Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Very happy to add these two cards to my collection. Both Aaron Civale and Zach Plesac have played important roles on the Indians this season. The Indians rotation was a strength coming into the season, but the injury bug bit that squad hard. Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Danny Salazar, Mike[…]
Andrew Vaughn is a very good baseball player. This past June he was drafted 3rd overall by the Chicago White Sox out of Cal. This season at Cal he hit .374/.539/.704 with 60 walks compared to just 33 strikeouts. He also hit 15 home runs and has 50 career dingers,[…]
George Valera came into this season rated the Indians #5 prospect. The ranking was based heavily on his tools and a brief showing in the Arizona League in 2018, where he hit .333/.409/.556 with one home run before going down with an injury. This season he opened the year in[…]
Last season Roberto Perez was one of the worst regulars in all of baseball, hitting .168/.256/.263 with 2 HR. At the same time Yan Gomes, the Indians starting catcher, had a great year hitting .266/.313/.449 with 16 HR and getting his first All-Star selection. This past off-season the Indians[…]
CC Sabathia was the 20th overall pick of the 1998 draft, taken by the Cleveland Indians. In 1999 he opened the season in Low-A Mahoning Valley, but was only there for 19.2 innings, striking out 27, walking 12 and allowing 9 hits. He was quickly promoted to A-ball. 20 years[…]
Jason Castro is a former Hawaiian League player (2008 North Shore), so I like to follow his career. And he is having a very nice season, hitting .257/.331/.529 with 10 HR for the Twins. Good for an OPS+ of 125. Castro has one All-Star selection, back in 2013. That season[…]
Barret Barnes is having a nice season in AA, hitting .258/.381/.458 with 9 HR. The problem is that he is doing it as a 27-year-old. Barnes spent all of 2018 with the Sugar Land Skeeters, and Indy team. Barnes was originally a supplemental 1st round selection of the Pirates back[…]
Jose Berrios just made his second All-Star team, his second in a row. He deserves it. This season he is 8-5 with a 3.00 ERA/1.111 WHIP/151 ERA+ over 117 innings. He has only allowed 117 hits while striking out 104. Berrios has turned into one of the best pitchers in[…]
I lucked out a couple of years ago and was able to get two Manny Ramirez autographs knocked out at a private signing. I was lucky–Ramirez decided to leave the signing early and quite a few things didn’t get signed. Manny Ramirez is going to have a tough time getting[…]
I got this autograph while Sean Murphy was playing with the low-minors back in 2016. He was the A’s 3rd round pick in 2016, out of Wright State. Over the last couple of seasons, he has gone on to become one of the best catching prospects in the minors. Fangraphs[…]