Royal Rumble 2009 CONTEST: Gettin' Out the Repack

I thought it might be time for me to come in from the bullpen to relieve dayf and timrooks, who are both kicking ass on this blog as of late. Since I'm pretty sparse with my posts here, I thought we'd have a fun contest today. If you're a wrestling geek like I am (anybody? *crickets*) you should know that tonight WWE (formerly WWF) will hold their annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view. The Royal Rumble match is my favorite gimmick match in wrestling. It's a 30-man battle royal, where you have to throw your opponents over the top rope to the floor to eliminate them from the match. Last man standing wins. But the twist is this: the match starts with just two men in the ring, and another wrestler enters every two minutes afterward until all thirty men have entered. It allows for some creative scenarios to unfold instead of the usual horrendous clusterfrick that occurs when thirty large, muscly men are all trying to fight at the same time. Plus, you get the anticipation of counting down from ten seconds every two minutes...the buzzer sounds...and someone else's theme music hits. Who will it be this time?

Anyhoodle, here's what I'm going to do. I bought a 10-pack repack box from Sports Authority last weekend, and I've grabbed five packs that total 30 cards:

-2006 Topps Opening Day (7)
-2006 Fleer Ultra (5)
-2006 Topps Series 2 (6)
-2004 Fleer Hot Prospects Draft Edition (5, with one disqualification bringing it to 4)
-2006 Upper Deck Series 1 (8)

I'll number the cards in the order that they're pulled and ask you to choose a number from 1 to 30 and leave your number in the comments to this post. Each number can only be chosen once. I'll cut this off at 9:30 PM EST, which is roughly the time that the Rumble match should start. Your number corresponds to the wrestler that enters the Rumble at that numbered slot. If your guy wins the match, you get a prize! The prize will be an assortment of cards from the team of your choice. Pick wisely...

P.S. I'm running late with this, so scans will come later.

2006 Topps Opening Day

1. Barry Zito - The $126 Million Dollar Man will have a tough road to victory today!
2. Alex Rodriguez - Uh-oh, it's the villainous A-Fraud!
3. Jason Bay - Hailing from British Columbia, it's the Canadian Clubber!
4. Danny Sandoval RC - 31 major league games in an 11-year pro career? Your wrestling gimmick is Mr. Coffee, as in cup of.
5. Nomar Garciaparra - Who needs a wrestling name when your birth name is NOMAAAAAHH?
6. Tadahito Iguchi Rookie Cup - Watch out for the mysterious green mist sprayed by the devious Iguchi.
7. David Ortiz (front)/Dontrelle Willis (back) Funny Photos - How appropriate! Big Papi has clamped a bear hug on Rafael Furcal. There is no escape!

2006 Fleer Ultra

8. Shannon Stewart - I forgot that he played for the Twins. I hereby dub thee "Twinkie".
9. Jake Peavy - Also known as "Ace", a nickname he can borrow from 1980s mainstay Bob Orton.
10. Julio Lugo - Um...Lex Lugo?
11. Robinson Cano Rising Stars - Switch it to Kano and he can go with a Mortal Kombat gimmick.

12. Brad Radke Gold Medallion - He was just elected to the Twins Hall of Fame, so we'll go with Goldenarm.

2006 Topps Series 2

13. Jason Lane - I guess he'd take to the ring with a hockey mask and machete.
14. Jason Vargas - Jason and Jason? Sounds like a tag team.
15. Moises Alou - Would be the Hitman, the second-generation star from the great Alou family.
16. Jon Lieber - Translating his last name from German, he will wrestle as "Loverboy".
17. Chris Young - At 6'10", he is the Tower of Doom.
18. Jamie Moyer - Now 46 years old and still plugging away. Rip Van Vader.

2004 Fleer Hot Prospects Draft Edition

19. Todd Helton - Went from Tennessee to Colorado. Rocky Top is a no-brainer nickname.
DQ. Nomar Garciaparra - You can't enter the Rumble twice! I started posting and realized that I'd forgotten to account for the extra Funny Photos card in the Opening Day pack. So Nomar must go, having already popped up in the first pack.
20. Jim Thome and Pat Burrell Hot Tandems - I normally wouldn't permit a tag team to enter as one, but the Philadelphia Phantoms can be very persuasive. E-C-Dub!

