I''ll second Lamb. Matt Joyce was great. Jedd Gyorko was a 40-50 hr guy. Liked Robbie Groosman, too. Wilder Difo was a cheap 2b who gave decent numbers. Dexter Fowler was good at cf. Corey Seager at ss. JD Martinez. Stephen Drew. Wasn't that big on defense this year...
Cameron Maybin always out produced his salary. Schugel and Britton also out performed their high salaries. Those were my faves. Honorable mention to Iwakuma and Profar.
Generally speaking good hitters with poor defense (Maybin, Joyce, etc) will outperform their salary offensively vs similarly priced players with better defense. That is not surprising.
I doubt very much that people are not factoring the poor defense in saying they liked a particular card. They may be wrong about that evaluation of course...but it would be silly for someone to say they liked Joyce or Gyorko without factoring in the bad defense. Of course they could mean they liked the card at DH, too.