Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
This was signed in 2017 during Spring Training. Shawn Armstrong was drafted out of East Carolina University in the 18th round of the 2011 draft. He moved quickly through the system, advancing more than a level per season before finally making it to the majors in 2015. He spent most[…]
Grant Sides was the Indians 12th round pick of the 2011 draft out of Samford. He was not a terribly exciting prospect, but he put up good numbers as a relief pitcher from 2011-2016. I liked him. His 2016 season in AA was pretty great: 61.2 innings, 41 hits allowed[…]
Last season I added a bunch of University of New Mexico players to my collection. I saw them play in Hawaii the season before, but there were a couple guys that I missed. This is what I wrote about these guys a year ago: #30 Carl Stajduhar, if – Last[…]
Joe Mays was drafted in the 6th round (161st overall) by the Seattle Mariners in 1994. He pitched well in the low minors, and in 1997 was traded to the Twins. Mays was a well thought of prospect by the time he reached the majors in 1999, ranking the teams[…]
This is such a cool card. I was watching it for years and was finally able to get it for less than $20. Magglio Ordonez is one of the more underrated players of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. He was a very well thought of prospect when he made[…]
I spent like $30 on this card. At the time–2008–it was not the worst idea. Beau Mills was taken by the Indians with the 13th overall pick of the 2007 MLB draft. His bat was one of the best in the draft that year, but he was defensively limited to[…]
Payton Henry is a pretty exciting young catching prospect. He was drafted in the 6th round (171st overall) by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2016 out of high school in Utah. He is a power bat and showed that tool off in Low-A when he hit .327/.380/.707 with 10 HR. What’s[…]
Matt Krook was the 35th overall pick in 2013 out of a San Francisco high school, but he did not sign since he failed his physical with the Marlins. So he went to college at Oregon. He ended up needing Tommy John surgery and missed his sophomore season. When he[…]
In 2013 Scott Kazmir signed a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians. He would go on to have a very nice season, going 10-9 with a 4.04 ERA/1.323 WHIP/94 ERA+ over 158 innings. He was no small reason why the Indians were able to sneak into the post-season as the[…]
Joey Wendle was one of the Indians better middle infield prospects from 2012-2014. But there was no room for him with Jason Kipnis on the roster, and so he was traded to the A’s for Brandon Moss. It was not a terrible trade. Moss was the kind of power hitter[…]