21. Carlos Delgado - El Hombre.
22. Lyle Overbay - Hails from Washington state, just like Ted Bundy and Green River killer Gary Ridgway. I'm thinking of a serial killer gimmick: Lyle Wayne Overbay.
(Leave it to Fleer to put "draft" and "prospects" in the name of a product, and then give me a pack that has neither of the above.)

2006 Upper Deck Series 1

23. Luke Scott - LUUUUKKKKEEE! He is a proud gun owner. I say Cool Hand Luke.
24. Jason Marquis - Snooty Frenchman Marquis de Jason? Oui!
25. Brian Lawrence - Attended Northwestern State University of Louisiana, whose mascot is the Demon. His nickname is self-evident. Just don't confuse him with the KISS Demon, played by Jeff Torborg's son Dale.
26. Carlos Zambrano - The hotheaded Big Z is a force to be reckoned with.
27. Aaron Rowand - A dark horse in this match could be scrappy cruiserweight "Crash" Rowand!
28. Kirk Saarloos - The Sar-loose Cannon?
29. Bob Gibson Diamond Debut - WOW! A surprise entrant at #29! Hit the deck, it's Hoot the Headhunter!

30. Robert Fick - Sure, he used to be a valuable and versatile hitter, but I look at him and see "Third Bushwacker".

Wow, I have wayyy too much time on my hands. Tell you what...If you're especially curious and impatient, I'll live-blog the Rumble match on my Orioles blog. Updates should start some time around 10 PM. Now get those guesses in, you pencil-neck geeks!

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 7

This is the seventh and final pack in the contest. The total through the first six is 246 points. We've seen A-Rod, Helton (twice), Slammin Sammy, Tejada, Larry Walker, Vlad the Impaler, Larry Wayne MickeyFickey Jones, Old Blood Sock, and an amalgam of riff-raff and detritus. Here comes pack #7, hoping to end with a bang.


Gabe Kapler = 0 points
After a decade of meh, had a decent 229AB (117 OPS+) for the Brewers last year. That might have been his swan song.

Scott Rolen = 8 points
As good as he's been, he's only cracked the MVP top-ten once, in '04. He'd better have a long and gradual decline phase if he wants to make the HOF.


Corky Miller = 0 points
Has logged all of 335 big league ABs, including 60 last year for the Braves.

Drew Meyer - Draft Pick = 0 points
I'd like to assign negative points for a 1st round pick that has logged all of 14 AB in the bigs.


Eric Owens = 0 points
Once again Topps uses the same photo for the inset and the main image. I understand it's a lot of work to put together a base set of this size, but that is what we're paying you for. Stop cutting corners on the base set, Topps. That's right, folks, I'm ranting at Topps about a five-year-old set, because they haven't changed.

Randy Johnson - Award Winner - 2002 NL Cy Young = 37 points
Well that's three points right there on the card. Add in the Unit's 10 All-Star teams and his other either top-three Cy finishes, including FOUR. STRAIGHT. AWARDS. from '99 to '02, and we've got a lot of points.


Rondell White = 1 point
Made an All-Star team for the Padres in '03. Hard to say why, exactly.

Cliff Politte = 0 points
"Politte" is so close to "Petitte", yet so very, very far.


Philadelphia Philles
Without looking it up, I'm going to assume that these guys actually outscore Vladdy.

Reggie Taylor = 0 points
Who? Had 287 AB for the Reds in '02, and only 507 total for his career. Last seen in the bigs in '05.

The Unit puts this pack on his shoulders. A total of 46 points brings the contest total to 292. Remarkably, there were two guesses within one point. Aaron had 293, but ladydoth came in a day earlier at 291. I'll give Aaron some bonus points to be applied to the next contest. ladydoth, check your email and let me know where to send the cards to.

Thanks everyone for playing along. I'll be running another contest next week.

2006 Ba-ZOO-ka Baseball

Old packs of Bazooka are fun, but they never have any players I like in them. Based on this indisputable fact, and because each pack comes with a piece of gum that looks as if it were manufactured and packaged by Springbok, we're going to go through this pack and make a comparison between each player/card and a popular brand of chewing gum.

Let's tear in. (Get your jaws ready.)

Top to Bottom:
125 Jorge Posada Blue Parallel (Black Jack. Jorge has proudly worn the black and white of the Bronx Bombers since 1995.)

