| 1989 Topps #224 Tony La Russa 1991 Topps #58 Mel Stottlemyre Jr. 1991 Topps #171 Tony La Russa 2012 Topps Archives #24 Lance Berkman 2012 Topps Update #US44 Jeremy Hermida 2012 Topps Update #US68 Fernando Rodney |
Showing posts with label 2012 Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012 Archives. Show all posts
2017-04-07
Zistle Trade #30
Today's Zistle trade was just a small handful of cards that filled some random needs in my collection. In return, I sent a few Reds, all from 2011.
Tony La Russa was my favorite non-Cardinals manager as a kid, so I was thrilled when he came to St. Louis. Even when a lot of the local fans turned on him, I was a supporter. Of course, winning 2 World Series helped get him back on everyone's good side, and he left his managerial career on top.
2016-12-01
Bowl Pick 'Em Contest Winnings, Part XXV
College football will be here again before we know it IS HERE, so I've got to get my prize from last season's Bowl Pick 'Em contest at Cards on Cards posted! My prize for a second place tie was a very generously sized box of cards, so I felt a bit overwhelmed even sorting through them. I finally sorted them out by player, and, as usual, I'll plan to post them all eventually, but I might quit halfway through, we'll see.
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With Jaime Garcia getting traded today, I thought I'd play one of Deadspin's favorite games: Let's Remember Some Guys. Except I'll throw in some context about how they left.
Jaime Garcia went to the Braves after multiple injury plagued seasons here. I hope for his sake he can make it through a season. On the scale of Braves-Cardinals trades, I just need this one to go better than Jason Heyward, and if we're lucky, as good as Adam Wainwright. The return is all prospects, so we'll see what happens.
Joe Kelly was part of the deal to bring John Lackey to St. Louis. I'd say that trade was a success overall, especially since the Cardinals got his 2015 season very cheaply due to a quirk of his contract triggered by an injury earlier on.
Pete Kozma signed with the Yankees after becoming a free agent at the end of the 2015 season. He played all 4 infield positions and 130 games in 2016, but in AAA only.
Rob Kaminsky hasn't even made it to AAA yet, but was sent to Cleveland for Brandon Moss at the 2015 trade deadline. He lasted through the 2016, but is now a free agent. Moss wore my favorite jersey number, so I'll have to have a new default favorite player in 2016.
Part I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX
XXI XXII XXIII XXIV
With Jaime Garcia getting traded today, I thought I'd play one of Deadspin's favorite games: Let's Remember Some Guys. Except I'll throw in some context about how they left.
| 2011 Topps Allen and Ginter #303 Jaime Garcia 2011 Topps Lineage #189 Jaime Garcia 2012 Topps Archives #34 Jaime Garcia 2012 Topps Chrome #119 Jaime Garcia 2013 Topps #54 Jaime Garcia 2014 Topps Allen and Ginter #84 Joe Kelly 2014 Topps Allen and Ginter #198 Pete Kozma 2014 Topps Archives #28 Joe Kelly 2015 Topps Heritage Minor League #2 Rob Kaminsky |
Joe Kelly was part of the deal to bring John Lackey to St. Louis. I'd say that trade was a success overall, especially since the Cardinals got his 2015 season very cheaply due to a quirk of his contract triggered by an injury earlier on.
Pete Kozma signed with the Yankees after becoming a free agent at the end of the 2015 season. He played all 4 infield positions and 130 games in 2016, but in AAA only.
Rob Kaminsky hasn't even made it to AAA yet, but was sent to Cleveland for Brandon Moss at the 2015 trade deadline. He lasted through the 2016, but is now a free agent. Moss wore my favorite jersey number, so I'll have to have a new default favorite player in 2016.
2016-09-04
Bowl Pick 'Em Contest Winnings, Part XVII
College football will be here again before we know it IS HERE, so I've got to get my prize from last season's Bowl Pick 'Em contest at Cards on Cards posted! My prize for a second place tie was a very generously sized box of cards, so I felt a bit overwhelmed even sorting through them. I finally sorted them out by player, and, as usual, I'll plan to post them all eventually, but I might quit halfway through, we'll see.
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In addition to a fine collection of Jason Motte base cards, I got a trio of 2013 blue parallels in the prize package too, including Brian Fuentes, who pitched 5 innings over 6 games with the Cardinals to end his career.
Jason Motte had a great 2012, leading the NL with 42 saves, but lost all of 2013 to injury, and never quite made it back to that same level of performance. He's back on the DL in Colorado now, too, with just 20 2/3 innings pitched this year.
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| 2012 Topps Archives #114 Jason Motte 2013 Topps Archives #151 Jason Motte 2013 Topps #130 Jason Motte 2013 Opening Day #202 Jason Motte 2013 Topps Blue Parallel #96 Edward Mujica #188 Brian Fuentes #235 Jake Westbrook 2014 Topps #599 Jason Motte |
| 2009 Allen and Ginter #157 Jason Motte 2013 Allen and Ginter #283 Jason Motte 2013 Topps #269 St. Louis Cardinals 2013 Gypsy Queen - Mini #322 Jason Motte |
Jason Motte had a great 2012, leading the NL with 42 saves, but lost all of 2013 to injury, and never quite made it back to that same level of performance. He's back on the DL in Colorado now, too, with just 20 2/3 innings pitched this year.
