Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies - Shohei Time

2005 Topps #595

2025 Chachi 2005 Topps Missing Links #11

Friday, April 4th - 6:45
Saturday, April 5th - 4:05
Sunday, April 6th - 1:35


Los Angeles Dodgers 8-0
1st Place in the N.L. West, 1/2 game ahead of the Padres

Dodgers Probables
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-0, 2.70)
Roki Sasaki (0-0, 5.79)
Tyler Glasgow (1-0, 0.00)

Dodgers Leaders
Average:  Will Smith - .450
Runs:  Shohei Ohtani - 11
Home Runs:  Tommy Edman - 4
RBIs:  Teoscar Hernandez - 8
Stolen Bases:  Shohei Ohtani - 2

Wins:  Anthony Blade - 2
ERA:  Blake Snell - 2.00
Strikeouts:  Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 14
Saves:  Tanner Scott - 2

Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia, PA
Saturday is being called Kids Opening Day and all fans 14 and under will receive a Phillies knit hat.  On Sunday, all fans will go home with a 2025 schedule magnet.

Philadelphia Phillies 5-1
1st Place in the N.L. East, 1 1/2 games ahead of the Marlins

Phillies Probables
Jesus Luzardo (1-0, 3.60)
Aaron Nola (0-1, 8.44)
Cristopher Sanchez (0-0, 1.69)

Phillies Leaders
Average:  Kyle Schwarber - .308
Runs:  Kyle Schwarber - 7
Home Runs:  Kyle Schwarber - 4
RBIs:  Kyle Schwarber - 8
Stolen Bases:  J.T. Realmuto - 2

Wins:  Five tied with - 1
ERA:  Taijuan Walker - 0.00

Strikeouts:  Zack Wheeler - 18
Saves:  Jose Alvarado - 1

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Just One Card - 2000s Phillies Edition (Part Two - 2005 to 2009)

2005 Phillies Team Issue #33

2008 Phillies Team Issue #57

2009 Phillies Team Issue Update #23

Having tackled the Phillies players of the 1980s and 1990s to have never before appeared on a Phillies baseball card, I'm now going to turn my attention to the decade of the 2000s.  I started the Chachi custom baseball card sets in 2005, so the players from 2005 onwards have already appeared (at least in virtual form) on a Phillies baseball card.  But I'll still pay tribute to those players with an official Missing Links card.

By my tally, and I'll readily admit up front that I could be wrong, there were 34 players who suited up for the Phillies between 2000 and 2009 who never appeared on a Phillies baseball card.  But before we get to those 34 players, here are the players who just missed the cut having appeared on exactly one baseball card as a member of the Phillies.  (This is part two, and part one appears here.)

2005
Jose Offerman - 2005 Phillies Team Issue #33
Michael Tucker - 2005 Topps Update #UH4
Ugueth Urbina - 2005 Topps Update #UH80

2006
Rick White - 2006 Topps Phillies Fan Appreciation Day #12

2008
Rudy Seanez - 2008 Phillies Team Issue #57

2009
Paul Bako - 2009 Phillies Team Issue Update #23
Jack Taschner - 2010 Upper Deck #381

2005 Topps Update #UH4

2005 Topps Update #UH80

2006 Topps Phillies Fan Appreciation Day #12

2010 Upper Deck #381

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2005 Phillies Team Issue

Number of Cards:  36
Card Size:  4" x 6"
Description:  Full color action photos are superimposed over the player's giant, gray uniform number floating in a digital looking sky.  As a aside, this is one of my least favorite team issued set designs in their sixty year run.  The horizontal card backs feature biographical information and complete career statistics.
How Distributed:  The 36-card set was available for sale at Citizens Bank Park throughout the season.

Complete Standard Checklist:  The cards are unnumbered, but I've presented them below ordered by uniform number.