66 Curt Schilling Gold Parallel (Trident. Not from a fresh pack, mind you, but an eight-year-old piece that your mom finds in the bottom of her purse that has hairs and bits of Kleenex stuck to it. Even this card is creased right down the middle.)

16 of 24 Texas Rangers Cartoon (Bazooka, naturally.)

2 of 12 Checklist featuring Nick Johnson, Paul Konerko, Raul Ibanez, and Todd Helton (Gum from a machine propping open a barber shop door, the profits from which go to the American Foundation for the Blind. Just 'cause you get a whole handful of 'em, don't mean they taste any good. Good luck not swallowing your fillings after their forced removal.)

89 Chris Carpenter (PAL. Those little pieces of PAL gum are the workhorses of the gum industry, just like Carpenter was in 2005. Thirteen straight decisions and a 21-5 record earns him the distinction.)

18 Wily Mo Pena (Chiclets. Just because, señor.)

108 Carl Crawford (Bubble Tape. Emerging star on a new-ish team with flashy, cool logos. Carl Crawford and his 6'2" frame is six feet of Bubble Tape personified.)

14 Mike Sweeney (Extra. Sweeney has only played for the Royals over his 17-year career, except for last year when he was with Oakland. Perhaps that knocks him down to one of the derivative flavors, like Cool Watermelon. Rejoining the Royals to end his career might put him back atop that Peppermint pedestal.)

Make it a point today to gave a good chew.

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 6

This is the sixth pack in the contest. The first five packs scored a total of 192 points with A-Rod, Helton (x2), Sosa, Tejada, Larry Walker, Vlad the Impaler, and assorted other ducksnorts. Pack #6 will be the penultimate, but will it be the pinnacle?


Scott Erickson = 4 points
In '91 he was 23 years old and had a 20-8/3.18/1.275 season. He made the All-Star team and finished second in the Cy Young voting. It looked like the start of a long and stellar career. Turns out it was long: he pitched until 2006, a total of 2360 IP. Stellar, though, it was not. That '91 season was the best he'd have. He finished with a career ERA+ of 98.

Keith Foulke = 1 point
This is a typical example of a shoddy work by Topps for the base set. A posed studio portrait for the big image and the EXACT. SAME. IMAGE. for the smaller inset? That's just horrible. Foulke received Cy Young votes twice, but never cracked the top three. He made an All-Star team in 2003. He logged 31 IP for the A's last year, and is currently a free agent.


Curt Schilling = 15 points
Finally a stud pitcher from these packs. Schill is a six-time all-star, and finished second in Cy Young voting three times. He's a 42-year-old free agent coming off of a season missed due to shoulder surgery.

Brad Ausmus - Award Winner - 2002 NL Gold Glove = 1 point
Yes! A double! I love doubles! Maybe if I say it enough it will become true.


Bill Mueller = 0 points
A decent hitter; career OPS+ of 109. Received MVP votes in 2003, finishing 12th.

Vance Wilson = 0 points
Wilson was a backup catcher for the Mets and then the Tigers.


J.D. Drew = 4 points
Just 4 points. He made his first All-Star team in '08. He finished sixth in MVP voting in 2004. He's one of those guys that we will always wonder what could have been had he been able to stay healthy.

Fernando Tatis = 0 points
Came out of nowhere to hit 34 bombs in '99. Promptly returned to the nowhere he came from, though he showed up again last year to post a 123 OPS+ in 273AB for the Mets. This card can go in the Topps Calisthenics Cards binder. Seems like there are a lot of those.


Esteban Loaiza = 5 points
Who would have thought this guy has more points than J.D. Drew? Finished second in Cy voting in '03, and made an All-Star team that year and the following.

Chipper Jones = 24 points
Larry Wayne shows 'em how it's done. Six All-Star teams, six MVP top-tens. Interestingly, he won the hardware in 1999 but was not on the All-Star team. Anyone know if that's been done other times?

Fifty-four points is a big number, thanks to Schill and Chipper. The contest total bumps to 246. If you haven't gotten a guess in yet, send it in before noon tomorrow, when the final pack will be posted. Good luck, all!

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 5

This is the fifth pack in the contest. The first four packs scored a total of 154 points with A-Rod, Helton (x2), Sosa, Tejada, Larry Walker, and lesser luminaries. Let's see what kind of noise pack #5 can make.


