Collecting Cleveland Indians Topps team sets from 1952-present, as well as post-war minor and major league autographs.
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[…]
Dylan Thomas has a very good 2018 campaign with Hawaii. The 2017 Big West Conference Freshman Pitcher of the Year went 3-2 with a 1.85 ERA. He allowed only 27 hits over 39 innings, striking out 43 and only walking four. He has an opponent batting average of only .200.[…]
Another late arrival from the college baseball season. Bryson Stott had a very strong sophomore season with UNLV baseball. He hit .365/.442/.556 with 4 HR. Great numbers. This is coming after a strong freshman campaign that saw him selected to the Collegiate Baseball’s Freshman All-American Team and was the[…]
This was a nice surprise autograph that rolled in, a late arrival from the college baseball season. Kyle Isbel was great this season at UNLV, hitting .365/.643/.441 with 14 HR. He was drafted by the Royals in the 3rd round of the 2018 draft. He was taken about where[…]
I’ve seen Keston Hiura twice in Hawaii, in 2016 and 2017. He was always very cool. The autograph above is from his 2016 visit to the islands. In 2017 he was projected to be a 1st round pick in the draft, though questions about an elbow injury were tamping down[…]