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2019 Mets Card Spring Preview

Where do we go from here?

So, yeah, not much going on here these days. After a monster 2017, I took a step back in 2018 and have continued that in 2019. Keeping up with the current releases just isn’t as much of a priority for me because there’s just too damn much out there and most of it isn’t particularly interesting. After seeing what Topps did with 2019 Series 1 Jumbo, I’m not hopeful for a whole lot of value in their products this year. And with rising overhead costs on the secondary market, it’s getting harder to track down hidden gems on the low end. On the plus side, I’ve got tons of great stuff that has yet to be scanned, so I’m buried in work if I ever come up with something to put together. Not much of a plus side, but there it is.

2019 is a transition year for the Mets as the Captain has left the field and the front office had significant turnover. That translated into a flurry of offseason moves, but whether that turns into success has yet to be determined. Last year had to have been rock bottom (just look at how many cast-offs were on the roster), but there were still a few glimmers of hope (Cy deGrom) tinged with despair (deGrom’s extension talks). Basically, same old Mets.
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2018 Mets Debut Autographs

Well, that happened

The 2018 Mets included Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, and Austin Jackson. Someone really needs to tell Fred and Jeff that it’s not 2011 anymore. No wonder Jose Reyes started 48 games… Maybe half of the 2018 newcomers will be back in 2019, so is it even worth going over who did what to whom? A good number of them will probably never get a Rookie Card, much less an autograph card, so they’re largely irrelevant anyway. The back half was just Jeff McNeil and a bunch of random guys, so let’s just leave it at that. Sadly, that might also describe Mets Rookie Card offerings for the first half of 2019…

Adrian Gonzalez Todd Frazier Anthony Swarzak Jose Lobaton
29 March 2018 29 March 2018 29 March 2018 13 April 2018
Gerson Bautista* Corey Oswalt* P.J. Conlon* Devin Mesoraco
17 April 2018 25 April 2018 7 May 2018 8 May 2018
Luis Guillorme* Buddy Baumann Jose Bautista Tim Peterson*
11 May 2018 16 May 2018 22 May 2018 30 May 2018
Scott Copeland Chris Beck Drew Smith* Kevin Kaczmarski*
31 May 2018 15 June 2018 23 June 2018 24 June 2018
Tyler Bashlor* Drew Gagnon* Jeff McNeil* Austin Jackson
25 June 2018 10 July 2018 24 July 2018 27 July 2018
Bobby Wahl Jack Reinheimer Daniel Zamora* Eric Hanhold*
2 August 2018 15 August 2018 17 August 2018 4 September 2018

*MLB Debut

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