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2018 Mets Debut Autographs

Posted by on 30 June 2018 Comments Off on 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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2018 Mets Card Spring Preview

Posted by on 1 March 2018 Comments Off on 2018 Mets Card Spring Preview

Low expectations all around

The Super Bowl is a distant memory, the Olympics are over, and the snow is melting (tomorrow’s bomb cyclone notwithstanding). Baseball’s back! Down south at least. There’s still another month until games that count, but Topps already has two 2018 releases out the door and we more or less know who will be on the Mets to start the season. As to how the team will do this year… They’ll have some cards, so let’s just see what to expect on that front.

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2017 Mets Card Spring Preview

Posted by on 10 March 2017 1 comment

Bouncing back from a year that fell short

The Mets made the postseason for the second consecutive season last year, but not even a superb outing from Noah Syndergaard could get the Mets past the Giants in the Wild Card game, so it’s been a long offseason. Speaking of Noah Syndergaard, this happened:

We saw lots of Syndergaard in cardboard last year and will likely see a lot more this year. Beyond him though, the cardboard Mets didn’t have a whole lot of depth in 2016 and there could be less in store for 2017. The Mets have two stars shining brightly in Syndergaard and Yoenis Cespedes, which could make everyone else hard to see. Or maybe they’ll be a rising tide that lifts everyone else into prominence. Honestly, I have no clue what Topps (and especially Panini) is doing and I get the feeling that they don’t either.

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Product Spotlight: 2015 Bowman

Posted by on 3 September 2015 Comments Off on Product Spotlight: 2015 Bowman

In which I praise Topps for getting (some) things right

The evolution of the Bowman brand has been interesting lately.  Since the last major redesign in 2012, Bowman has added ice parallels, wave refractors, and mini shimmer refractors, removed the First Bowman Card designation, added a new 1st Bowman designation, introduced Bowman Black autographs, confused collectors with 2013 Kris Bryant Bowman Chrome autographs in 2014 products, added wrapper redemptions, ended wrapper redemptions, dropped the pretense of a “base set” in Bowman Draft, and much, much more.  After three years of incremental improvements, Topps reshuffled the deck in 2015 and brought order to an increasingly chaotic product.

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2013 Mets Draft Class Autographs

Posted by on 1 December 2013 2 comments

The top three are on the board

Full list of 2013 Mets draft picks

Less than six months after the draft, we’re seeing the first certified autographs from the 2013 draft class. Dominic Smith is all over the hobby with autographs in Topps, Panini, and Leaf products. Andrew Church and Ivan Wilson are somewhat less prolific with autographs in one product each. It’s a start, I guess.

1 Dominic Smith 2 Andrew Church 3 Ivan Wilson 3 Casey Meisner
4 L.J. Mazzilli 5 Jared King 6 Champ Stuart 7 Matt Oberste
8 Ricky Knapp 9 Patrick Biondi 10 Luis Guillorme 11 Tyler Bashlor
12 Jeff McNeil 15 Colton Plaia 17 John Magliozzi 25 Ricardo Jacquez

The Mets sign those who don’t sign cards

The general consensus on the Mets’ 2013 draft was fairly positive. They got the draft’s best pure hitter in Dominic Smith and a lot of top talent across the board. What they didn’t get were a whole lot of guys with baseball cards on the market. In fact, of the 41 picks the Mets made, only five of them have any available cards. Colton Plaia and Ricardo Jacquez have certified autograph and Team USA memorabilia cards, while Dominic Smith, Ivan Wilson, and John Magliozzi have a few base All-American game cards (some of which have been signed but are not certified). Really guys? That’s the best you could do? How am I supposed to fill out this piece when there aren’t any cards to show? I guess we’ll have to wait a few months for Topps and Panini to get caught up on these guys…

Previous Editions:

2012 Mets Draft Class Autographs
2011 Mets Draft Class Autographs