PITCHERS: Official Thread of the Hobby’s Outcast Position
 

It’s no secret that pitchers receive little love in the hobby. That’s despite the top free-agent hurlers getting paid like Fortune 500 CEOs.

Collecting pitchers is a thing, though, even if it’s more niche than, say, collecting Trout or Jeter. And threads do exist here in the Forum for individual pitchers. But let’s face it: if surefire Hall-of-Famers Scherzer, Kershaw and Verlander can’t carry a lively thread, how can we expect an up-and-comer with a few hundred strikeouts (Sandy Alcantara) to do so?

We can’t. But if we grouped them altogether, kinda like a pitching staff (BO style), then maybe—just maybe—we can have an ongoing dialogue about the stars of the mound and the great cards we’re collecting of them (or begrudgingly pulling from packs.)

Here are some highlights of my recent pickups. Now let’s see what you got! (And maybe later we can debate whether Scherzer’s 2008 Stadium Club auto is the most overlooked card of any active player.)

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Arrived yesterday. Under $8 dlvd

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Snagged this one recently for a little over $8 dollars. I briefly held a sealed jumbo box of '08 Update but decided not to rip when Khal reported condition issues (packs shift a lot), so I sold it and now I bought the card I likely wouldn't have hit had I opened the box.

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I saw prices recently for a Maddux private signing and bought this instead, for less. Easy call.

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Party on.

#PitchersMatterToo

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[QUOTE=BigSlim16;18597416]#PitchersMatterToo

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Three posts, and there are already two Lodolo blacks!


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[QUOTE=towerymt;18597410]Arrived yesterday. Under $8 dlvd

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Snagged this one recently for a little over $8 dollars. I briefly held a sealed jumbo box of '08 Update but decided not to rip when Khal reported condition issues (packs shift a lot), so I sold it and now I bought the card I likely wouldn't have hit had I opened the box.

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I saw prices recently for a Maddux private signing and bought this instead, for less. Easy call.

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Party on.[/QUOTE]


I like the range, from a HOFer to a superstar vet to a farmhand flier.


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Outstanding topic! I've been partial to pitchers for as long as I can remember. Hugely undervalued and under appreciated! Every action sequence starts with the pitcher. When he's on, the entire game focuses on him. When he's off, the mound is the loneliness place in the entire park.

Love all the cards shown! Top quality...especially the Chrome Scherzer 9.5 for $8? Did I read that right? If so, yowza.

For active young guys, I like Josiah Gray. I know he's in purgatory with Washington and had an expectedly rough year, but he only turns 25 next week and has a lot of talent. Pitchers mature later anyway. I believe he'll blossom sooner than later.

Otherwise, a massive Kershaw fan, even though I only have a handful of his cards.

But, the centrepiece to my small collection is a Topps era run of HOF pitchers. All 40 representing a different Topps design with no duplicates and no rookies.

Look forward to seeing more!

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Topps Era HOF Pitchers
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I'm pumped to watch more strider this year

[QUOTE=cjraleigh;18597480]Outstanding topic! I've been partial to pitchers for as long as I can remember. Hugely undervalued and under appreciated! Every action sequence starts with the pitcher. When he's on, the entire game focuses on him. When he's off, the mound is the loneliness place in the entire park.

Love all the cards shown! Top quality...especially the Chrome Scherzer 9.5 for $8? Did I read that right? If so, yowza.

For active young guys, I like Josiah Gray. I know he's in purgatory with Washington and had an expectedly rough year, but he only turns 25 next week and has a lot of talent. Pitchers mature later anyway. I believe he'll blossom sooner than later.

Otherwise, a massive Kershaw fan, even though I only have a handful of his cards.

But, the centrepiece to my small collection is a Topps era run of HOF pitchers. All 40 representing a different Topps design with no duplicates and no rookies.

Look forward to seeing more!

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Topps Era HOF Pitchers
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It’s a common refrain to point out that a successful hitter fails seven out of 10 times at the plate. By the same token, a pitcher who only succeeds seven out of 10 times is failing. The threshold for success is high, and yet we hobbyists don’t give proper due to those who surpass exceed it.

