2026 A&G Blaster

I have actually stumbled upon some cards out in the wild lately.  I have tried to take advantage of it as much as possible.  The first time, there was just one blaster of Allen & Ginter available.  I was skeptical as I have not had a ton of luck with A&G in the past.  This one worked out quite well though. 

1.  Cy Young.  I don't really know, but I don't think the Boston (they were not the Red Sox yet and were not really called anything) uniforms were red.  I think this is added in now to make it identifiable with the team they became.  Young was Boston's first huge star (though Jimmy Collins was also on the team) and helped them win the first ever World Series in 1903.  He was 2-1 with a 1.85 ERA in 34 innings pitched in four World Series games.  He notched 17 strikeouts and just four walks.  

2.  Roman Anthony.  Anthony is the odd man out in the category of World Series heroes with the Red Sox.  Anthony didn't play in the postseason last year due to injury and he played in just the first game this year, again due to injury.  Time will tell if he eventually joins the other four players in this post as World Series heroes.

3.  Carl Yastrzemski.  Yaz played in two World Series, in 1967 and 1975.  Yaz followed up his amazing 1967 season by hitting .400/.500/.840 with ten hits, four doubles and three home runs in the World Series loss against the Cardinals.  He drove in five runs, scored four runs, walked four times and struck out just once.  Had Boston won, he likely would have been the MVP.  He followed that up with a .310/.382/.310 mark in the 1975 Series loss to the Reds.

4.  Manny Ramirez.  Ramirez was the 2004 World Series MVP, the first such award winner in Red Sox history.  He hit .412/.500/.588 with one home run and four RBIs.  He kind of won it by default because no one really stood out above everyone else.  He also played in the 2007 Series, but hit a much more modest .250/.333/.313 with just two RBIs.

5.  Tris Speaker.  Speaker played in two World Series with the Red Sox, in 1912 and 1915.  In 1912 he hit .300/.382/.467 with a double, two triples, two RBIs and a stolen base.  In 1915 he hit .294/.429/.412 with a triple.