Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Cleveland Shortstop Juan Benjamin, 19, opened his 2022 season in the Arizona Complex League (ACL). He hit a very impressive .300/.462/.500 with 3 HR. One stat to highlight is that he walked almost as much as he struck out (25:27), which is always a nice surprise in today’s game. These[…]
Cleveland Guardians seem to have yet another solid middle infield prospect coming up through the system: Angel Genao.
Chris Young had a very understated career. He spent 13 seasons in the majors and was a solid #3 starter. When healthy, he was well above average. The problem was he was rarely able to stay on the field.
Gary Sheffield had a borderline Hall of Fame, 22-year career. When he retired following the 2009 season, he had a career 140 OPS+ and 509 career home runs.
There are a bunch of reasons the Cleveland Guardians are successful this season. Triston McKenzie is high on the list of reasons why.
Scott Brosius was in the big leagues for 11 seasons (1991-2001). He is best known for his four seasons with the Yankees, especially his 1998 season. That year, Brosius hit .300 with a 121 OPS+, was selected to his only All-Star team, and won the World Series and World Series[…]
Much like the Aaron card I posted earlier today, this card purchase was inspired by watching Ken Burns’s baseball documentary. I jumped at this card since the autograph was still nice and bold. It would seem many of these have not aged well, though from what I can tell it’s[…]
Ken Griffey jr. was easily the most popular player in the game when I was growing up. I still think of him as one of the greatest that ever played the game, though I try to quickly remind myself that isn’t really the case. During his peak–I will say from[…]
Watching Ken Burns’s baseball documentary reminded me of how amazing Hank Aaron‘s career was and inspired me to drop a little money to add another autograph of his to my collection. I liked this card, in particular, since it was an Emerald version. Green is my favorite color. It was[…]
Will Brennan was drafted by Cleveland in the 8th round of the 2019 draft out of Kansas State. He was a decent prospect coming out of college, with good outfield defense and great on-base skills. But he did not have a ton of pop, so his ability to limit strikeouts[…]