Steve Sparks = 0 points
I always like pulling a knuckleballer. I saw his last hurrah with the DBacks in 2004. It was not pretty. ERA that season: 6.04.

Gary Glover = 0 points
This is the second player from these packs that has me scratching my head. The first was also a White Sox pitcher. Glover has pitched 516 innings in the bigs, including 34 last year for the Rays. I was following the Rays all year, and I don't remember him at all. He's a free agent now. Someone will get him. Teams always need arms.


Dean Palmer = 1 point
Finally, a point scored. One of my collecting ideas is to put together a binder of the career home run leaders list. Once you get past the first five or six pages, you'll be amazed at who shows up. Like Palmer, here, who will be right next to Roger Maris on page 17. Both had 275 HR. Palmer is another one of those guys that faded out in his early thirties. He made an All-Star team in '98, and won Silver Sluggers in '98 and '99.

Brad Radke = 4 points
Amazingly, Radke is the first pitcher we've opened to get a point for a top-3 Cy Young appearance; he finished third in '97. He made the All-Star team in '98. If I had a binder of the career wins leaders list, Radke would nestle in on page 27, next to Firpo Marberry, Johnny Podres, and Aaron Sele. He might slip a spot this year if Livan Hernandez wins a couple.


Julio Franco = 6 points
Hard to believe it's just six points for Father Time. Three All-Star selections, and he finished eighth for MVP in '94. The man played forever, though. He had an above-average bat for Atlanta in '05, at the age of 46. That has to be a record for the oldest season of OPS+ above 100.

Brad Ausmus - Award Winner - 2002 NL Gold Glove = 1 point
Another surprise. Ausmus has been a solid regular forever, and has made but one All-Star team, in '99. He's never had a strong bat, though.


Vladimir Guerrero - Sporting News All-Star = 26 points
I'm surprised how high this is. Vladdy never has gotten a lot of press, playing for the Expos and then the Angels. But he's been all-over the All-Star teams and the MVP ballots. He won the trophy in '04, with a .337/39/126/15 effort. He's also only 33 this year. We could be looking at a first-ballot HOFer. He's 20th on the career OPS list.

Texas Rangers
It is entirely possible that Vladdy outscores this entire team, but I'm not going to try to verify that right now.


Scott Strickland = 0 points
240 innings of relief pitching in the bigs. He was good when he was good: career ERA+ of 131.

Craig Wilson = 0 points
A nice horizontal swing shot by Topps. That's another binder I'd like: bat swinging, ball in motion in the frame. I'm surprised Wilson never made an All-Star team; he was a decent bat on some bad Pirates teams for a few years.

Another star-and-scrubs pack for 38 points. We're sitting at 192 with two packs left to go. Get your guesses in before the Sunday pack is posted.

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 4

This is the fourth pack in the contest. The first three packs scored a total of 127 points with an A-Rod, two Heltons, a Sosa, a Tejada, and a good number of 1-point wonders. It is pack #4's turn to represent for 2003 Topps Series 2.


Damion Easley = 1 point
The ladies at Dinged Corners would like this card: ball in midair, player in midair (or almost), AND a smile. Easley made an All-Star team in '98, and also won a Silver Slugger that year.

Torii Hunter = 5 points
How can you not like a name that ends with "ii"? It's like he's a Latin plural. His middle name is Kedar, which just increases the coolness. He finished 6th in the MVP voting in '02. He made the All-Star team that year and also in '07.


Danny Wright = 0 points
It's not often that I open a pack from this decade and go "who is that?". Danny started 70 games for the White Sox from '01 to '04. He had 33 of them in '02, his only full season.

A.J. Pierzynski = 2 points
This guy is one of my hereoes entirely because of one play. When my boy starts playing baseball, I will show him that play when I teach him that you Always Run It Out. That's a life lesson, folks. No extra charge. Anthony John made All-Star teams in '02 and '06.


Arthur Rhodes = 0 points
Wow, zero points in a 17-year career. That's hard to do. Can someone find a pitcher with a longer career and zero points?

Larry Walker - Award Winner - 2002 NL Gold Glove = 17 points
Topps manages to get a photo of Walker displaying his athleticism without looking the least bit graceful. He also looks bored. "Ho hum, another sinking line drive. Guess I'll go catch it." Walker made five All-Star teams and had four top-ten MVP finishes. He won the hardware in '97 with a Coors-Field-fueled .363/49/130/33.


