When It Hurts: Selling a former top prospect who is out of baseball

[Keyser Soze]

Matt Purke

[n1nesports]

Originally Posted by Carrbeaz

Brett Lawrie

Forgot entirely about him til now!

[Dacubs]

Originally Posted by bbnut

One name...Delmon Young.

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ugh....bad memories of cards I still have

[Boo]

Was in a group break in 2014, think it was random player. Ended up with Mark Appel, #1 pick! Hit like 10 autos including a black and a gold. Still have them, he's still young, right?

[solt0131]

I think it was like 2010 when people were going nuts over Donovan Tate, Courtney Hawkins and Matt LaPorta. Their cards were selling for stupid money.

[fitefanSHO]

I have a Brett Jackson Bowman Auto #/25.

It’s from whatever his first year of cards was.

I don’t think he’s gonna be next Trout.

[Keyser Soze]

Originally Posted by Boo

Was in a group break in 2014, think it was random player. Ended up with Mark Appel, #1 pick! Hit like 10 autos including a black and a gold. Still have them, he's still young, right?

Stupid Astros. How did making the "safe pick" work out for you?

Originally Posted by fitefanSHO

I have a Brett Jackson Bowman Auto #/25.

It’s from whatever his first year of cards was.

I don’t think he’s gonna be next Trout.

Keep hope alive, brother!!

[Farmkid]

Kyle Zimmer

[LCM1223]

I see we’re about to morph into another “name the biggest busts” thread

To save everyone some time

Matt LaPorta
Brien Taylor
Kevin Mass
Joba Chamberlain
JD Drew
Dice-K
Mark Prior
Matt Bush
Todd Van Poppel
Mark Appel
Travis Snider
Billy Rowell
Gregg Jefferies
Dustin Ackley
Dom Brown
Matt Purke
Danny Hultzen
Bubba Starling
Josh Vitters
FMart
Austin Jackson
Justin Upton
BJ Upton
Shelby Miller
Gordon Beckham
Dylan Bundy
Mitch Einertson
Matt Tuiasosopo
Chris Coghlan
Brett Lawrie
Reid Brignac
JP Arencibia
JP Crawford
Homer Bailey
Trey Ball
Braden Shipley
Dillon Gee
Jeff Samardzija
Jesse Biddle
Darin Ruf
Gregory Polanco
Pedro Alvarez
Donovan Tate
Jeff Francouer
Jeremy Hermida
Felix Pie
Bobby Borchering
Michael Burgess
Mike Olt
Tim Beckham
Brandon Wood
Chris Marrero

[calculusdork]

Originally Posted by eye4talent

One day I‘ll dig up my Delmon collection to show. It’ll make the entire hobby cringe. A few of you might throw up. Some might even want to gouge their eyes out.


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OK, now we HAVE to see it!!!

[calculusdork]

Originally Posted by comicbooksgo

I seriously cannot believe I found this..

How in the world can this be a thing ...

[revil41]

Dam all i saw was implant center had a big smile, until i saw dental in there. tuesdays suck! lol

[stinkus]

I went crazy oVer Eric Jagielo when 13 draft was around, thinking he was gonna be the guy after Arod was gone. I think there was another Yankee prospect similarly priced in that set that i maybe should have gone after but he was an older outfield prospect who was too big and struck out too much.

And everyone knows who I’m talking about here - Ian Clarkin.

Valuable lesson - the back of every bowman prospect sounds like they’re a budding superstar, do your own research.

[fitefanSHO]

Ah yes, Matt Tuiasosopo.

If he ever makes it, I have killer RC refractor of his.

[Napfan75]

I had a BUNCH of his rookie cards back in the junk wax era.

[BlueJaysRockies]

Originally Posted by Cavaliercards

We had 500 Jake Marisnick Elite Auto Rookies.

We still have 40 left, but sold the rest.

I really hope you still made a profit after selling the 460 autos. That's a bunch of one player's autos. Impressive!

[jcmint]

Oh I feel ya bud. I had maybe the best Jagielo collection going. Still have so many. What to do with them now lol. Have 2x two row boxes of gems and pristine bc and color autos. Had a good amount of Clarkin too. Thank God I was buying Judge too. Still stings though.

Originally Posted by stinkus

I went crazy oVer Eric Jagielo when 13 draft was around, thinking he was gonna be the guy after Arod was gone. I think there was another Yankee prospect similarly priced in that set that i maybe should have gone after but he was an older outfield prospect who was too big and struck out too much.

And everyone knows who I’m talking about here - Ian Clarkin.

Valuable lesson - the back of every bowman prospect sounds like they’re a budding superstar, do your own research.

[BigSlim16]

Originally Posted by stinkus

I went crazy oVer Eric Jagielo when 13 draft was around, thinking he was gonna be the guy after Arod was gone. I think there was another Yankee prospect similarly priced in that set that i maybe should have gone after but he was an older outfield prospect who was too big and struck out too much.

And everyone knows who I’m talking about here - Ian Clarkin.

Valuable lesson - the back of every bowman prospect sounds like they’re a budding superstar, do your own research.

I thought Ian Clarkin and Trey Ball were both going to be studs coming out of '13 Draft. Boy was I wrong

[fitefanSHO]

Abraham Nunez

Beckett Magazine lied to me!

It’s almost like they help hype/sell cards for manufacturers.

Nah.

[jlzinck]

I had 500 Manny Delcarmen RC's. He was never a top prospect or anything but he was a local Boston kid who was drafted by the Red Sox.

I gave most, I think I kept like 5, to a local business owner who was supposed to give them to Manny to autograph them and give them to kids at his fundraisers.

On a separate note, once I sell a kidney on the deep web I will be back for that code breaker Pedroia.

[LVDan]

When elite extra edition came out in 2007 I thought I would get rich hoarding autos of the guys who weren’t in Bowman that year.
Did great with Donaldson and Arrieta. The others, not so much. I ended up with like 20-50 autos each of guys like Travis Mattair, Nathan Vineyard and Jordan Walden. I was a bad prospector.


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[psumac]

i'm still buying low numbered jesse biddle cards when they come up at a decent price. not because i think he's good, more because no one else has really tickled my fancy. he's a local kid that got drafted by my hometown team right as i got back into the hobby. nick bitsko was on the board for the phillies pick and i definitely would have collect him, but the phillies passed.

if anyone here is holding biddles #/50 of less, let me know.

[eye4talent]

Originally Posted by calculusdork

OK, now we HAVE to see it!!!

I’ll see if I can get to it this weekend.

I’ll give a teaser: the ‘03 Donruss Signature auto had a parallel numbered to 10. I have 8 of the 10.


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[thenwhatjk]

Originally Posted by solt0131

I think it was like 2010 when people were going nuts over Donovan Tate, Courtney Hawkins and Matt LaPorta. Their cards were selling for stupid money.

Three different eras!

[Danderlion]

Originally Posted by psumac

i'm still buying low numbered jesse biddle cards when they come up at a decent price. not because i think he's good, more because no one else has really tickled my fancy. he's a local kid that got drafted by my hometown team right as i got back into the hobby. nick bitsko was on the board for the phillies pick and i definitely would have collect him, but the phillies passed.

if anyone here is holding biddles #/50 of less, let me know.

I didn't realize there were any Biddle collectors out there...

I have these listed on COMC for cheap:
2018 topps update camo /25
2018 topps chrome update red refractor /25
2011 heritage minors black /62