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2 "can't miss" prospects retire with little fanfare

olb31olb31 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The collecting world was all over Stephen Strasburg and Adam Jones when each came out. Cards were on fire. But both turned out to be just average with some great moments. I usually let things pan out a little before I start buying up people's cards unless its my favorite team.

Neither player's cards will ever be highly sought after.

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  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2023 11:18AM

    I stopped prospecting in baseball w/Gregg Jeffries…and unloaded my 1980s junk-wax cards to focus on vintage proven players (1980 and earlier…pre-junk wax era)

    mint_only_pls
  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    yep definitely forgot about him on my list. I bought a few of them when digging through rack packs. But I was wondered why he was so artificially inflated. He was a very slight guy. Nothing really stood out about him.

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  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • dontippetdontippet Posts: 2,606 ✭✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:
    yep definitely forgot about him on my list. I bought a few of them when digging through rack packs. But I was wondered why he was so artificially inflated. He was a very slight guy. Nothing really stood out about him.

    I think Gregg Jefferies was just the top prospect of the year, which just happened to be during the hype of investing in rookie cards.

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  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    yep van poppel

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  • waxman2745waxman2745 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:

    Greg Kittle

    Ron Kittle had almost 100 HR after his first 3 seasons but I think he got injured alot after that.

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  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2023 12:17PM

    I think I had 60 Gregg Jefferies…R.I.P.
    I remember using them as kindling in my firebox.

    mint_only_pls
  • RonSportscardsRonSportscards Posts: 942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevegarveyfan said:
    Kevin Seitzer
    Kal Daniels
    Bobby Bonilla
    B.J. Surhoff
    Walt Weiss
    Mike Greenwell

    I don't know about Bonilla on that list. Expectations were high, but he was no flash in the pan. Pretty solid career.
    Sort of like David Justice, who was hyped early, but was never really great. Pretty solid though.

    Surprised a 'stevegarveyfan' wouldn't include Greg Brock on their list. LOL

  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    as roberto duran said to sugar ray, "no maas".

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  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Let's put this in perspective. I don't think you can compare the junk era rookie busts to the modern rookie busts. I think at the peak Jefferies was $10 at shows. Most of those cards were maybe a few bucks each or less. It was a lot of money when you were a kid, but it was really a small time bet. Losing those bets didn't change your collecting.

    Mike
  • BBBrkrrBBBrkrr Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can throw Mark Prior in there too.

  • mark_dakmark_dak Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mintonlypls said:
    I stopped prospecting in baseball w/Gregg Jeffries…and unloaded my 1980s junk-wax cards to focus on vintage proven players (1980 and earlier…pre-junk wax era)

    Wait... What? Are you trying to tell me this isn't worth squat?

    Mark

  • daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's absurd to conflate, say, Jose Canseco and Don Mattingly on one hand with Jerome Walton, Dwight Smith, and Sam Horn on the other. I mean we have three groups of players here, guys who were good, but not as good as projected, guys who got hurt and had to retire or just never were the same, and guys who never panned out.

    I mean you can't have a group that has a guy who had a 127 OPS+ over more than 1000 games and a pitcher who had injuries keeping him from getting any higher than AA.

  • 82FootballWaxMemorys82FootballWaxMemorys Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 26, 2023 2:50PM

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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mintonlypls said:
    I think I had 60 Gregg Jefferies…R.I.P.
    I remember using them as kindling in my firebox.

    You got me, I googled him to see how he died. :D

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  • TNJabe29TNJabe29 Posts: 17 ✭

    @waxman2745 said:

    @olb31 said:

    Greg Kittle

    Ron Kittle had almost 100 HR after his first 3 seasons but I think he got injured alot after that.

    1984 was the pinnacle of my collecting as a kid. Still have a lot of them. Even have the hand cut out from the bottom of the 85 Donruss box.

  • GreenSneakersGreenSneakers Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭

    Every year 81-87 I picked one Topps rookie card to load up on.

    In 1983 there were three possibilities I could have done quite well on. But not so much. I own more Dave Hostetler rookies than anyone you know.

  • CakesCakes Posts: 3,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GreenSneakers said:
    Every year 81-87 I picked one Topps rookie card to load up on.

    In 1983 there were three possibilities I could have done quite well on. But not so much. I own more Dave Hostetler rookies than anyone you know.

    OMG I know that feeling. I have about 100 Ramon Martinez rookies but only one Pedro! :s

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  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2023 7:53PM

    Anyone hoard Devon White?

    mint_only_pls
  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a few of the White. Joyner's.

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