3 - Todd Pratt 4 - David Bell 5 - Pat Burrell 7 - Kenny Lofton 9 - Tomas Perez 11 - Jimmy Rollins 13 - Billy Wagner 15 - Milt Thompson CO 16 - Bill Dancy CO 17 - Mick Billmeyer CO 19 - Gary Varsho CO 21 - Jon Lieber 22 - Jason Michaels 23 - Marc Bombard CO 24 - Mike Lieberthal 25 - Jim Thome 26 - Chase Utley 27 - Placido Polanco

28 - Rich Dubee CO 29 - Marlon Byrd 30 - Cory Lidle 31 - Ramon Henderson CO 33 - Jose Offerman 34 - Gavin Floyd 37 - Rheal Cormier 38 - Tim Worrell 39 - Bretty Myers 41 - Charlie Manuel MG 43 - Randy Wolf 44 - Vicente Padilla 46 - Aaron Fultz 48 - Pedro Liriano 51 - Terry Adams 53 - Bobby Abreu 63 - Ryan Madson Phillie Phanatic

One and Done (1):  Offerman
First Appearances (6):  Floyd, Fultz, Lidle, Lieber, Liriano, Lofton
Returning Players (20):  Abreu, Adams, Bell, Burrell, Byrd, Cormier, Lieberthal, Madson, Michaels, Myers, Padilla, Perez, Polanco, Pratt, Rollins, Thome, Utley, Wagner, Wolf, Worrell

A few years before he attacked former Phillies pitcher Matt Beech with a bat, Offerman received his one and only Phillies baseball card in this set.  The First Appearance designation is for players who have never before appeared within a Phillies team issued set.  These players may have already appeared on other Phillies baseball cards.

Manager (1):  Manuel
Coaches (7):  Billmeyer, Bombard, Dancy, Dubee, Henderson, Thompson, Varsho
Phillie Phanatic (1):  The Phanatic is shown doing his thing at the ballpark.
Broadcasters (0):  After three straight years of receiving cards, the broadcast team was shut out from this set.
Commemorative Cards (0)

Variations/Rarities:  As Rick points out in his comment below, cards of the following players were made available with black facsimile autographs - Abreu, Burrell, Lieberthal Lofton, Rollins and Thome.  Finally, a special blank-backed, thinner card stock card was created for Chris Roberson for a special signing during the season in the Hall of Fame Club.

• 80 - Chris Roberson

Also See:  2005 was the first year I created my custom baseball cards, affectionately named Chachi cards after our late, great dog.  See here for the set's official origin story.  (Scroll down for Part 1 and then work your way up.)
Resources:  Beckett.com; Phillies collector Rick (@rickphils)

2005 Chachi #11 Jose Offerman

2010: A Chachi Odyssey, Part 3

The most vexing new member of the Phillies, who most likely would never be featured on a Phillies baseball card . . . new utility infielder/pinch-hitter Jose Offerman. The Wall now had too many holes, so drastic measures were needed. Then and there, I decided to make my own baseball card set. I would make it stronger and faster than the other insufficient baseball card sets. I would scoff at the 2005 baseball card sets as they were released without their Clay Condrey, Matt Kata or Eude Brito cards. My Phillies team set would feature them all, and best of all, I would create my new set using my favorite baseball card design of all-time - that of the 1975 Topps set.

Using basic graphic design software, a scanner, a little twine and spare coat hangers, the set slowly came together. Holes were filled on the Wall. The empty sleeve reserved for situational reliever Aaron Fultz now hosted an actual Aaron Fultz baseball card. No more would I look away disgustingly at empty spots dotting the 25-man roster. All I needed was a name for my set, my creation. (At this point in my narrative, I realized 2010 Chachi Set Planning Committee member Doug had wandered off and he was attacking his 1988 Score Juan Samuel card with Buzz Lightyear. I pressed on undaunted. Back to the Spring of 2005 . . . )

Somewhere outside The Crick, a motorcycle backfired (again). Our puppy Chachi proceeded to completely go bonkers-bananas and bark bark bark unrestrained at the offending motorcycle. The name of my set came to me then . . . To be continued.