Just Cards, No Bubble Gum

Today's trade post highlights a brand new trading partner, Jeff of Wish They Still Came with Bubble Gum.  Jeff loves all things Braves, so I packed him up a bubble mailer with as many Atlanta (and some Milwaukee) cards as I could get my hands on.  In return, I got a nice batch of new Sox!

Aside from a few of the 10th Anniversary Buybacks I picked up, I got my very first taste of 2015 Allen & Ginter proper with this PWE.  Pablo here's been out of the lineup.  Team calls it a "respiratory illness", I call it "so out of shape he got gassed scoring from 3rd base on a sac fly".  It's entirely possible he doesn't even come back to the team this season, and why should he?  They're playing better without he and Hanley Ramirez in the lineup than they have all season with them.

The other base card I got was Bryce Brentz, the guy who seems to be in just about every single Topps product in 2015, despite getting into just 9 games last year (and 0 so far in 2015).

I like these Starting Points inserts, one of the better ideas for the large insert set that I've seen in the past few years of A & G.

Jeff found another Opening Day card I was missing as well, think I'm just a card or two away from having this one complete at this point.

I'm up over a dozen cards now featuring Canseco with the Red Sox, and I love each and every one of them just because it's so odd to see him with Boston.

Still rounding out last year's Heritage set, and still can't believe the Sox actually won the World Series in 2013...

I was just talking the other day about how the 2003 Upper Deck flagship set has really started to grow on me, and Jeff delivered with a pair of them!  Pitchers Tim Wakefield...

...and Ramiro Mendoza.  This one is really appreciated, since Ramiro was a pitcher on the inaugural Norwich Navigators AA team that I was so crazy about in the mid-'90s.

To close things out, let's go with some shiny.  A David Ortiz refractor from the latest Topps Chrome set (which I'm a big fan of)...

...and a purple chrome from Topps Heritage.  I've mentioned this a couple of times before, but it amazes me that someone with as much raw talent as Yeonis seems to have can be shuffled between teams as frequently as he has been the past couple of years.  I'll be pulling for Cespedes and the Mets in the NL playoffs this year for sure.

Jeff, thanks for a great package!  I've got some Braves loaded up, so hopefully we can exchange a PWE every so often going forward...