Four Baggers and Foreclosures

The Minnesota Twins top position player prospects (Royce Lewis and Alex Kirilloff) are well known and highly ranked. However Their top pitching prospect is a little lesser known... Brusdar Graterol was signed in 2015, as a 16 year old out of Venezuela. He debut for the Dominican Summer League Twins, and started 4 games for them that year. Then he missed all of 2016 due to injury, but came back in 2017 for 40 innings of Rookie League ball in the Florida Gulf Coast League and Elizabethton, TN. 2018 saw his number improve slightly over 102 innings (8-4, 2.74 ERA, 89 hits, 28 walks and 107 strikeouts) across Low A (Cedar Rapids, IA) and high A (Fort Myers, FL).  Graterol's velocity recovered and his status as a top prospect was solidifying. Topps agreed and decided to include him in the Bowman sets. Injuries have been a problem throughout Graterol's minor league career, and he missed more time in 2019. But when he was able to pitch, the numbers were still there. Startin...

As soon as I first saw the image of a base card featuring a simple egg, that would be included in the 2019 Allen & Ginter set, I had to have that card. Allen & Ginter often threw in cards of objects or locations into a mixture of current stars, rookies and retired legendary baseball players. Stuff like the Atom, Bigfoot (the monster truck, although the mythical monster has been featured as well) and Area 51 have all been highlighted in a Topps Allen & Ginter set. Congratulations Topps, you got me. Yet another one of your gimmicks has talked me into parting with my hard earned money on a product I’d been fairly cold on in recent years. But simply printing a card of an egg, sold me on buying some 2019 Allen & Ginter. I don't even like eggs. But how could you not love this packaging art? This wax box was an impulse buy at the LCS a few weeks ago. I wasn’t going to buy any packs that day, but I really wanted an egg. In flat cardboard form. The last time I ...