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I'd like to take back the statement I made earlier about lower round draft picks being useless. I so far have never seen any of my own draft picks become stars but I have this player on my team who's won the triple crown the last two seasons in a row and MVP 5 out of the last 6 seasons. I went to look back at his player history button and saw that he was drafted in the 3rd round, 72nd overall pick by Chicago. When I select in the 3rd round and even the second round I'll be lucky to even find any 3 blue star position players left. He played three full seasons in the majors and 6 seasons in the minors before I traded for him because he was the best at his position at the time. I just assumed that he was a first rounder when in fact he was a 3rd rounder. I'm not sure if the computer randomly selects computer managed teams and boosts up random players to give each team some stars but if this also happens on human managed teams as well then stars are available in the lower rounds. 3rd is a lower round for me because I use only 5 rounds especially since most position players at that point carry only 2 stars. I have seen some players who I put on my team with just one star who had A defensive ratings and 0 hitting and saw them develop 2 stars or more several times with pretty decent hitting (6+). That 3rd rounder is 32 years old now and is getting better, he hit .383 (249 hits), 65 homers, 161 runs, 198 RBIs, 1.176 OPS, .742 SLG, and stuck out only 14 times in 650 ABs. The season before he put up similiar numbers as well. He's the best player on my team and the only starter that isnt a high number one.
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