Roger Cedeno = 0 points
A great fielding outfielder until his speed left him. He never really had the bat to play full-time.

Bobby Abreu = 2 points
Yes, only 2 points. Criminally under-appreciated for his entire career, mostly because voters don't care about OBP. He has made two all-star teams, in '04 and '05, and he has received MVP votes in six different seasons, but has not cracked the top ten. I can't believe he is still a free agent. This guy is good enough to start for a championship club, even at age 35.


Kerry Ligtenberg = 0 points
I always called him Lightning Bug, because, well, why not? He had a good rookie season in '98, finishing 4th in ROY voting. By '05, he was done.

Kevin Mench = 0 points
I still wonder why batters warm up with big heavy things on their bats. Or, like we did in Little League, by swinging three or four bats at once. It is supposed to make you swing faster when you just have the weight of the single bat, but I wonder if anyone has studied it to see if it works.

There were a whole lot of blanks in this pack. Walker chipped in more than half of the 27 points. After the weakest pack so far, our total is now 154 points. Get those guesses in before the Sunday pack is posted. Remember, ties go to the earliest guesser.

2005 Donruss Team Heroes

This pack was showing on the outside of one of those repack boxes where you can see the four packs on the outside and there's some "bonus" stuff inside. I took this one specifically because it had a Donruss pack showing because, well, how often can you buy a "new" Donruss baseball pack anymore? Well, aside from that silly unlicensed stuff, of course...

Anyway, I failed to notice the fact that this is not the base Donruss set but instead a set called Team Heroes. And I'm pretty sure I've bought a pack or two of this before, which makes me doubly unobservant. Oops.

417 - Gavin Floyd (Floyd finally had a breakout season in 2008 for the White Sox, posting a 17-8 with a 3.84 ERA after showing promise earlier in his career. He only turns 26 this month, so he could be a solid starter for years to come. He looks like he's about 14 on this card, though.)
375 - Logan Kensing (I've never heard of this guy, but he's a right-handed reliever who logged a career high in innings and appearances in his fifth season with Florida.)

333 - Ervin Santana (Santana was an All-Star last season for the first time and finished 6th in Cy Young voting. Still, he'll probably always be the "other Santana.")

108 - Jason Jennings Showdown Red (I'm not sure what Showdown is supposed to mean, but I guess it translates to an excuse to have multi-colored parallels. Jennings is not very good.)
69 - Corey Patterson (Patterson is one of those players whose name only comes up in fantasy league discussions. He seems to struggle to find a job every season in the real league.)
52 - Abe Alvarez (Another guy I've never heard of. Alvarez hasn't appeared in the majors since 2006.)

34 - John Smoltz (I keep getting Smoltz cards lately. It must be a Red Sox thing.)

1 - Adam Kennedy (Kennedy tried to get out of St. Louis last season after they signed Felipe Lopez for the stretch run. Then the Cards tried to trade him this offseason and found no suitors. He'll likely be the starter at 2B again, which to Tony La Russa means about 100 starts.)

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 3

This is the third pack in the contest. The first two scored a total of 86 points on the strength of A-Rod, Helton (twice), and a string of 1-point wonders. Let's see what pack #3 can come up with.


Lee Stevens = 0 points
Had a decent career. 1012 games, 3332 AB as an average hitter with no speed. Played on three division-winning Rangers teams that lost to the Yankees in the first round each time.

Ray Durham = 2 points
All-Star selection in '98 and '00. He seems to be telling the photographer that he is not amused.


Geoff Blum = 0 points
Rare card: a good action shot in base Topps.

Joe Girardi = 1 point
That's more like it, Topps. Joe is in the swinging-bat pose on a practice field. He made an All-Star team in 2000 for some unknown reason.


Sammy Sosa - Sporting News All-Stars = 28 points
Slammin' Sammy. Seven-time All-Star. Seven-time MVP top ten, including winning it all in '98 (.308/66/158/18).

Miguel Tejada - Red Back = 10 points
Miggy takes a pitch for a ball in the Red Back game. Did anyone play this? Miggy has made four All-Star teams and has two top-ten MVP finishes, including winning it all in '02 (.308/34/131/7 in 162 games as a SS).


