2024 trade package #11: Sport Card Collectors

Hi, friends! Do you like reading recaps of trade packages I received from a longtime blogging/Twitter buddy named Matt in May of this year? If so, you'll be excited about tonight's post being the second in a row to meet those requirements. This time it was Matt of Sport Card Collectors (and several other blogs). He tends to treat me to a PWE or two a few times each year, and that's exactly what he did a few months ago.

Here's what I pulled out of that PWE:

Javy's heating up enough to be considered an MLB star if only for a few recent games, but that's better than nothing! Since leaving Detroit, Jeimer's had a decent 2023 with the Nats, then an overall rough performance after being traded back to the Cubs. He sure looks cool in Detroit duds on a Topps Chrome Sepia Refractor, though. Who will Dick Mountain be pitching for late in the season? I hope we find out soon, but for now I'm excited about getting a card I actually needed of him from 2019 Topps Rainbow Foil. Update: he's back with the Red Sox!

Does Kaline belong in an inserted called Perennial All-Stars? He appeared in one (or both, where applicable) midsummer classics each season between 1955-1967, plus '71 and '74 so, uh, yeah, I'd say so! Tork's Pink Topps Chrome parallel is a reminder that he's still working his way back to the bigs with some nice power numbers and not much else at AAA Toledo. In better news for me, though, the baseball group ends with three many Verlanders! Oddly enough, all three of his MLB teams are represented here which is quite cool. Does he still have at least one more no-hitter left in him?

On the football side of things Matt came up with two Michigan uni cards and a couple more featuring two of the most prominent Wolverines to have starred in the NFL over the past 30 years. Interestingly enough, all four play defense too! DT Mo Hurst Jr. got a little play with Cleveland, his third NFL franchise, last year after missing 2022 due to injury, and we'll see if he sticks on their roster or elsewhere. Hutch is one of the most valuable defenders to come out of Ann Arbor and definitely lives up to his card's Elite billing with 21.0 sacks, 3 forced fumbles, 4 fumble recoveries, and 4(!) interceptions over his first two seasons. Mazi could use some positive momentum after Dallas selected him in last year's first round only to see him play relatively disappointingly, but hope springs eternal with a new season nigh. And lastly, Woodson is simply one of the top five best Wolverines to suit up in the NFL, which explains why you still see him in sets like 2023 Score (and its Red parallel) almost a decade after he retired.

Matt, thanks once again for one of your signature PWEs that always hit multiple PCs when you send them my way! I have a little stack going for you and I'm sure it won't be much longer before I'm hitting you back.

Up next I have one more trade package recap (from literally the other side of the country) and then a show post should finish out the month of May.