MMMB:Mail Day's Galore To Kick Off The New Year!

 

2020 has officially ended, what does that mean for this blog, some changes.

As you have already seen, I changed the face of this blog, name, added some new segments and updated a Top 15 Want List on the left side. I feel this is the best this blog has looked in years and plan to keep it this way. I do hope that you all like it as much as I do.

Today's post is a new segment that I am using to recap all of my mail days instead of doing a few cards at a time per day. It's called Monday Morning Mail Bag or in short, MMMB.

First up, my winnings from The View From The Third Floor who held some Halloween giveaways and I have been slacking in posting of my wonderful prize winning.

My PWE was loaded full of big names of the NFL, most of which I use in my by-player boxes I sort out.

These cards will pad those collections nicely. And no, these aren't the real cards, they are reprints but great looking reprints.

Thanks goes out to The View From The Third Floor for the giveaway and great mail day!

Up next, I have been doing so many PWE trades that I ate through a book+ of stamps for on Twitter.

This trade mail day was from Matt's Cards on Twitter. Great guy and easy to trade with. My favorite card was this Harry Carson from this trade. Cool design and relic.  I didn't have memorabilia card of him before so this is all new to me!

Thanks for the trade Matt's Cards!

My next trade had a bonus surprise card in it.

 

First up a Danny Dimes rookie year card I didn't have along with a Ximines rookie and Nate Solder Xtra points parallel.

Followed by an Aaron Judge parallel from Stadium Club

Miguel Andujar who I wished had more opportunities with the Yanks.

And Garrett Cooper. Not a name I am familiar with, but I also don't watch baseball as much as I used to either.

The surprise of the package was this Ozzie Newsome relic that will tie in really well with the autograph of him I landed in a Mega Box of Prestige I opened. I have been trying to tie together a relic and autograph of each Hall Of Famer autograph I have. It's a fun challenge. Some I only have the relic for so far such as Tom Brady who may be the most elusive autograph I need and most likely will never land.

 

Big thanks for the surprise @33CardShop and hope we can trade again!

The final card, an Evan Engram rookie auto "patch" I landed from @anthonyscards

I really like the look of these, well other than the small patch circle. I think a square would have looked better. But overall, solid design and I made sure not to drop it. Sorry, Evan that was a low blow for a Pro Bowl player. (once again I will never get how he made it)

Thanks goes out to @anthonyscards for the trade.

Hope everyone enjoyed this weeks mail day recap, more to come next Monday!

Prospecting The Yanks

Prospecting. It's one of the most rewarding/frustrating things in the hobby.

It's also something I don't normally seek out but in the last few years have changed my tune on that.

Last year I pulled a Heliot Ramos autograph from Bowman Draft I had bounced around to a few traders but didn't get much interest. With that card being in the Top 20 on the Beckett Hot List I decided I would hold onto it just in case he became the next superstar. Well, that changed fast when I saw @Mike__McKenna post a few cards that caught my eye and that was the only thing I think I could entice him with. Within a few hours, we worked ourselves out a deal and the guy I was gonna hold onto was soon no longer in hand.

Let's see what I got in return for it.

My first Aaron Judge 2018 Donruss cards. I don't think the design is terrible, just wished the logos were there.

Bowman's Best insert of Judge last year.

And finally an ice parallel from Bowman Platinum. Sweet looking rookie card and card number 71 in my Judge PC. That's 71 different by the way. On my way to 100!

Then I took my look at a couple of Andujars who has played extremely well since being placed in the Yanks lineup. It carried over from his hot spring training.

Heritage rookie with Frazier,

Topps Silver pack card. Sick looking card!

And finally what started up the trade....Gleyber Torres. He hit his first home run last week vs the Indians along with his first walk off home run on Sunday vs them (note that this was typed up on Sunday so if he did anything else this week it won't be updated). I expect more to come from this young gun. Ever since he was called up the Yanks have turned things around and look like the team we all expected.

I had a few of his cards already including an autograph, but this should help pad that PC some more.

A Bowman Chrome mini

Bowman Chrome prospect

Bowman's Best prospect. I have the atomic but not the base

Bowman Platinum prospect

Doesn't look like Gleyber lost his mojo, with this twisted mojo refractor.

My final card from the trade was the first card I inquired about, this on-card Bowman High Tek autograph. Nice looking card all around.

 

I sometimes question myself if I made the right move with letting Ramos go, but I think in the end having cards of guys from my team and letting Ramos go to a SF Giants fan has to be the influencing factor. Like I said, prospecting can make you do some tough decisions sometimes and make things frustrating. It's usually why I don't do it. But, I probably will still attempt to in a small extent.

I am okay however with letting prospect autographs go for veterans if they are guys like Cal Ripken and others on my want list. 

So for now, I am considering myself a beginning prospector. So have any autographs, inserts, parallels or Bowman rookies from the past 5 years of HITTERS ONLY (sorry but I am not a fan of pitchers)? I will take em in trade!

As for my trade with @Mike__McKenna , a big thanks goes out to him for the trade and helping pad my Yankees PC more. I hope we can do this again in the near future.