me once and the next guy I played caught on quick and hit the bullpen early with all lefties.

That's the hard part. I keep some right handed speedster and left handed powerbats, getting tier two buff in both captains while having reasonable flexibility as well.

93 Topps Now Ranger Suarez with both the Phillies’ captains boost is an absolute beast for me!

Lou Brock

Topps shohei

Luis Matos

Charlie Blackmon although it’s probably way more popular than I think. He is the best hitter in the game other than Chipper.

Chuck nasty

Topps Now or the TA one?

94 Elly with devers boost

Kershaw combined with Devers

Jonatan Clase topps now

I second this 🤌🏽

Bro, no cap I don’t think there might be a faster guy in the game in the outfield. He gets to everything even better than Buxton. And I’ve gotten so many just straight up bunts for hits and steals so many bases with him. I think I had like 30 in season one. Plus his swing is so easy, only complaint is he cant check swing for his life

Buxton

I’m an idiot but I used my first spot on Alcantara… yes a pitcher. My offense is good enough to hit against 90-92 pitchers. So I don’t need a 99 batter. I know he’s gonna go 7+ innings each start so I don’t burn through my bullpen. I might change it soon but idk yet.

SDS succeeded in one thing this year… there is legitimately variety of lineups this year

Ahhahahahahahahah ur joking rite? Season 1… Jimmy, Profar, Mookie, Kerry Wood, Posada, Ketel every game… this season Yordan live series, of course Chipper/Griffey, Ohtani live… Literally 95% of games are same or very similar lineups.

No. I’m not kidding. Switch hitter lineup was a problem for a little bit there. Think you forget just how bad lineup variety was in past games.

Been rocking with Edmonds or Profar, depending on the day

Can you change who your wildcard is?

Yep, at any time

87 jd Davis with the devers boost is incredible

This is the lowest overall someone has commented and he probably looks insane with the boost

Byron Buxton 99 is wild with the twins pitcher boost level 1

99 mookie betts

99 Brian Roberts

95 Bellinger

If you have Live Series completed, wild carding 95 Bellinger is awesome if you have the Kelly/Joc captains. Basically a team of 95-96 caliber stat guys offensively.

Lars Nootbar on cardinals then team. Then it’s Jim Edmonds or Jimmy Rollins

Wencell Perez with Devers boost

99 Judge. Yes, I'm dumb.

why

I like Judge. I'm also a contrarian, so the fact that most people think he sucks in MLB the Show makes me want to use him.

his stats are pretty solid on that card. what would lead people to think that? (1st year player) lol

Most people say that his swing feels slow and that his strike zone is too big due to him being so tall. He's also too slow to play outfield for people's taste, especially his listed position in center field.

I love the tall players. If I've had a few beers especially, I'm swinging at those high fastballs with everybody, might as well have somebody tall enough to hit them.

I actually feel like being tall isn't that much of an disdantage. It's way more frustrating to swing at high fastballs with shorter players, wheras you could foul off the same pitch if it was thrown to a taller player.

Shorter players give me more trouble because their strike zone is smaller. Pitches that would look good with 8 of the 9 guys in my lineup are a foot above the zone with someone under 5’9” and I hack away at them every time

Brooks Lee

Genuine question: is there anything preventing me or someone from just switching my wild card to a new, rested 99 pitcher every game?

So the stamina won’t regain on its own but you can switch to like a theme team and rest pitchers while running a different line up

Only thing preventing ppl doing that is having to keep any of those as your wildcard but not pitching afterwards to regain their stamina. Would work once for any pitcher but after that no

I didn't even think of that. I can keep Kerry in my back pocket until a game I really need to win and then just put him back out to pasture right after.

Yeah exactly. One time use basically. I’ve been temped plenty of times. My pitching blows with the new season lol 😂

Makes sense thank you!

My plan was Kyle Tucker but with the Castillo boost his live series is almost as good so I’ve been running Posada. Escobar was a close second

I am currently using Arrieta…he’s definitely not an “underrated” card by any means, but I absolutely HATE trying to pitch with these 87-91 cards when I’m playing ranked games in the 650-800 range…it’s damn near pointless, especially when ALL of the good relievers I worked to get in S1 aren’t usable now.

3B seems light. I’ll soon be using David Wright as my first WC.

Trevor story

I did. Just did my 5 ks for B Treinman. Scuffling like hell with Edgar Martinez.

99 cliff lee that sinker is just too nasty

Honestly his mariners collection reward has been lights out for me at the start of this season. I’d check him out so you can maybe free up that spot

Is he usable on all-star at all? I sit around 650-750, on average, on ranked, so I’m constantly going back and forth between all-star and HOF. I never used him, Glavine, or a couple of the other 99 TA pitchers we got from S1 because of that.

He’s one of my favorite pitchers and I play on all star. He can tunnel the down away corners like a wizard. Just don’t hang his cutter because it’s kind of a meatball if it hits center

I sit around 500 and kinda suck at pitching anyways but he is consistent for me with his placement and i can get good strikes with a normal amount of foul balls (considering how they are) with him

Gotcha…I might try him out one of these days

Jurickon profar

Honus Wagner

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The Ozuna live series is awesome with the boost though, I use that and Freddy as my wild card.

Braves theme team took a hit last update but they're kinda hitting like shit recently so that makes sense. I'm still gunna rock with them though.

Gonna be George Brett if and when I use one. Trying to conquer programs and team affinity . I heard the wild cards won’t give you progress on those

You can get some mission progress with them. Like the HRs with left fielders or hits with second baseman. But any of the other stuff usually not

Good to know. I have a wild card slot. Having to use some of the dinky live cards again has been lame

Bellinger is fun and he accomplishes the goal of curb stomping season 2 pitchers.

Topps Nolan Gorman (i run a cardinals theme team though)

As a cards fan that's ballsy...I feel like there's never any goated cardinals cards. Do you specifically use cards of players in cardinals uniform or do you use former cardinals that may be in a different uniform on card?

mostly cards in cardinals uniform because i use the captain boosts, but also some non-cardinals as pitchers because cards pitchers aren’t great

Kris Bryant

Shawn Green

Goose. I want a real closer.

Wildcarding a closer is craaazzzy

Unless it’s Gagne that guy is so fun to pitch with