Best Overall Theme Team
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I’ve completed the Live Series and am looking to starting buying S1 cards and build a competitive and fun theme team. Besides the Rangers (who I’ve been using) with Lance Lynn and Joey Gallo as captains, what other team has the best diamonds that can fill close to every spot? I’m thinking the Dodgers or Yankees but wanted to see who y’all were using. I still need to open the last pitcher and hitter captain choices from the XP path and I don’t want to make a bad decision. Appreciate the input!
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The Dodgers are awesome. Joc is pretty weak against lefties. But the boost given to those diamond players, it's well worth it
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Offensively the Mets have low diamonds for every spot except catcher, where you are stuck with a silver Alvarez
Cornerstone Senga, Seaver, and Captain Thor are fine but good luck past that
Certainly not the best option, but its playable 3/5 games
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I've been switching between Dodgers & Reds. Dodgers are great if you have live series collection but Reds are pretty fun too. Suarez hits bombs & Sunny is surprisingly good, plus they seem to keep getting guys supercharged. & Obvi Candelario is a stud.
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Yankees! Especially if you completed LS and have 99 The Babe!
91 Mickey Mantle CF (SHB) Boosted to 97 with P3 + Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
99 Babe Ruth SP/DH (LHB) Already 99 but also P4 + Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
93 Aaron Judge RF (RHB) Boosted to 97 with P3 + Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
92 Roderick Arias SS (SHB) Boosted to 97 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
92 Juan Soto LF (LHB) Boosted to 97 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
91 Alphonso Soriano 2B (RHB) Boosted to 95 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
92 Oswaldo Cabrera 3B (SHB) Boosted to 97 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
87 Don Mattingly 1B (LHB) Boosted to 95 with P2 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts
89 Gary Sanchez C (RHB) Boosted to 95 with P2 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boostsBench has 85 Paul O'Neill (boosted to 90), 85 Derek Jeter (92), 87 Spencer Jones (93), and 90 Bernie Williams (94)
SPs:
99 Babe Ruth (Boosted with P4 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts)
90 Gerrit Cole (Boosted to 96 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts)
87 Whitey Ford (Boosted to 94 with P1 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts)
87 Nestor Cortes (Boosted to 94 with Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts)
85 Andy Pettitte (Boosted to 94 with P4 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts) He has a 99 available'Pen not too bad with 90 Andrew Miller (boosted to 96 with P2 and Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts) and 84 Mariano Rivera (boosted to 91 with Hitting & Pitching Captain boosts).
Captain boosts: +15 CONR, +15 POWL, +15 VIS, +15 BCLT, +10 H/9, +10 K/9, +10 PCLT, and +10 BB/9
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Easily Phillies - boosts in all the right spots and great players now and coming up soon
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I mean at some point when the angels have some more non live series, with both captains they have +15 to all 4 major hitting stats but in terms of right now, the rangers seem to be one of the best
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I'm rocking the Greg Maddox/Ozzie smith (SD) combo for my boosted squad right now. both all the way up, it's fun.
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The Brewers are pretty cool with Yeli, Hoskins, Chourio, Sexson and Grandal; good L/R/S balance. If they ever get flashbacks of Hader, Burnes plus Yount and the Woody/Tellez captains, they’re fun.
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Yankees are the best but you have to do 16/16 for Mattingly & Ford to really maximize the boosts. Ruth, Cole & Ford are all really good pitchers when fully boosted, Can’t wait to add Petite!
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I only put together a Mets theme team for show. Maybe if the Lindors and McNeil's get it together they may get better cards, but I doubt it. Their bullpen and rotation are extremely weak. If anyone can win online with a Mets theme team, then more power to you. I pitched a no-hitter with Captain Senga and a Mets team, but it was only on Veteran. Not much to crow about there.
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@The_Bane_Event
In addition to the ones listed above (especially Dodgers and Yankees), Miami is pretty good. Their Pitching Cap Nen not being in your Starting Rotation, is a plus. In addition, you get Luzardo and Alacantra boosted to help fill out your Starting five. Furthermore, Miami's Santon and Burger work will also work with Buxton Cap... So you could even use use that one, along with the Miami Nen Pitching Cap if you wanted. -
@TheGoaler said in Best Overall Theme Team:
I only put together a Mets theme team for show. Maybe if the Lindors and McNeil's get it together they may get better cards, but I doubt it. Their bullpen and rotation are extremely weak. If anyone can win online with a Mets theme team, then more power to you. I pitched a no-hitter with Captain Senga and a Mets team, but it was only on Veteran. Not much to crow about there.
I mean, its probably the best team in their division at least. If the Braves are all up on inside edge they can be better with all their LS diamonds though
Its not going to compete with teams like the Yankees or Dodgers, nor should it be expected to (especially as their historical best team has no legend representation outside of Carter, who doesnt have a card yet. In general the Mets legend representation, like many teams, is extremely poor. Even from the 90's and 00s)
87 Jett Williams
87 Lindor
89 Clifford
87 JD Davis
87 Delgado
89 Wright
89 Grandy
85 Alonso
79 AlvarezCards play higher with the captain boost obviously, JD does not play like an 87 in the first place, and my early experience with Clifford is that he is great. No base 90+ is what is holding them back (but they all get there with captains outside of Alvarez), and the weakest hitters all have solid power at least.
88 Senga
91 Seaver
87 Thor
87 Sproat
Gold Matz or Silver Manea87 Diaz
89 Ottovino
Silver Raley
Then it gets roughThe rotation is deeper than most teams, and all teams have a bullpen problem
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Braves theme team using Matzek 15/15 and Buxton hitting captain 11/11...Excellent!
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@Izameek said in Best Overall Theme Team:
Braves theme team using Matzek 15/15 and Buxton hitting captain 11/11...Excellent!
Really! Hate to ask, but what's your lineup and rotation?
I've used Riley and Olsen with the BB, but not sure who else...
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@SuntLacrimae50 any braves player works for Matzek but a lot of them also work for Buxton due to their vision
Dylan Crews
Mike Trout
Tyler O'Neill
Austin Riley
Hank Thompson
Sean Murphy
Matt Olson
Dansby Swanson
Byron Buxton
Blaze Alexander
Julio Pablo Martinez
Forrest Wall
David Justice
