Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
I got this autograph back in 2016, when Kyle Tucker was with the Low-A 2016 Quad Cities River Bandits. 2015 1st Round pick out of high school in Tampa, Florida. He was taken fifth overall by the Astros. Had moved quickly through the system. In 2016 hit 285/.360/.438 between low and[…]
Andres Gimenez is one of the New York Mets top prospects coming into the 2018 season. Both BA and BP also tagged in the back end of their Top 100 lists, so he is a very well thought of young player. Last season he hit .265/.346/.349 with 4 HR in[…]
A bunch of autographs from last season have rolled in, which is always nice this time of the year. Carl Addison Wise was drafted in 2015 by the Blue Jays; 4th round out of College of Charleston. Wise cracked the Blue Jays Baseball America Top 30 list once, for the 2016[…]
Austen Williams played three seasons at Texas State before being drafted in the 6th round of the 2014 draft by the Nationals. Coming out of college he was projected to be a reliever. He has had some nice seasons in the minors, the highlight being his 2015 campaign when he[…]
The Houston Astros signed Harold Arauz as an international FA back in 2011 for $300K. He was 16 years old. He had a rough 2015 in Low-A. He ended the season with an 0-5 record, 6.79 ERA and allowing 72 hits in 51 innings. It was a terrible season. He joined the[…]
Sam Clay was drafted by the Twins in the 4th round of the 2014 draft out of Georgia Tech. Clay was a very good reliever while at Georgia Tech, though it was not clear if he would stick to the pen as a pro or transition into a starter. He had[…]
Why you remember So Taguchi: The St. Louis Cardinals signed So Taguchi as an international free agent in 2002. The 33-year-old Taguchi was a 10 year veteran of Japan Pacific League (JPPL). He was an All-Star in the JPPL, though he was not quite the hitter that Ichiro was. His biggest[…]
Tyler Straub played four seasons of college ball (2013-2016), split between North Central Texas College (North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference) and Texas-San Antonio (Conference USA). He was a very good hitter in college. His senior year he hit .282/.342/.366 with 2 HR. It should be noted that most of those numbers[…]
Brett Kennedy was drafted out of Fordham in the 11th round of the 2015 draft by the San Diego Padres. His numbers in college were solid: over three seasons in the Atlantic 10 he would go 15-17 with a 3.73 ERA over 222 IP. He would allow 236 hits,[…]
Victor Robles is one of my favorite players in the National League–and easily my favorite Washinton National. I got the top card in 2016 and the bottom card on consignment during Spring Training this past season. The Nationals signed Robles for $225,000 in 2013, and he immediately became one of[…]