Adding To Baseball

Before adding to baseball, let's take a moment for hockey - specifically the end of the Leafs season because, well, it's just been horrid of late. Add on the Auston injury and it's like a final nail in the coffin to a poor season and a showing, honestly, of how the changes made in the off season, were the wrong changes.

The good about hockey though, regardless of how good or bad they play, is collecting Leaf cards, and that's what I was able to do with a small trade with TCDB member Robi1965.

The Dazzlers look so much better in hand, and the orange Campbell is fantastic. Definitely goalie heavy here, and that's alright with me. The turqoise 2023-23 Artifact cards are pretty nice too. Definitely a big improvement over the bunch of 1991-92 O Pee Chee cards I sent away in exchange. A trade I would happily do any day!

Oh, and the checklist - wrong version was sent, was supposed to be the 2024-25 version, but no worries, wasn't a big deal so I didn't bother with correcting on that one. It happens!

As for baseball, a good day of additions from the 2026 Lot today as we have a bunch of 2024 Topps flagship set cards show up. I don't have a bunch, but it's on my list for slow building sets, so let's take a look!

We do well today actually, 26 keepers out of the 36 cards, with a couple obvious duplicates here being part of the cards on the trading block.

Always extra nice to get a Jays pick up or two - Bassitt being a nice addition. Happy we continue to see stars and not just a run of the "not so star" cards.

Sweet - Ohtani. Actually, that photo is beautiful and the swing looks so effortless for the man. May have been a bit nicer if he had made it into a Jays uniform, but I gather if that happened, Vladdy Jr. wouldn't have been kept with the team so, I guess I'm happy enough we got Vladdy to stay instead.

Even better than a Jays card, a Jays card with the entire team! Loved that these cards are in the set. I know, it may be hard to recognize and see all the players in the picture given the size, but having the full team picture on a card is fabulous.

A great, above average, day of cards from the 2026 Lot, hopefully more will follow!