Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Payton Henry is a pretty exciting young catching prospect. He was drafted in the 6th round (171st overall) by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2016 out of high school in Utah. He is a power bat and showed that tool off in Low-A when he hit .327/.380/.707 with 10 HR. What’s[…]
This is what I wrote about Rico Garcia in March 2015: Hawaii Pacific University, on Oahu, is probably most famous for it’s one Alumni that made the Majors, Benny Agbayani. Agbayani was drafted twice, in 1992 and 1993, both times by the Angels. He had a fine major league career: .806 OPS, 39[…]
A couple weeks ago I got a surprise envelope in the mail. The cards were from a consignment that finished roughly two years ago but was just now finding their way back to me in Hawaii. They were all players from the 2017 Cal Ripken League, a collegiate summer league.[…]
Luis Urias is one of the biggest prospects in baseball and expected to be the cornerstone of San Diego’s resurgence. He was having a really nice season in AAA this season, hitting .296/.398/.447 with 8 HR, The Padres rewarded him with a call-up this week to the big league club,[…]
Starling Heredia was one of the Dodgers biggers prospects coming into the 2018 season, but so far has struggled. In 229 at-bats between Rookie and Low-A ball, he is hitting .192/.260/.332 with 92 strikeouts to only 21 walks. He does have 7 HR, but unless he learns to make better[…]
Triston Casas was Boston’s first-round pick of the 2018 draft–26th overall. He was considered one of the best all-around batters in the draft. For a high school player, his bat is remarkably polished and has both plus power and plate discipline. There is not a lot to dislike. He might[…]
I know Johnny Field since, for a brief time, he was part of the Indians organization. The Tribe selected him off waivers in July 2019 from the Rays, but he was only with the organization until early August, when he selected again off waivers by the Twins. Considering the dumpster[…]
Kyle Nelson was drafted in the 15th round (462nd overall) by the Cleveland Indians in 2017 out of UC Santa Barbra. He has a pretty amazing college career and served as the UCSB closer during its memorable World Series run. Nelson has had an…amazing 2018. He opened the season in[…]
Matt LaPorta was the centerpiece of the 2008 Cleveland-Milwaukee deal that saw C.C. Sabathia leave Indians. I thought it was a good trade at the time, and it seems to have worked out despite LaPorta never really panning out. That’s because the PTBNL was Michael Brantley, who has had a[…]
Anderson Tejada was the Rangers #27 prospect coming to this season. His stock slipped a little after a rough season in 2017 at low-A, but it looks like he is back on track. This season in High-A he is hitting .255/.324/.435 with 130 K’s and 43 walks in 432 at-bats.[…]