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5 biggest rookie busts of the 90's
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How many of these cards do we all have stashed still? Lol
Inspired by Doug's van poppel post
90's rookie busts
Inspired by Doug's van poppel post
90's rookie busts
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<< <i>I'm not ashamed to admit that I searched ebay last week for a 1990 Upper Deck Ben McDonald w/ Orioles card. I wasn't going to buy one, but I wanted to see how available they were. >>
I confess, I actually want to get one.
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Josh Booty got a pretty nice signing bonus to do absolutely nothing for the Marlins -- and not even that much for LSU either; I guess Matt Anderson might not count for 90s players;
<< <i>I still have a stash of 1990 Leaf Marquis Grissom rookie cards >>
Me too, plus all the other brands. I couldn't even work a deal just to get rid of them with the 1 Marquis Grissom collector I found.
<< <i>I think Brien Taylor was part of the 90's....no bigger bust than his. >>
You beat me to it.
Tim Wakefield got really hot for a few months in the 90's! Mo Vaughn?
I suffered more through football busts in the 90's. Thanks Dan McGwire, Kijana Carter, Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Rashan Salaam and your other friends.
<< <i>I don't remember the pure hype around Taylor they way there was with Van Poppel. Van Poppel was legend, he contract was filled with all sorts of no power tools, cutting grass etc rules
Tim Wakefield got really hot for a few months in the 90's! Mo Vaughn?
I suffered more through football busts in the 90's. Thanks Dan McGwire, Kijana Carter, Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Rashan Salaam and your other friends. >>
Mo Vaughn was a stud in Boston. Then he signed a big contract with the NY Mets and disappeared. He was pretty big and I think had injury issues.
Does anyone remember the 1992 Fleer Rookie Sensation Cards that came in the 1992 Fleer Cello packs? The regular set was a really ugly green, but that subset was awesome. Blue and Glossy with Gold Font and really rare cards. You'd get like 12 in a cello box and the set had twenty-something cards so you really had a hard time finding them. I was buying as many of the Phil Plantier cards from that set as I could, but it also had Frank Thomas, Jeff Bagwell, Ray Lankford, Ivan Rodriguez, etc. Turns out it's a great set that got a lot right, but I think it has disappeared amongst the thousands of subsets during that era and is now irrelevant.
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I have so much of the 92 Fleer as a result its just a shame lol
You just peaked my interest. Going to go see what they are selling for and maybe pick a set up.
<< <i>92 Rookie Sensations, yes my favourite set of the 90's. I was big into Plantier as well! Lankford was great as well.
I have so much of the 92 Fleer as a result its just a shame lol
You just peaked my interest. Going to go see what they are selling for and maybe pick a set up. >>
There are no PSA 10 Thomas's and the 9's are selling for $75-100 so maybe it's not as irrelevant as I thought lol
Speaking of HOF, what is everyone's opinion on the big 3 from that set? Frank Thomas, Jeff Bagwell, and Ivan Rodriguez? Thomas probably played too long and it hurt his career average but he still broke 500 HR
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<< <i>How does one define "bust?" Taylor and Big Ben were both injured. Marquis Grissom had a very nice major league career. Gregg Jeffries, in my mind, was a bust. A lot of hype, but not much of a career. Same for Brad Komminsk and Shawn Abner. >>
jefferies had alot of hype and didn't live up to it, but i don't think he was a bust. according to b-r he was a 2x all star in st. louis and had a respectable career....too bad he didn't get a chance to play with big mac. '89-'90 were my years started collecting so all the names brought up here feel like old friends you haven't heard from awhile.
<< <i>Drew Henson would also like to enter this contest. Drafted in 1998 (3rd Round- for signability reasons) 6 years & 17M later ending with perhaps the greatest career triple slash ever - .111/.111/.111. (-40 OPS+) >>
Tom Brady laughs his way to the bank anytime anyone mentions the name Drew Henson.
I know this is a baseball thread, but the top busts ever in my mind for the '90's definitely include Jason Bonsignore and Ryan Leaf
JaMarcus Russell can wait until someone starts a more modern era's thread.
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I know this is a baseball thread, but the top busts ever in my mind for the '90's definitely include Jason Bonsignore and Ryan Leaf
JaMarcus Russell can wait until someone starts a more modern era's thread. >>
love the bonsignore reference, but i gotta go with alex daigle for hockey back then. daigle was the top pick in a draft that had pronger, kariya, gratton, rob niedermayer and a bunch of other serviceable or all star players. i was very disappointed tho when radek bonk and bonsignore didn't amount to more.
<< <i>i still have a soft spot for ben mcdonald...that '90 topps #1 draft pick card is legendary! >>
I have a PSA 10 of that Topps card. PM if interested.
