Best 3B outside chipper
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Honestly I think Big Ed Matthews is better than Chipper. For me he is anyway. Then, believe it or not, I roll with Derby Todd Frazier. Dude has been great!!!
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For me I find defense to be random at 3b especially (Gary Sheffield can make a diving catch then Evan Longoria can get the animation where the ball rolls under the glove). So I just run Sheffield for the bat
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If not chipper it's Sheffield, embrace the nukes.
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Killebrew. I don't hit for the highest average with him, but he does big time damage when he connects.
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Sheffield's bat is too hot for him to move from 3B for me.
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Run your CAP at 3rd
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Been rolling with prestige Rhyno and like it. Nice pop, defense, and speed. Love Sheff too as well as Killer.
It’s really hard to take killer out but I platoon him with Babe in big situations sometimes even though Babe takes vs lefties. If they bring in a new pitcher and men are on base I’ll swap him out sometimes. Killer is amazing.
To be clear... Chipper stopped hitting for me after prestige lol. Dropped to .250 BA.
Haven’t tried Brett or Schmitt as I like to get as many 100 + power hitters as I can in.
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George Brett
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Top 5 3B IMO :
- Josh Donaldson
- Prestige Gary Sheffield
- Chipper
- Jose Ramirez (I use him at 2B)
- Eddie Matthews or George Brett.
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I got All-Star Miguel Cabrera on my squad right now, best 3B I have currently. Glove not as great, I just have him for the bat. He hasn't made any errors yet, though!
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Mike Schmidt or Gary Sheffield if you can handle his defense.
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@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Shef isn’t a serviceable defender at 3rd (strong arm doesn’t make up for the fact that he has no range and can barely field a routine grounder right at him) he gets hidden in Left or a bench bomber.
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@KILLERPRESENCE4 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Shef isn’t a serviceable defender at 3rd (strong arm doesn’t make up for the fact that he has no range and can barely field a routine grounder right at him) he gets hidden in Left or a bench bomber.
Interesting, my perspective is different on this. I'm not sacrificing defense in the OF, I'll take the garbage reactions and my chances at third. It's worked out for me this entire game cycle.
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@DeadPhish1976 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Agreed. I think his D there is actually pretty solid too.
His numbers aren’t too far off from chipper. And has a much better arm. His reaction time and range sucks tho.
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@Jeviduty said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@KILLERPRESENCE4 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Shef isn’t a serviceable defender at 3rd (strong arm doesn’t make up for the fact that he has no range and can barely field a routine grounder right at him) he gets hidden in Left or a bench bomber.
Interesting, my perspective is different on this. I'm not sacrificing defense in the OF, I'll take the garbage reactions and my chances at third. It's worked out for me this entire game cycle.
More power to you, I on the other hand have had too many situation that he couldn’t handle to not be concerned every single time the ball is hit in his general vicinity. I mean, when I first unlocked him and used him in an events game he muffed a 100 bounce dribbler that was hit right at him with buster posey’s world class 40 speed humping it down the first base line. That’s just the most egregious situation that I’ve had with him. There have been numerous others that just make me shake my head. And events don’t mean anything to me, had that happened in a RS game or tournament game I would’ve tossed my controller in the garbage.
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@KILLERPRESENCE4 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Jeviduty said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@KILLERPRESENCE4 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Shef isn’t a serviceable defender at 3rd (strong arm doesn’t make up for the fact that he has no range and can barely field a routine grounder right at him) he gets hidden in Left or a bench bomber.
Interesting, my perspective is different on this. I'm not sacrificing defense in the OF, I'll take the garbage reactions and my chances at third. It's worked out for me this entire game cycle.
More power to you, I on the other hand have had too many situation that he couldn’t handle to not be concerned every single time the ball is hit in his general vicinity. I mean, when I first unlocked him and used him in an events game he muffed a 100 bounce dribbler that was hit right at him with buster posey’s world class 40 speed humping it down the first base line. That’s just the most egregious situation that I’ve had with him. There have been numerous others that just make me shake my head. And events don’t mean anything to me, had that happened in a RS game or tournament game I would’ve tossed my controller in the garbage.
I have also had Sheffield boot routine ground balls multiple times, but he's also hit clutch bombs for me as well, so I keep running him out there lol.
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Harmon is the man as long as you can live with his slow feet. He hits bombs but also hits into a lot of double plays.
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@KILLERPRESENCE4 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
@Hikes83 said in Best 3B outside chipper:
Only place to play Sheffield
Shef isn’t a serviceable defender at 3rd (strong arm doesn’t make up for the fact that he has no range and can barely field a routine grounder right at him) he gets hidden in Left or a bench bomber.
I hear you but I’d rather he boot the odd grounder that turns into a single as opposed to something in the OF that turns into a double or triple.
His Prestige card is hitting .421 with 21HRs in 145AB (most on HOF but some on AS). I can’t justify taking his bat out.
15 of those HRs are versus righties and hitting .442 against them. But yes his fielding percentage is a paltry .974
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Anyone run Thome at 3rd? Thinking about trying him out.
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Currently, I swap between Mike Schmidt, Chipper, Jackie Robinson at 3rd in a secondary, or Hornsby at 3rd as a secondary.
