I was going to go to a card show today, but I'm fighting a cold and don't want to subject everyone at the show to that. Instead, here I am organizing and writing a blog post.
Over the past few months, I've started buying a LOT of Brewers cards. Part of that has just been backfilling the many holes in my collection through Sportlots, eBay, and COMC.
For example, one hole in my collection came with buying Nelson Cruz cards. In 2006, Doug Melvin decided that he wanted a "Proven Closer" and traded away 30-year-old Carlos Lee and 24-year-old Nelson Cruz for Francisco Cordero, Kevin Mench, Laynce Nix, and a minor leader (Julian Cordero). The Brewers got two years of good relief pitching from F-Cordero, 30 total games from Laynce Nix, and 141 games of a 0.1 WAR from Kevin Mench. Lee still had 8.4 WAR and 137 HRs left in his bat, and Cruz--who'd been marooned in the minors by the Brewers for reasons that escape me--had 18 seasons and 42.1 WAR yet to come.
I guess that career is why this card was nearly $20.
I've also loaded up on a lot of Christian Yelich cards. I think I have added at least 350 Yelich cards since the end of the season--and probably more. His back surgery this past season probably helped lead to the sell off by others, and it probably also did not help the Brewers not having him at the top of the order in the playoffs. Here are just a few:
I hope your Sunday is going well.