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<< <i>I'm not ashamed to admit that I searched ebay last week for a 1990 Upper Deck Ben McDonald w/ Orioles card. I wasn't going to buy one, but I wanted to see how available they were. >>
I confess, I actually want to get one. >>
I have a really sweet PSA 8.5 that is begging to be resubbed - came from the exact same box my PSA 10 came from (no longer have this one) but were subbed at two different times. PM if interested.
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<< <i>I know this is a baseball thread, but the top busts ever in my mind for the '90's definitely include Jason Bonsignore and Ryan Leaf. JaMarcus Russell can wait until someone starts a more modern era's thread. >>
Football certainly had its fair share of busts. Remember the quarterback class of 1999 that was supposed to rival that of 1983.... not so much. Tim Couch, Akili Smith, Cade McNown, Daunte Culpepper, Shaun King, Brock Huard, Joe Germaine, Aaron Brooks ... at least Donovan McNabb had a decent career. Unfortunately, I bet big on Akili and lost.
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<< <i>How does one define "bust?" Taylor and Big Ben were both injured. Marquis Grissom had a very nice major league career. Gregg Jeffries, in my mind, was a bust. A lot of hype, but not much of a career. Same for Brad Komminsk and Shawn Abner. >>
jefferies had alot of hype and didn't live up to it, but i don't think he was a bust. according to b-r he was a 2x all star in st. louis and had a respectable career....too bad he didn't get a chance to play with big mac. '89-'90 were my years started collecting so all the names brought up here feel like old friends you haven't heard from awhile.
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Gotta admit...............if I saw this come up at auction............I would bid
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Van Poppel was awful. The top 3 picks in the '91 draft were supposed to be great but they turned out to be a dumpster fire: Brien Taylor, Mike Kelly and David McCarty.
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<< <i>How does one define "bust?" Taylor and Big Ben were both injured. Marquis Grissom had a very nice major league career. Gregg Jeffries, in my mind, was a bust. A lot of hype, but not much of a career. Same for Brad Komminsk and Shawn Abner. >>
jefferies had alot of hype and didn't live up to it, but i don't think he was a bust. according to b-r he was a 2x all star in st. louis and had a respectable career....too bad he didn't get a chance to play with big mac. '89-'90 were my years started collecting so all the names brought up here feel like old friends you haven't heard from awhile.
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Gotta admit...............if I saw this come up at auction............I would bid >>
Looks like quite a different signature on the 1989 Topps Jeffries compared to the other 2. The 1989 Donruss & 1990 Topps look close enough to each other, but the 1989 would give me pause for consistency. The 2 Ben McDonalds have a bit of variance, but probably a little more within the amount that could be expected.
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I know this is a baseball thread, but the top busts ever in my mind for the '90's definitely include Jason Bonsignore and Ryan Leaf
JaMarcus Russell can wait until someone starts a more modern era's thread. >>
love the bonsignore reference, but i gotta go with alex daigle for hockey back then. daigle was the top pick in a draft that had pronger, kariya, gratton, rob niedermayer and a bunch of other serviceable or all star players. i was very disappointed tho when radek bonk and bonsignore didn't amount to more. >>
True enough for sure, but Daigle had a significantly better overall career than Bonsignore, though that's not really saying much.
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Looks like quite a different signature on the 1989 Topps Jeffries compared to the other 2. The 1989 Donruss & 1990 Topps look close enough to each other, but the 1989 would give me pause for consistency. The 2 Ben McDonalds have a bit of variance, but probably a little more within the amount that could be expected. >>
all the jefferies are good. the sigs were signed many years apart, hence the difference. ben mcdonald's sig hasn't changed much through the years, and he's pretty good ttm.
<< <i>How about Eric Anthony of the Astros? He was being compared to Griffey Jr when he came up in 1989.
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+1 on Anthony
How about Walt Weiss?
<< <i>I'm surprised it took so long to reference Jefferies. What a disaster >>
As someone else mentioned, Jeffries was a 2 time all star and had a decent career but the hype surrounding him was almost impossible to live up to. His 88 donruss and fleer cards were 10-15 bucks before he even played (at the time that was crazy) He was 19 years old and the NY media went crazy hyping him.
St. Louis is where he really shined finishing in the top 20 in MVP twice. In 1993 he had over 40 stolen bases and batted .344. His stats were along the lines of Keith Hernandez for a while. He also struck out like once every 18 at bats for his career which is really low.
Where I'm going is that jefferies career was hardly a disaster, the disaster was the media being ready to put him in the HOF when he was 19.
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<< <i>Roger Salkeld was supposed to the next big thing.... >>
agree, I know I'm not the only one who had 50 card lots put aside of this guy......