Beckett 20 questions on … MLB prospects
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
The next issue of Beckett Baseball is all about our top prospects for 2015, so this edition of 20 Questions is all about prospects. (Don’t worry if that’s not your thing — we snuck in a few rookie, licensing and Draft questions, too.)
Give us your assessment of MLB’s prospecting crop with our 20 Questions below and feel free to leave any comments if necessary.
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Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
I think we all wish there should be on two real rookie cards. Every player should have a draft year card and then a rookie card of when they actually hit the majors. Getting sick and tired of seeing the same prospects in every product till they hit the majors. By basic definition it isn’t a real rookie card until they hit the majors, its a prospect card which delute the value of that players cards when you have three to five years of that guy before he hit the majors.
I believe there are too many rookie cards out there which in my opinion isn’t good for the hobby overall. Maybe a few draft pick cards and that’s it.
I’ll be watching Carlos Correa next season. Hope he makes it to Houston finally.
I wish Topps would start making bowman autograph rookies of some of these players a little sooner like Kris Bryant and Jacob Degrom for example. So as a prospector who follows the Top 20 on every team, we could buy there autographs at a decent price, instead of throwing them in product because they are hot. Then the only way to get the autograph is pay hundred of dollars on the secondary market or bust 24 boxes of product. There are probably 100 players that dont have a bowman chrome autograph at the moment that I wish had a card that I could buy.
Prospecting is extremely enjoyable for me. I too however greatly dislike including the same prospect in multiple releases or in multiple years.
Whether you begin printing cards of a guy the year he signs his first contract or a couple years later I say give the guys one year to have the prospect logo similar to the rule for the RC logo. I understand guys can be prospects for multiple years but there are plenty other guys out there that would be fun to collect.
If they ever did that it would be cool to allow additional years if they got traded, i.e. Addison Russell from A’s to Cubs.
Jorge solder….mid- season blowout!!