A single thread certainly can’t change hobby attitudes toward pitchers, but I figure it can’t hurt to bring more focus to the only players who touch the ball on every play. (Not even catchers can claim that.)

As for your cards… I despise the Dodgers. But that triple auto is, uh, not a bad piece of cardboard. Someday you’ll need a quad auto that includes Urias.


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What is the 3rd Hunter Greene Chrome RC in the first post?


Mariners have had some good Pitcher RCs lately.

[QUOTE=base set;18597610]What is the 3rd Hunter Greene Chrome RC in the first post?


Mariners have had some good Pitcher RCs lately.[/QUOTE]


That’s an orange speckle refractor of the Topps Chrome Extended SP.

I don’t know too much of the story, but apparently Topps failed to include them in regular packs, and made up for it by inserting them in Cosmic and Logofractor boxes. And they’re apparently in Hobby Lite boxes, too.


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Not sure if this meets your criteria, but these are both /99 and I think they’re pretty sweet!

(Nice Greenes eye4!)

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[QUOTE=gresh87;18597645]Not sure if this meets your criteria, but these are both /99 and I think they’re pretty sweet!

(Nice Greenes eye4!)

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There is no criteria, other than this is a place to discuss pitchers and share cards of them. Mikolas is a pitcher, and those are nice cards of Mikolas. Perfect!


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[QUOTE=eye4talent;18597655]There is [B]no criteria[/B], other than this is a place to discuss pitchers and share cards of them. Mikolas is a pitcher, and those are nice cards of Mikolas. Perfect!


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Black Waino (70/70 :D) likes to hear that! And thanks!

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[QUOTE=gresh87;18597769]Black Waino (70/70 :D) likes to hear that! And thanks!

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Glad to bring a smile to Waino’s face!


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Been collecting Greinke since I got into the hobby :

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[QUOTE=KC35;18597788]Been collecting Greinke since I got into the hobby :

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That’s some serious firepower. Do you have the UD Prospect Premieres auto? (I unfortunately sold mine a long, long time ago.)


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Here are some of my Tarik Skubal PC rainbows either complete or almost complete. I have several other rainbows I’m slowly working on.

Missing the Cycle /25
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Largest rainbow undertaking I’ll ever attempt. I have 33 of 40 cards not counting the three /1’s.

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Latest edition since above photos, FOTL /7 (missing the other two FOTL /7’s)
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Nice small complete Sapphire rainbow (base, /75, /20, /15), just missing the /1
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[QUOTE=eye4talent;18597797]That’s some serious firepower. Do you have the UD Prospect Premieres auto? (I unfortunately sold mine a long, long time ago.)


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Thanks! Yep I’ve got the 02 upper deck auto as well as both autograph cards from 2003 bowman. They’d all grade in the 6-8 range though due to rough edges.

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I got back into collecting pulling a 2005 Bowman Sterling auto relic of Verlander. Can't wait to get it back from grading.

Been thinking recently of getting more into Josiah Gray to have a Nationals guy. Haven't pulled the trigger on any pitchers though. Almost went for the super Sterling of Dustin May, but you talked me out of it because of Tommy Johns at the time.

It didn't take long for this thread to fill up with some nice cards!

Personally, I'm partial to pitchers. I was a pitcher when I played so other than Yordan, most of the players I end up collecting are pitchers. Fernandez, Javier, Manoah, Luzardo, Toussaint...

I'll have to post some photos later.

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Haigo, I’ve never been able to see your photos. I assume these are some Cristian Javier or Framber rookies?


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Good topic- I’ve never really collected many pitchers, but with Kershaw, Verlander and Scherzer headed towards the end of their careers, I’ve been wondering if we’ll look back on 2022 as the year when the next generation of really good starting pitchers broke out.

I definitely gobbled up some more RCs this year of pitchers like Alcantara, Manoah, McClanahan, Burnes, and Cease.