I think we look back and marvel at the size of Topps Total and Upper Deck 40-Man sets, but if you include the Update portion of recent Topps flagships, you'll find all these sets are comparably gigantic. The difference is repeated players. For instance, 2005 Topps Total features 33 different Reds on 25 cards and 2013 Topps features 27 different reds on 33 cards. So maybe I'm not as romantic about the Total/40-Man runs as I had thought I was, though I still want them back, with a true 40-man roster showing this time. If the Reds professional organization paid you money to play baseball, I want you to have your own card every year. Do it, Topps.
Total dropped their set size this year, their last, by doubling-up some lesser know players. Weak sauce. Among the palyers who only merited half of a card are Edwin Encarnacion and 4 RC's.
STATS:
Cards - 27
RC's - 4 (Craig Tatum, Javon Moran, Tyler Pelland, Jesse Guitierrez)
All Stars - 8 (Ken Griffey Jr., Jason LaRue, Danny Graves, Eric Milton, Sean Casey, Adam Dunn, Rich Aurilia, Edwin Encarnacion)
Reds Hall of Famers - 2 (Ken Griffey Jr., Sean Casey)
Umm...Who? - Around 15
Checklist:
29 Javier Valentin
31 Brandon Claussen
53 Paul Wilson
60 Ken Griffey Jr.
76 Jason LaRue
87 Felipe Lopez
95 Wily Mo Pena
138 Danny Graves
159 Eric Milton
183 Ryan Freel
185 Sean Casey
190 Adam Dunn
231 Joe Randa
251 Ramon Ortiz
424 D'Angelo Jimenez
525 Austin Kearns
573 Rich Aurilia
593 Jose Acevedo - Kent Mercker
605
Ryan Wagner - Aaron Harrang
617
David Weathers - Ben Weber
659
Luke Hudson - Joe Valentine
676 Matt Belisle - Josh Hancock
707 Ray Olmedo - Edwin Encarnacion
731 Craig Tatum - Javon Moran
746
Tyler Pelland - Jesse Gutierrez Go Reds.
I have a decent amount of Reds cards for trade. Mostly game used/parallels....Shoot me an email if you get a chance. Mattscott82@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love the two-player cards from that set, and man the Reds had a ton of them.
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