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.

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

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.

Bowl Pick 'Em Contest Winnings, Part XXIII

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.

Part I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII

I'm still not done with this prize package. Today I've got a bunch of Bowman, which usually leads to players I don't know.

2004 Bowman #328 Blake Hawksworth
2011 Bowman Chrome Draft - Prospects #BDPP37 Nick Martini (x2)
2011 Bowman Draft #44 Mark Hamilton
2011 Bowman Draft - Prospects #BDPP7 Kenneth Peoples-Walls
2011 Bowman Draft - Prospects #BDPP66 Adam Ehrlich
2015 Bowman - Chrome Prospects #BCP84 Nick Petree
2015 Bowman - Chrome Prospects #BCP53 Corey Littrell

This scan is bookended by two players I know well, despite being Bowman. Blake Hawksworth didn't last too long, but played 2 years with the Cardinals and one with the Dodgers. Then there's Corey Littrell, who's rising fast through the minors and may see some MLB action in 2017.

2015 Bowman - Prospects #BP38 Tim Cooney
2015 Bowman - Prospects #BP84 Nick Petree
2015 Bowman - Prospects #BP123 Rob Kaminsky

Tim Cooney actually played for the Cardinals for a few games in mid-2015, but missed all of 2016 due to injury. We can probably look forward to seeing him again in 2017, perhaps after starting the season at AAA to get back in his groove.