Attributes make no sense
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I’m a Yankee fan, so my examples or for players I know... I’m sure everyone has this feeling about their favorite players/teams.
Sometimes I see cards and the attributes make no sense at all. For example, for the 1987 Mattingly card, he slugged .587 vs rhp and .523 vs lhp, 4.6% hr per pa against right and 5.1% vs lefties. It makes no sense why he has such little power against left handed pitchers.
Another example is Lou Gehrig’s 1928 World Series card. He hit .545/.706/1.727 with 4 homers and a double in only 17 plate appearances! The double and one of the homers was against a LHP. That card should have insane attributes, but it’s very meh.
I’m not saying that we need these “god squad” type cards for Gehrig and/or Mattingly, but don’t say it’s a certain year/post season/half, if the attributes don’t match up to the performance in that time. I’d be fine with those mattingly and Gehrig numbers if they matched a time where they made sense, or were just veteran or rookie cards.
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We did get a veteran Chipper card from his MVP season last year. I agree that sometimes attributes don't make much sense but we know some sort of Signature Series Gehrig will show up later in the year with hitting that is where it should be. Mattingly I don't recall ever seeing a better version of which is a shame though they did give him that cheeky 3B secondary which I was surprised they even remembered/noticed on baseball reference
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