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Saturday, October 29, 2016

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.

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2015 Phillies - First Topps Cards

Monday, October 24, 2016

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