We made it to the end of the work week. I would hope everyone is doing well. Here in southern Illinois we are getting a few snow flurries today with little to no accumulation expected. That is a far cry for anyone on the east coast. I hope the forecast is wrong about all the snow and wind that is headed that direction, but it sounds like it could be a rough few days. If it does happen, maybe all the collectors can spend time in their card room and catch up on any scanning and/or filing they need to do. That is part of my plan for Saturday.
I am down to 4 stacks of cards on my desk. My goal is to get them all scanned and the trades recapped before the next wave of envelopes arrive next week. Today's recap is a nice batch of Cardinals from Trading Bases member Chris D. I believe this is the first time I have had the pleasure of exchanging cardboard with him.
Since it is snowing, I will start off with a couple of snowflake cards. The 2021 Flaherty completed my Holiday base set. The Carpenter is a metallic parallel from 2016.
Let's move to thoughts of spring with a couple of green Gypsy Queen cards. These cards make me think of mowing grass. Glad I will not have to do that for a few months. Martinez from the 2017 set, Molina the 2020 set.
Rainbow foil parallels are not as tough to find as the gold cards, but I have yet to complete a team set of them either. Hicks if from 2020, Molina 2018 Update.
The Paul DeJong portion of the trade features a 2020 Stadium Club red parallel and a 2020 GQ chrome box topper. At first I thought the Stadium Club photo was showing DeJong turning a double play, but he is making a throw to third base. Maybe he turned the dp anyway. The baby blue uniform looks great with the chrome finish.
I will finish up with a trifecta of Cardinals pitchers. Wainwright is a 2012 refractor, Reyes a 2017 Class 2 , and Gibson a 2021 base card. You could say these are Cardinals aces from the past, present, and future. At least I am hoping Reyes can be an ace. It sounds like the Cardinals are giving him a shot to start this season. Wainwright, Flaherty, Hudson, Mikolas, and Matz are the top 5. If it is like any other recent year, one of them will have a season ending injury before the season even starts and Reyes will get his chance.
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