The signing front traveled to Frederick for visits from the Winston-Salem Dash (ugh) and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans over the downtime and things were reasonably productive.
Winston-Salem only produced two innings of baseball for me as we left during a long rain delay.
The game was eventually finished,but we were long gone.
The best pickup was outfielder Jordan Danks,who signed everything that we had and was very pleasant.
Danks turned out to be a bigger pickup after the fact as he was promoted to AA Birmingham shortly after the Dash left town,so this was the first and only chance to add the Texas product to the collection.
Third baseman Brent Morel was another notable addition from the less than prospect heavy squad from North Carolina.
The visit from the Pelicans was far more anticipated as the Braves affiliate offered several top prospects,but Jason Heyward stood above all.
Heyward is one of the top prospects in the game and I wanted to get his signature before the series ended as Myrtle Beach does not return to Frederick until late July,which should have Heyward entrenched in the AA Mississippi Brave lineup by then.
Heyward has even more significance to me as he was my first round pick in my fantasy league in his first year,so I really hope he succeeds.
Heyward doesn't sign before the game,so if you go to a game for him,expect to be there until the game ends,but once the game ends he signed for everyone and had no issues signing at all.
I was able to get all the cards signed that I needed and even was able to have Jason sign on the "sweet spot" of a SAL baseball,which he was reported to not do very often.
First baseman Freddie Freeman had a reputation of being erratic as far as signing,but I saw no indication of this as Freeman signed all five cards that I had for him and talked a bit as well.
The final of the Myrtle Beach "Big Three" was outfielder Cody Johnson,who might have been the nicest of all.
Johnson signed everything and thanked us for asking,that makes it pretty easy to root for Johnson's future as well.
Other Brave prospects that we added on the evening were pitcher Jeff Locke,second baseman Michael Fisher and speedy outfielder C.J. Lee.
Thanks to Ryan for helping with Winston-Salem and to the ever present Battlin Bob for helping with Myrtle Beach.
Picked a large bunch of cards from the Eastern League from our good friend Jason Christensen.
Jason helped me with a lot of cards from the Yankees and Red Sox AA squads that had built up from neither of those teams being in the area last season along with the Blue Jays,who never have teams here.
Notable Yankee additions include Zach McAllister,George Kontos,Eduardo Nunez and Marcos Vechionacci.
Red Sox pickups of note were Josh Reddick,Bryce Cox,Lars Anderson and Aaron Bates.
The top Blue Jay notable was 2008 first rounder David Cooper,who is a Razor exclusive,but unlike Kyle Skipworth will sign his other cards ,but only if personalized.
That doesn't bother me,so that works.
Cooper is reported by Jason to be "a real piece of work".
Thanks to Jason for all the help!
We will be in Frederick on Tuesday for the anticipated visit from Pedro Alvarez and the Lynchburg Hillcats and starting next Friday,Hagerstown returns from the road with the only visit this year from the Hickory Crawdads (Texas) and the Kannapolis Intimidators (Chicago White Sox),so we have plenty to get finished over the next week!
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