Baseball: Too many players to keep track of?

[hasayrs]

I'm a football guy although I grew up collecting mostly baseball. I have wanted to get back into baseball, but I feel like there is just too much to keep up with considering prospects and what not. I just want to get your guys' opinion. Does collecting baseball make it hard to collect other sports? I just notice alot of the baseball guys around here stick strictly to baseball. I would love to hear input from you guys. Thanks.

[lemur01]

It can be a little difficult trying to keep up with all the prospects. What I find works for me, is to focus on one or two teams when prospecting. The rest of the time I focus on collecting the sets that aren't prospect heavy.

Hope this helps.

[mmbtvs]

You are absolutely correct about baseball. It takes a lot of time and effort to prospect and keep track of all these guys that have barely been drafted let alone played for their major league clubs yet. I find the easiest way to collect baseball is to either be a specific player collector, or a specific team collector. It let's you focus much more, and is much less time consuming.

[Nodie27]

Damn you mmbtvs and your avatar!!!!!!!

[colby2611]

i have been collecting baseball all my life and just baseball.i think it's the greatest when it comes to prospecting. you win some and lose some. i have sold cards that i wish have held on to .it's like a casino, it's a big gamble and addicting.when to sell and when to hold.

[mcdo0423]

I've been trying to juggle both and it keeps coming back to baseball. Both seem to be almost completely rookie/prospect oriented. That is fun and frustrating at the same time. But with baseball when they are rookie/prospect products, you are hitting autographs of them where in football you are pulling a chunk of jersey they wore for 2 seconds.

For football you can hold for 1-2 seasons and pretty much know which are good cards and which are bad. Not a lot of ups and downs after the product has been out for a few years.

For baseball (the reason I love it so much) is that you can get a prospect auto from 2011 Bowman and he may be one of the greatest players ever 5 years from now. You can do a little research and hit it big down the road.

[Laxbam619]

I collect both, and agree that its tough to keep up with baseball in terms of getting cards for cheap and having them increase in value unless you put the time in. With football the guys dont even get cards until the are in the bigs/nfl and by then you know whose who and whose card is going to worth alot so you jump on it then. With baseball these guys get drafted at 18 and go into rookie or single a ball and there card can be had for $5 and could be a $300 card in a couple years, so baseball is definitely more time consuming imo

[thewild3]

I do both football and baseball. I have tons and tons of nothing but rookies/prospects. Keep everything in alphabetical order and it wont be complicated at all.

[hasayrs]

Thanks for the tips guys. I appreciate the insight.