What do you prefer, power or speed? I think that most people would agree hitting is the most important skill, so what's the second most? I think in this game they're pretty close with a slight edge to power because I feel that speed isn't very valuable from 1-6 but becomes a lot more valuable with a 7-9 rating because that's when a player can start to steal bases well. There really isn't much of a difference between 2 or 3 speed, but there's a bigger difference between 7 and 8 for example because the 8 runner can steal bases at a better rate. You wouldn't steal with a 2 or 3 guy, and the only differences between the 2 and 3 would be you only take an extra few bases on hits, beat out a double play or two, etc. If you have a 9 runner you can steal almost every time so it's really valuable and can take extra bases often. But you still will get thrown out sometimes which is the downside to a speed based player. Once you get to 3 power or so you can start to hit HRs and I prefer good hitters over base runners so I would go with that if I had to choose. If I had to choose between a player with 5 power and 1 speed or 1 power and 5 speed I would take the 5 power player every time. If they had 9 power and 9 speed that would be a tougher decision because of the stolen bases, but I'd probably still go with power.
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Power is the way to go...........