Well I went on COMC about a week ago looking to buy a good size lot of Pirates Prospects cheap. I find that I can find the cards on eBay, but most sellers overcharge for shipping. If you do it right on COMC, you can pickup a lot of cool cards from the same seller, which I guess you can do on eBay too, it just takes longer.
Anyway, enough of blah blah blah. Here's some of the cards that I manged to pick up for the price of a blaster and rack pack (about $30 shipped).
1) Colton Cain is a cool name and his signature is legible
2) Colton has a 3.64 ERA in 106 IP in A ball this year. He also has a 81:31 strikeout to walk ratio.
3) I want to be Batman too
The second card on the top is a USA Jersey card of Robbie Grossman. I've talked a lot about Robbie over the past couple weeks and yesterday he made minor league history. He was the first minor leaguer to have 100 Walks and 100 Runs in a season since Nick Swisher in 2004. Best of all he hit a game winning home run last night too. Robbie is going to be an amazing athlete if he can continue this success in AA and above.
The Jordy Mercer auto is my first Jordy Mercer card I actually own. I've seen Jordy play a couple times this year with AA and AAA. I also got to see him play in Citizens Bank Park during an exhibition game between the Pirates and Phils before the season opened. I think Jordy has the potential to be a very solid utility ballplayer with some pop in the future.
The dual bat relic of Robbie Grossman and Quincy Latimore is really neat especially since it was less than a $1.00. Numbered 61/250
I didn't have any Jarek Cunningham cards other than the Bradenton Marauders team set card. This card is a numbered parallel 83/199. I got this card for $0.55
Also on this scan is 2 Tony Sanchez Bowman cards for the PC.
At the top of this scan are 2 Daniel McCutchen autos and a Jeff Clement auto. These on card autos were all had for $5.08. How could I pass that up? Daniel McCutchen has been pretty solid as a long swingman throughout the season. He has also been used as a setup man from time to time. Jeff Clement was part of the deal that sent beloved Jack Wilson to Seattle. Jeff was selected by the Mariners as a power hitting catcher, but he was never able to live up to the hype that made him such a desired prospect. After struggling for most of last season and then getting injured twice last year, Jeff is back in the Pirates AAA Indianapolis Indians. In 13 games he has a .342 average with 4 extra base hits. Yesterday he went 1 for 1 as a pinch hitter.
On the bottom row is an autograph of pitching prospect Colton Cain and utility man Steve Pearce. I like how Steve is blowing a bubble while running. Really classy there Steve. I also decided to pick up a Mark Buehrle jersey card. I used to enjoy watching the ChiSox play when they had the Big Hurt, Ventura, and Black Jack together in the early mid 90s and still watch their games from time to time on MLB network. This card of Buehrle is nice looking though because he's wearing a throwback uniform. I love throwback uniform cards.
Last but certainly not least is another Robbie Grossman card. This 2009 Donruss Elite Throwback Threads features a piece of Robbie's high school uniform and is number 7/250.
There you have it 14 cards for $30 shipped. Of that 14 I got 7 Autos, 4 relics, 2 player PC, and a numbered parallel.
Nice additions! COMC is great. You can sometimes find great deals there
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