It's very weird that I am showing some 2020 cards in the middle of the second month of 2021. I've never been this far behind. It's covid's fault! The 2020 edition of Bowman's Best was released on December 23. That makes it pretty tough to show in 2020!
The set has 70 players and 30 Top Prospects.
Ed Howard is the Cubs representative in the Top Prospect subset. He was their #1 draft pick last June. The picture has to be a total Photoshop job.
Okay, here's a question for you to ponder. Who will be the Cubs' 2021 version of Robel Garcia in the card collecting world?
ReplyDeleteThe player doesn't necessarily have to be lost to waivers midseason like Garcia was in 2020. I'm thinking more along the lines of a player given the RC treatment and shoved into every product without really having the prospect pedigree, the minor league track record, or the chance to stick with the team.
I was thinking Ian Miller, but then I saw on Ebay that he was given a rookie card in Topps Update. I'm really rooting for Brailyn Marquez, so I'll refrain from making him my pick. I'm thinking Tyson Miller fits the Robel Garcia profile a bit. We'll see!
Good question!
ReplyDeleteThere aren't any Cubs with a rookie designation in series one, so maybe we'll escape the plague this year. I don't mind a rookie getting overplayed in the various sets as long as the player deserves it. Bryant was in just about every 2015 set, but deservedly so.
Garcia didn't do enough in 2019 to be placed in any 2020 set, let alone getting plastered into just about everything.
I'm pleased to say we see eye-to-eye on this one.
DeleteHope you're staying warm. It's brutal in P-town and we're at least a couple hundred miles south of you. Stay warm!
It's cold and snowy here, but that's ok because it gave us a snow day today!
DeleteYou'll never escape the plague of the U-Troy (ubiquitous team rookie of the year). The Rockies had a pair last year in Sam Hilliard and Yonathan Daza. Hilliard wasn't as bad because he was a starter in the OF, but Daza didn't play a single game in 2020 and was all over the late season releases and STILL was put into 2021 series 1.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Bowman's Best goes, I still haven't even bothered to put that set on my checklists yet. I know Topps had a schedule, but the two months of no cards should have changed the plans, not jammed them all closer together. But I guess as long as the breakers buy the product, then they don't care about the rest of us.