Martin won these categories by a score of 5-2. Now, Russell didn’t have a great offensive year by any means and I won’t play it off like he did. His BA was low and thus hurt his OBP, but he did manage respectable power numbers. I suppose I wasn’t too disappointed because he put up those numbers in the bottom third of the Yankees order, usually hitting 8th or so. That’s a big difference than if he were hitting in the middle of the line-up and produced at such lowly levels. I immensely enjoyed watching his defense all season long, from his ability to block balls to throwing runners out. Mind you, I’ve been watching Posada behind the dish for the last 10+ years. He plays tough and hard-nosed ad handled the pitching staff well. Girardi counted on him a little too much in the beginning of the year and I think he broke down a little in the middle, but finished strong. I fully expect him to be back next season as the starting catcher, probably giving way to Jesus Montero for about 30-40 games or so.
True to his word and without any prodding from me, Night Owl was a gentleman and contacted me about the bet right after the season ended. I gave him a few choices of blasters I’d prefer, and eventually I received a package with a blaster’s worth of Topps Chrome packs. I had every intention of sending Greg all of the Dodgers from this blaster, but I got one stinkin’ Dodger. I do have a different card on the way to Greg as a thank you. I’ll post the first four packs here and save the next four for another post.
For some reason, I have been pulling a crapload of Phillies lately. Everything but the Yanks are for trade, FYI. Here we go:
Pack 1:
105 King Felix
93 Pablo Sandoval Purple Refractor (005/499)
167 Billingsly (only Dodger pulled)
182 JP Arencebia
Pack 2:
VC19 Utley Vintage Chrome
155 Hanson
91 A. Soriano
81 Latos
Pack 3:
70 Cano
136 CJ Wilson (I do not want the Yanks pursuing him this off-season. I find him to be terribly overrated.)
147 Chone Figgins (how is he still being featured in sets?)
117 JimmY Rollins X-Fractor
Pack 4:
198 Eduardo Nunez (or NunEEEEEEEEEE) Refractor
42 Mariano Rivera (still love this shot of him)
130 Holliday
58 Bay
Oh, geez, a purple refractor of Sandoval. So glad I shipped that off to you.
ReplyDeleteI could use the Panda purple card. Here are the Yankees parallels/inserts I have of Yankees. Can we work a trade?
ReplyDeleteRefractor - Russell Martin
Reprints - Sabathia, Tex
Heritage Chrome (/1962) Hot Corner Guardians (Tex & Arod), Cano
I also have these from Topps Update:
Cognac - Granderson #433
Diamond - David Robertson AS, Jeter 3000 hits, Cano HR Derby
LMK if we can work something out.
Thanks, Adam
Can you set aside the Felix for whenever we get another trade started?
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