McCutchen Mailday #100: The Biggest Addition is the Smallest

I'm trying to add as many unique cards to the Cutch PC as possible this year and when I saw this 2015 Allen & Ginter Mini Mini show up, I had to have it.  These were found in specially marked Rip Card Minis.  As a result, you could get a mini mini inside.  This tiny beauty is numbered 1/2

Here's all the cards side by side to show just how small this card is compared to your standard mini or even the base

mini mini, standard mini, base card

mini mini and standard mini

Another Mini Rainbow to start

AJ Burnett was one of my favorite players to ever put on a Pirates uniform.  When he announced his retirement after the 2015 season, I was hoping to grab some awesome cards of Batman in his final season.  With all the Cutch cards I was buying last year, I put off buying a lot of AJ cards.  Now that it's the offseason and he's no longer active and likely not Hall of Fame bound, I can refocus on adding some great AJ cards to the PC.

For example this one

Numbered 1/5 and snagged for only $3.50

I also grabbed the black numbered /10, but am still waiting on it's arrival.

Starting a Mini Rainbow (literally)

So I am in the process of starting a John Holdzkom 2015 Topps Chrome Autograph Rainbow and will now start the 2015 Topps Mini Rainbow.

Here's two of the harder cards to find

 1/1 Gold

2/5 Red

Together these two cards ran me $28.  The other cards missing are the black and base.  Shouldn't be too hard to grab those though.  I think that Holdzkom will be a key piece for the Pirates bullpen this year.

McCutchen Mailday #171: Just a Lil Red

Ever get something that hurts like a bitch, and all you can do is look at it and say "well, it's a little red"  Such was the case with this card.  After failing to grab 2 more copies of it for under $10, I had to pony up and pay $12 to add this Lil Red (border) Cutch Ginter mini from 2015 to my collection.

Surprisingly enough, it's one of my first Cutch 2015 Allen & Ginter cards I've added to my PC this year. I desperately need to add many more of the variants as I am approaching adding nearly 200 new Cutch cards to the PC this year.

Morton on the Mound: Black Mini

Numbered to only 5!!!!

The Bugs are hoping for some cooperation from the Mets and Marlins to bring their games back in the NL Central to only 5.

Let's Go Bucs!!!

Morton on the Mound: 1/1 Platinum Topps Mini

Here's another 2014 Topps Mini of Ground Chuck and it's the Platinum version numbered 1/1.

This beaut was acquired for a bargain as it's a true 1/1 colored parallel and ran me less than $30.  My Morton collection is extremely impressive with the amount of 1/1s I have of the Jersey born sinkerballer. He is off to a great start this year with a sub 2 ERA and 5 wins through his first 5 starts.

Morton on the Mound: 1/1 Printing Plate 2014 Topps Mini

Charlie Morton is on the mound today and you know what that means...

Another installment of Morton on the Mound.

Today's card ties in with the rest of the week's high end, super rare cards.  It's a 1/1 yellow printing plate from 2014 Topps Mini.

It goes perfectly with the 2014 Topps Yellow Printing Plate I showed off last year in July (also seen below)

McCutchen Mailday #63: 2014 Topps Mini 4/5

In my ongoing pursuit to add 100 new Andrew McCutchen cards to my PC, I came across this very low numbered parallel from 2014 Topps Mini. The card is numbered 4/5 and ran me $30. Its more than I would have liked to pay, but I am trying to complete the rainbow and with such low numbering I knew I probably wouldn't see another for some time.

Cutch has finally started to heat up and recently won CoPlayer of the Week award with Ryan Braun for his performance last week.