40 Card Trade

Up next is a pretty big TCDB trade with a lot of completely random stuff in it.  Let's dive right in.

1.  Wade Boggs.  I am not really sure how I didn't have this card previously.  Must have slipped by me.

2.  Carlos Quintana.  There are really not many Quintana cards out there I don't have.  Long-time readers of this blog know he was one of my first under-the-radar favorites.  

3.  Tanner Houck.  It is getting more and more likely that he will not return this season.  That's a shame.

4.  Cutter Coffey.  He was traded away at the deadline in 2024 as part of the package that brought Danny Janzen from Toronto.  That turned out to not be a great deal.

5.  J.D. Martinez.  Martinez is one of those guys that card companies make a ton of cards of, but nobody really collects, even though he's really good.  He just isn't a guy that has that much of a hobby following.  I always get a ton of cards of him in deals or offered to me.  Manny Ramirez was that kind of player too.

6.  Jackie Bradley Jr.  I still love getting cards of JBJ.  His defense was truly special.  I still can't believe he only won one Gold Glove.

7.  Xander Bogaerts.  This trade will have a lot of guys from the last few years.

8.  Eduardo Rodriguez.  I really like E-Rod.  Wish he would have stayed, but I can say that about a lot of the guys in this post.

9.  Pedro Martinez.

10.  Carl Yastrzemski.  Still the only player to get his 3,000th hit with the Red Sox.  Only four other players who played for the Red Sox are in the 3,000 Hit Club.  Speaker got his with the Indians, Boggs with the Devil Rays, Henderson with the Padres and Beltre with the Rangers.  

11.  J.D. Martinez.  Here is card #2 of Martinez.

12.  Chris Sale.  Sale is kind of like J.D. Martinez for the reason I talked about earlier for some reason.  

13.  Derek Lowe.  One of a select group of players to have a 20 win season and a 40 save season, Lowe also threw a no-hitter once.  A very underrated pitcher.

14.  Derek Lowe.

15.  J.D. Martinez.   Card #3.

16.  Xander Bogaerts.

17.  Chris Sale.  I like this card and really want that sweatshirt.

18.  David Ortiz.  Nice shot of the scoreboard on the Green Monster in the background of this card, featuring Ortiz crossing home after a home run.

19.  Rafael Devers.  I said on Twitter recently that I will never dislike Devers.  I may have a better understanding of the trade, but I loved him during his time in Boston.  He was a great player and a lot of fun to watch.  I hate the fact he is no longer in Boston.

20.  Connor Seabold.  Seabold is on his third team (and fourth franchise) this year as he has appeared in three games with the Rays.

21.  J.D. Martinez.  Card #4.

22.  Rafael Devers.  The Devers trade just got a little worse at the deadline as Boston dealt James Tibbs, the only position player they received in the deal and a first-round pick last year, for Dustin May, who has struggled this season.  Tibbs probably is not going to be that good, but it's extremely frustrating that the players in that trade are now Jordan Hicks, a struggling reliever, Kyle Harrison, who is still trying to figure things out in Worcester, and a lottery ticket arm.  What a terrible trade.

23.  Tim Wakefield.  I love getting Wakefield cards.

24.  Tim Wakefield.

25.  Fred Lynn.  Another card from the 2024 Panini Prizm team set, still not one of the ones I wanted the most though.

26.  Johnny Pesky.  Pesky is another guy that I just love getting cards of, even though I never saw him play.  He is Mr. Red Sox because he spent 60 years in the organization in various roles.  

27.  Miguel Bleis.  He finally made it to Double A.  It seems like he has been in the system forever because he was so highly touted a couple years ago, but he is just 21.  He will need to be protected on the 40 Man Roster or risk being lost in the Rule 5 Draft this winter.  He should have been traded otherwise.

28.  Rafael Devers.

29.  Alex Verdugo.  It will be interesting to see what he does next.  His career has really fallen off a cliff.

30.  Trevor Story.  Probably the new version of J.D. Martinez.  I get a lot of his stuff in trades too.

31.  Chris Sale.

32.  Ted Williams.  Interesting shot, not really sure what is happening here.

33.  Carlton Fisk.  Fisk is receiving some kind of award in this shot, but I have no idea what it is.  It can't be his Rookie of the Year award because the Red Sox were not wearing uniforms like that in 1973.  I have no idea.

34.  Masataka Yoshida.  I really need Yoshida to start hitting.  He has two more years on his contract, but it is just not looking good right now.

35.  Masataka Yoshida.

36.  Tim Wakefield.

37.  Roger Clemens.

38.  Miguel Bleis.

39.  Johnny Damon.  I hereby decree the Yankee years never happened.  Johnny Damon was always either a Royal or a Red Sox.  I can get on board with his brief stints with the Athletics, Tigers, Rays and Indians, but I refuse to believe he ever played with the Yankees.  Same goes for Jacoby Ellsbury.

40.  Ted Williams.