Insert Lot

Some time ago (I am way behind on this stuff), I bought an insert lot on Ebay primarily to plug some holes and grab some stuff on my wantlist.  It worked fairly well.  

1.  Jay Groome.  With the COVID-19 situation and a possible lost baseball season, I wonder how the development of prospects will be affected.  Groome finally got healthy last year, and now he might lose this season as well.  That can't be good.

2.  Pedro Martinez.  The Family Business insert reminds me that we never got a special card featuring both Pedro Martinez and his brother Ramon Martinez during the two seasons that they were together with the Red Sox.  Seems like the kind of thing that should be fixed.

3.  Carlton Fisk.

4.  David Ortiz.

5.  Chris Sale.  Sale recently had Tommy John surgery, in the first year of his nice new five-year contract.  He won't pitch for the first year-and-a-half of it.  That was money well-spent.

6.  Ted Williams/Mookie Betts.

7.  Mike Shawaryn.

8.  Carl Yastrzemski.

9.  Roger Clemens.

10.  Ryan Kalish.  Kalish is one of those players that was never really given much of a chance.  He was reasonably impressive in 2010, but didn't stay in the lineup afterwards.

11.  Ted Williams.

12.  Mookie Betts.  I will still probably try to complete this insert set.  It just is not terribly high on my priorities list after he was traded away.

13.  Mookie Betts.

14.  Mookie Betts.

15.  Michael Chavis. 

16.  Michael Chavis.

17.  Michael Chavis.

18.  Michael Chavis.  As you can see, lots of Chavis cards in the lot.

19.  Cy Young.  This is a manufactured patch for the first World Series.  Cy Young was one of Boston's first major stars, along with Jimmy Collins.  Topps should make some Collins cards.

20.  Mike Napoli.  Napoli was a big part of the 2013 World Championship team and hit 53 home runs during his three seasons in Boston. 

21.  Dustin Pedroia.  It remains to be seen whether Pedroia will ever make it back onto the field at this point.  If he doesn't he will go down as having an argument against Bobby Doerr for the best Red Sox second-baseman of all time.