2015-12-31
Zistle Trade #21
This trade was proposed through Zistle, but was with a fellow blogger, Mark Kaz, of This Way to the Clubhouse. Here's his post on my half (or I guess it's now his half) of the trade.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
The old cards in the trade were a 1986 Topps Traded of Jose Oquendo, the secret weapon, who also played for Mark's New York Mets. The regular 1986 cards seem fairly easy to come by, but the traded sets, as usual, are a bit less common to find. The only other card from that set on my wantlist is Todd Worrell, though a quick look tells me I never went through and exhaustively added all the Cardinals. That would cover the two in uniform, but I collect all Cardinals in any uniform, so I'll be adding Will Clark, Dane Iorg, Joaquin Andujar, and more to my want list. You can see how it balloons so easily.
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
| 1986 Topps Traded #82T Jose Oquendo 1990 K-Mart #12 Joe Magrane 2011 Topps Opening Day - Superstar Celebrations #SC-12 Matt Garza 2012 Topps Update #US185 Donovan Solano 2012 Topps Update #US285 Ian Kinsler 2012 Topps Update #US319 A.J. Pollock RC 2012 Topps Update #US322 Jordan Danks RC 2012 Topps Archives #134 Chris Carpenter 2012 Topps Opening Day - Elite Skills #ES-2 Alex Gordon |
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
2013-12-28
eBay Wins #94
Once again it's a 1-card-1-penny post. This time I picked up Andrew Bailey's base card from 2012 Archives.
I don't know him very well, and the fact that he missed the 2013 playoffs means I didn't get to see him this year in one of my few chances to see AL teams.
I may or may not eventually try to complete this set, but at least I've now crossed the 1% mark at 3 out of 241 cards. The other two came courtesy of Cards on Cards' College Bowl contest last year.
| 2012 Topps Archives #196 Andrew Bailey |
I may or may not eventually try to complete this set, but at least I've now crossed the 1% mark at 3 out of 241 cards. The other two came courtesy of Cards on Cards' College Bowl contest last year.
| eBay Bargain Tracker | |
| Total Cards Bought | 2511 |
| Total Spent | $43.94 |
| Per Card | 1.75 cents |
2013-08-04
College Bowl Game Contest Win, Part 2
For the 2012-2013 College Football season, I entered the College Football Pick 'Em contest hosted by madding of Cards on Cards. I've won several of his contests over the years, and he always dumps a ton of Cardinals on me when I do. Yet, I think this time he may have outdone himself. I may have to work hard to get them all posted before the 2013-14 College Football season starts August 29, and I start posting my Power Rankings again.
[Part I]
I feel torn when I see all the cards Topps gives to the Cardinals when they're winning. On one hand, it's nice that there are 9 pitcher cards (or maybe more) picturing players I collect among the 330 cards of Series 1, and at least 6 batters seen here, and a team card. On the other hand, I know teams like the Astros and Marlins get shortchanged, and that MLB can turn around quickly. St. Louis could be the team with almost no base cards and no inserts by 2015.
These are my first two 2013 Heritage cards. Together these two have far-off stares like roommates who don't get along in a bad sitcom. Come to think of is, Carlos and Jaime would probably make for an entertaining pair in a sitcom. The grizzled old (in baseball terms) veteran rooming with the young hotshot; each one learns from the other at the end of each 30 minute episode. It'll be great!
Oh, Topps Chrome. Why do you look so good on the table and so bad in scans? That throwback uniform on Jaime looks great when I hold the card in my hand.
I never jumped into 2012 Archives like many bloggers seemed to. When I pulled the Holliday card out of the pack I immediately became confused and disoriented. A 2007 Matt Holliday? We haven't had him that long have we? No wait, that's not the 2007 design, that's...1971? Where am I? Then I remembered Archives existed, and the copyright date on the back brought me back to my happy place. I do think there may be much confusion in coming years, with sets masquerading as earlier years tripping me up, because I won't remember exactly which years some of our role players and short-term players played for us.
[Part I]
| 2013 Topps #190 Daniel Descalso #193 Matt Carpenter #315 Rafael Furcal #321 Allen Craig |
| 2013 Topps #4 Yadier Molina #269 St. Louis Cardinals Emerald Green #207 Matt Holliday Chasing History #CH-16 Lance Berkman |
I feel torn when I see all the cards Topps gives to the Cardinals when they're winning. On one hand, it's nice that there are 9 pitcher cards (or maybe more) picturing players I collect among the 330 cards of Series 1, and at least 6 batters seen here, and a team card. On the other hand, I know teams like the Astros and Marlins get shortchanged, and that MLB can turn around quickly. St. Louis could be the team with almost no base cards and no inserts by 2015.
| 2013 Topps Heritage #40 Carlos Beltran #406 Jaime Garcia |
| 2012 Topps Chrome #91 Allen Craig |
| 2012 Topps Chrome #119 Jaime Garcia |
| 2012 Topps Archives #85 Matt Holliday #197 Allen Craig |
2012-05-28
A Zack Greinke contest and College World Series
I recently started following Baseball Cards, Sports, and Life, I think by following a link from someone's trade post. Well I found it just in time, because now there's a contest going on for a Zack Greinke relic card.
I haven't jumped on the 2012 Archives bandwagon myself, but I know lots of others have. Of course, I wouldn't mind a free card to start me off. Go leave a comment on the contest post and follow his blog to enter, and good luck to you!
The second contest going on is the Third Annual College World Series Contest at Autographed Cards. For the first step, just pick the final 8 from the 64 currently in the tournament. And of course, promote it like I am for a bonus point. I didn't do too well last year, but I'll give it another shot this year.
| 2012 Topps Archives - 1956 Topps Relics #56R-ZG Zack Greinke |
The second contest going on is the Third Annual College World Series Contest at Autographed Cards. For the first step, just pick the final 8 from the 64 currently in the tournament. And of course, promote it like I am for a bonus point. I didn't do too well last year, but I'll give it another shot this year.
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