Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
Sophomore outfielder Jake Palmer had a very nice season for the UC Irvine Anteaters. Hit .307/.460/.359 over 153 at-bats Had more walks (39) than K’s (35). If you read this blog you know that I love guys who can take a walk. Not a ton of pop–he only had one[…]
Andrew Vaughn is a very good baseball player. This past June he was drafted 3rd overall by the Chicago White Sox out of Cal. This season at Cal he hit .374/.539/.704 with 60 walks compared to just 33 strikeouts. He also hit 15 home runs and has 50 career dingers,[…]
CJ Van Eyk had a very good sophomore season with Florida State. As the Seminoles ace, he went 10-3 over 94.2 innings, only allowing 82 hits while striking out 120. He ended the season with a 3.80 ERA/1.278 WHIP. He was drafted back in 2017 by the Mets in the[…]
Tommy Jew is a sophomore outfielder for UCSB and one of the very best players in the Big West. Last season Jew hit .312/.386/.454 with 5 HR–great numbers that got him tagged First Team All-Big West. This was coming off an impressive summer in Collegiate Summer Ball with the Mystic[…]
Christian Koss is having a very nice junior season at UC Irvine. The infielder is hitting .240/.383/.427 with 3 HR. Good numbers, and even better when you remember that he is a shortstop. Baseball America rated him the Big West best draft prospect of 2019, and he is doing nothing[…]
Brandon Lewis is having a brilliant junior season with UC Irvine, hitting .325/.406/.783 with 10 HR. Those are fantastic numbers, especially considering this is his first season in D1 ball–he is a transfer from L.A. Pierce College. That said…it should not be a huge shock. Last summer he played for[…]
Alex Fagalde went to college at UC Riverside. I got this autograph in 2016 when UC Riverside visited Hawaii. That season he went 3-1 with a 2.47 ERA/1.12 WHIP. He stuck out 51 and only walked 12 in 43.2 innings. He was drafted by 2017 by the St. Louis Cardinals in[…]
Vince Fernandez was drafted out of UC Riverside in the 10th round of the 2016 draft by the Colorado Rockies. He was a very solid D1 player, showing good pop and on-base skills. He hit .350/.431/.509 with 8 HR during his junior season prior to the draft. I was lucky[…]
I started digging on Bobby Bradley in 2014. Bradley was a 3rd round pick out of a Mississippi high school back in 2014. He was assigned to the Arizona League and went on to hit .361/.426/.652 with 8 HR. Those were some of the best numbers of player in the[…]
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[…]