2016 Phillies - First Topps Cards

I went through this exercise after last season, and I thought I'd try it again.  For no other reason than I thought it would be cool to see the Topps flagship baseball card origins of the 2016 Phillies, here are all the first Topps flagship baseball cards of the manager, coaches and players.

1970 Topps #539

1974 Topps #597

1976 Topps #599

1978 Topps #134

1984 Topps Traded #105T

1988 Topps Traded #71T

2004 Topps Traded #T114

2005 Topps #689

2007 Topps Update #UH99

2008 Topps #463

2008 Topps Update #UH177

2009 Topps #441

2009 Topps Update #UH4

2010 Topps #355

2010 Topps Update #US-59

2010 Topps Update #US-89

2010 Topps Update #US-146

2011 Topps #165

2011 Topps #554

2011 Topps Update #US235

2012 Topps #585

2012 Topps Update #US304

2013 Topps #83

2013 Topps #268

2013 Topps Update #US71

2014 Topps #115

2014 Topps #451

2014 Topps #637

2015 Topps #309

2015 Topps #687

2015 Topps Update #US52

2015 Topps Update #US95

2015 Topps Update #US148

2015 Topps Update #US166

2015 Topps Update #US258

2016 Topps #2

2016 Topps #27

2016 Topps #133

2016 Topps #419

2016 Topps #421

2016 Topps #432

2016 Topps #488

2016 Topps #610

2016 Topps Update #US39

2016 Topps Update #US95

2016 Topps Update #US247

No Topps (base or update) Phillies cards to date (11):  Jorge Alfaro, Zach Eflin, Dalier Hinojosa, Rich Kranitz CO, Michael Mariot, Roman Quinn, Edubray Ramos, Joely Rodriguez, Patrick Schuster, Daniel Stumpf and Jake Thompson.

Memory Lane
2015 Phillies - First Topps Cards

2016 Chachi #71 Leading Firemen - Gomez, Neris, Mariot

Perhaps the hardest thing to watch during the latter part of the Phillies season was the complete implosion of Jeanmar Gomez as the team's closer.  Unofficially removed from the closer's roll during the final weeks of September, Gomez tallied a 19.13 ERA (17 earned runs in 8 innings) over his final 12 games.  The emergence (and dominance) of Hector Neris as an extremely effective late inning reliever means that he's probably one of the few pitchers guaranteed a spot in the team's 2017 bullpen.

Memory Lane - Chachi Leading Firemen Cards
2005 - Billy Wagner, 38
2006 - Tom Gordon, 34
2007 - Brett Myers, 21
2008 - Brad Lidge, 41
2009 - Brad Lidge, 31
2010 - Brad Lidge, 27
2011 - Ryan Madson, 32
2012 - Jonathan Papelbon, 38
2013 - Jonathan Papelbon, 29
2014 - Jonathan Papelbon, 39
2015 - Jonathan Papelbon, 17 (no card created)
2016 - Jeanmar Gomez, 37

2005 Chachi #59

2006 Chachi #68

2007 Chachi #66

2008 Chachi #62