Jason Tyner = 0 points
More of a AAAA player than a MLB regular. Has only played 100 or more games twice, and has never had a season with a league average OPS.

Toby Hall = 0 points
Another career-long MLB scrub, though he did play 384 games in a three-year stretch for the Devil Rays from '03 to '05. Still, backup catcher beats my day job.


Ryan Drese = 0 points
The Dud Parade continues. Drese's only good season was '04, with 207IP of 4.20 ERA, for a 14-10 record. It looks like this photo may have been taken during a spring training rain delay.

Nick Johnson - Topps All-Star Rookie = 0 points
Nick the Stick has been swinging a decent one for the Nats for a few years now, though Dmitri Young has taken over the 1B job.


That's Sosa, Miggy, and a bunch of not much else for a total of 41 points. After three packs, we have 127 points. Get those guesses in to me before the final pack is posted Sunday.

2003 Topps Series 2 Contest - Pack 2

This is the second pack in the contest. The first pack had an A-Rod and a Helton and a total of 59 points. Let's see if this one can keep up the pace.


Milton Bradley = 1 point
Another member of the All-Time Best Names in MLB team. He garnered his first All-Star selection last year, and also received MVP votes for the first time in his career. He finished 17th, though, so no points for that. He is probably best known for blowing out his knee while yelling at an umpire. Well, for that and for being named Milton Bradley.

Joe Crede = 1 point
Crede also made his first All-Star team last year. He won a Silver Slugger in 2006, but no points for that. He's a slightly below average bat at 3B, and is currently a free agent. He's only 31 this season. Surely some team can use him.

Woody Williams = 1 point
For someone who did not pitch a full season in the bigs until age 30, he had a very nice career. 2216 IP, 132-116 record. He retired when the Astros cut him during spring training last year. Made one All-Star team: in 2003 when he was 12-3 with a 3.01 ERA at the break. He went 6-6, 5.23 the rest of the way.

Preston Wilson - Gold = 1 point
Our string of 1-pointers continues with Wilson, who made an All-Star team in 2003 and finished 16th in the MVP voting on the strength of a .282/36/141/14 season. In 1999 he finished 2nd to Scott Williamson for ROY. He played last for the Cardinals in 2007, and is currently a free agent.


Todd Helton - Award Winner - 2002 NL Gold Glove = 14 points
Another card of Helton, who we picked up in the first pack as well. Nothing to add here except that he was once a QB at the University of Tennessee, and was ahead of Peyton Manning on the depth chart. That reminds of the first episode of The Wonder Years, when the narrator says that when he was twelve years old he was a better quarterback than John Elway. Then he admits that Elway was five at the time.

Los Angeles Dodgers = 0 points
No points for team cards. The 2002 Dodgers won 92 games and finished third in their division. The DBacks won 98, the Giants 95. Shawn Green had a monster year, hitting .285/42/114 and finishing fifth in the MVP voting.


Cliff Floyd = 1 point
The one-point wonders continue after our brief break for a team card and a Helton. Floyd made the All-Star team in 2001. He received a few MVP votes that season, finishing 22nd. He finished 26th in 2005. He is a free agent right now, after playing in 80 games for the Rays last year.

Aaron Heilman / Jose Reyes = 5 points
Our second nice Prospects card in two packs. Heilman gets no points, but he's an established major league reliever. Reyes has made two All-Star teams, and has been on the MVP ballot in four different seasons. He's only cracked the top ten once, in 2006 when he finished 7th after a .300/19/81/64 season.

Matt Stairs = 0 points
Professional hitter. Didn't get a real chance at a MLB starting job until he was 29, but he still has 252 home runs. He only got MVP votes once, in 1999 when he went .258/38/102 for the A's and finished 17th. He hit a huge home run for the Phillies in the NLCS last year. He coaches hockey in the off-season, but I bet you could tell that just by looking at him.

Dan Plesac = 3 points
Plesac made three straight All-Star teams from '87 to '89, and even finished 22nd in the MVP voting in '88, though he did not receive any Cy Young votes that year. He was a good reliever for a long time, playing until age 41 and finishing with 1072 IP and an ERA+ of 117.

That's a lot of dinks and dunks, and one big blast from Helton, for a total of 27 points. Through two packs our point total stands at 86. Get those guesses in to me before the final pack is posted Sunday.