Right now I'm in a single season 1987 progressive, where I'm using 1b Glen Davis (B/C at 1st nothing at 2b) at 2b part time to take advantage of his hot bat.

He's started 19 games at 2nd (26 at 1st): 168 innings .957%. But: 180ab's 15hr 49rbi .324avg 1.000ops. So, like you, am giving up some defense for good O.

My other option was starting Neifi Perez. He would have been solid in the field, but had no bat, especially compared to a .300 30 home run hitter. Good Luck, hopefully your experiment can be just as successful.

We're 69 games in (40-29)and in the Division and Wild Card hunt. I really am tempting fate here.

Have R.Ramirez and Foley splitting time at short, moving Samuel (B/B+ only rating)over when both get below 93%.
Have Samuel filling in for 3b Bell, when he gets below 93%.
Have G.Davis and K.Hernandez platooning at 1b, while Davis fills in for Samuel when he shifts to ss or 3rd.

So far it has all panned out. But man, that's alot of micromanaging. I have been hurt far more by Power (0-5) as a starter and Berenguer (6 losses and 4 bs) as my ex-closer & current setup man.

I am gonna bump this thread, if anyone has any interesting OOP success or miserable failure stories, feel free to tell them here.  Also, stats are always fun 

My 1987 team finished w/ 96 wins and took the WC, 5 games behind 1st place Cleve.
We took the 1st round from a 108 win team, then ran into Cleve, who won 4-2 and then they lost in WS.

Here are the fielding stats from regular season:

Regular Season Fielding SimStats (Totals)
Player	SN	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	+	-	Fld%	RF
Yount, Robin	1987	CF	162	162	1,443.0	470	12	3	3	2	4	.994	3.01
McGee, Willie	1987	RF	160	160	1,345.7	287	5	5	1	10	1	.983	1.95
Bell, Buddy	1987	3B	151	146	1,319.0	131	313	9	22	0	8	.980	3.03
Gwynn, Tony	1987	LF	155	155	1,307.7	277	6	11	0	3	2	.963	1.95
Scioscia, Mike	1987	C	143	122	1,140.7	756	41	10	3	0	0	.988	6.29
Hernandez, Keith	1987	1B	139	113	1,080.0	1075	95	1	72	4	0	.999	9.75
Samuel, Juan	1987	2B	104	104	925.7	227	312	7	51	2	0	.987	5.24
Foley, Tom	1987	SS	119	71	732.0	171	242	18	40	0	16	.958	5.08
Davis, Glenn	1987	2B	52	52	465.3	123	123	7	13	0	3	.972	4.76
Ramirez, Rafael	1987	SS	64	46	375.0	76	112	9	20	0	4	.954	4.51
Davis, Glenn	1987	1B	49	49	351.7	354	35	1	21	1	1	.997	9.96
Samuel, Juan	1987	SS	45	45	336.0	68	102	11	7	0	3	.939	4.55
Trevino, Alex	1987	C	44	40	302.3	189	11	3	1	0	0	.985	5.95
Dotson, Richard	1987	P	38	0	235.3	9	16	0	2	0	0	1.000	.96
Rawley, Shane	1987	P	62	0	217.3	4	8	0	0	0	0	1.000	.50
Rhoden, Rick	1987	P	36	0	201.3	5	10	1	0	0	0	.938	.67
Sutton, Don	1987	P	37	0	184.3	6	12	0	0	0	0	1.000	.88
Krukow, Mike	1987	P	40	0	140.7	9	5	0	0	0	0	1.000	.90
Power, Ted	1987	P	43	0	120.3	5	7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.90
Gross, Greg	1987	LF	37	2	96.3	15	0	0	0	0	1	1.000	1.40
Berenguer, Juan	1987	P	70	0	94.3	1	2	1	0	0	0	.750	.29
Samuel, Juan	1987	3B	13	13	94.0	10	19	2	1	0	3	.935	2.78
Smith, Lonnie	1987	RF	36	0	71.0	13	0	5	0	0	0	.722	1.65
Sisk, Doug	1987	P	63	0	63.0	2	2	0	0	1	0	1.000	.57
Hammaker, Atlee	1987	P	19	0	54.7	3	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.66
Hernandez, Keith	1987	2B	5	5	43.7	13	14	3	2	0	1	.900	5.56
Sosa, Elias (P)	2010	P	44	0	43.0	0	6	1	1	0	0	.857	1.26
Smith, Lonnie	1987	LF	5	5	36.0	6	1	0	0	1	1	1.000	1.75
Palmer, David	1987	P	24	0	35.3	3	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.02
Landrum, Bill	1987	P	12	0	23.7	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.14
Havens, Brad	1987	P	21	0	18.7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.48
Gwynn, Tony	1987	RF	2	2	17.3	4	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.08
Trevino, Alex	1987	3B	2	2	16.0	3	4	1	1	0	0	.875	3.94
Gross, Greg	1987	1B	7	0	11.3	5	2	0	0	0	1	1.000	5.56
Cadaret, Greg	1987	P	15	0	11.0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.64
Davis, Glenn	1987	3B	1	1	9.0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.00
Gross, Greg	1987	RF	7	0	9.0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1.000	2.00
McGee, Willie	1987	2B	1	1	8.3	3	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.32
Ramirez, Rafael	1987	3B	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
McGee, Willie	1987	LF	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
Foley, Tom	1987	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
TEAM TOTALS	--	--	2031	1296	12,987.0	4329	1528	109	263	25	50	.982	--

I don't normally plan to play players OOP, but in Progressives things happen that require out-of the box moves.
I must admit, I really do enjoy the strategy part of playing players in non-rated positions.

After the last update, I actually hope certain players are not rated at some secondary positions.
A D-D- rated 1bman tends to hurt more than a D D 3rd baseman playing OOP and not rated at 1st.
But that's just my observation...

Since we are talking OOP... anyone want to hazard a guess as to how a C/B+ OF will do at 1B?

I don't know for sure, but i am guessing a C or C- fielder with C or so range.   Again, that is just my guess, but i would not at all be surprised if he performed much better.  I am in quite a few progressive leagues and there have been plenty of times i have had to play average to below average outfielders at 1B with little problem.

he'll do fine....  he'll play like a C-/B 1b or something close to that

Posted by eastvanmungo on 12/6/2010 8:02:00 PM (view original):
Since we are talking OOP... anyone want to hazard a guess as to how a C/B+ OF will do at 1B?

2 seasons ago I played Yaz62 (C-/B at OF, unrated at 1B) at first... 162 games, 5 minus plays and 8 errors.

Then last season I played Yaz63 (B-/B- at OF, unrated at 1B) at first... 154 games, 6 errors and 15 minus plays.

In other words, you won't notice much of a difference.

I'm have a dilemma in a prog that I'm not sure of. I have:

2B: Dave Cash (B+/A-)
3B: Graig Nettles (B+/A)

I need to construct a middle infield out of those guys. At first I was thinking of moving Cash to SS and Nettles to 2B and take a smaller hit at two places, but now looking at it again just moving Nettles to short for the one bigger hit is better in general? Does anyone have/remember the % penalties of shifting and moving up the D spectrum?