We begin with thanks to Corey White for help with the Tennessee Smokies and their opponents.
Nice additions from the Mississippi Braves were Jose Peraza on the Carolina League prospects and All-Star cards,J.R.Graham on a 2013 CL prospect card and former number one pick Jason Hursh on a Bowman chrome and a rize card.
The Montgomery Biscuits (Tampa Bay) were led by Jake Hager on a Florida State prospect card,Richie Shaffer on an FSL prospect and a heritage.
The Chattanooga Lookouts (then Dodgers,Twins for 2015) only had a few,but Garrett Gould on a older Donruss Elite and Noel Cuevas on a California League all-star card led that bunch..
Kendall Morris took a trip to Texas and got me three top 100's on the trip with Austin Hedges (Padres catcher) signing in Texas and on a stop in Mississippi on the home added Reds pitchers Robert Stephenson and Daniel Carcillo on their cards among a few others scattered in.
Always love those top 100's!
We move to maybe the worst team that I've seen all year as Derreck,Brad and I did the Lowell Spinners in Aberdeen against the Ironbirds.
We did get a large amount of the Spinners and their team set finished,but you expect a day with a NY/Penn team to be smooth and that wasn't the case at all.
I did get manager and former Reds catcher Joe Oliver on his 90 score,but only at the bus after being no on three different occasions that covered before the game and after the game.
Former Padres first rounder Karsten Whitson was very nice though in signing his two USA cards and his Lowell card.
Whitson didn't sign with San Diego as he went to college as a Florida Gator.
Everything was a grind with this team,especially considering most of the team had just a team set card or two at the most.
My favorite was Bryan Hudson,who I had two cards for ,a Bowman and a Lowell card,telling me "one or the other,I just sign one"...
Derreck did the Ironbirds and knocked most of them out for me with the best catches being Alex Murphy on his NY/Penn top prospect card,a rehabbing Bobby Bundy on a minor heritage and Stephen Tarpley,who is now a Pirate from the Travis Snider trade...
He had to have had a much better time and Brad and I with Lowell.....
Thanks to Brett Shaw for finishing a few stragglers on the Richmond Flying Squirrels from the San Jose set.
The best was Hunter Strickland just before his promotion to the big club and Steven Okert on his San Jose card...
The final two teams in Frederick were the Salem Red Sox and Potomac Nationals.
Neither team had anything especially pressing prospect wise,but some leftover from team sets,past and present.
Salem's best was Simon Mercedes on his Carolina League top prospect and Carlos Asuaje on his SAL all-star card while Potomac's top was Pedro Severino on a team set card...
Jason Christensen added a few from my Florida State prospect with both Mets from the set signing in Brandon Nimmo (one of my favorites) and Steven Matz.
Jason also added Eddie Rosario and Jorge Polanco from New Britain (then Twins,now Rockies),but the best pickup? Former number one pick Alex Wimmers.
Wimmers has been plagued by injuries in his pro career,but I badly wanted his 2011 Donruss Elite in his Ohio State uniform.
That card had been all over the place between me and my traders trying to get this finished.
Jason finally got Wimmers to sign and got a "GO BUCKS" inscribed as well...
Bruce Begole made a trip to Lansing Michigan and saw the home team tackle the Lake County Captains and South Bend Silver Hawks.
Bruce got several cards for including two top 100's in Clint Frazier and Dorssys Paulino.
Bruce also added Mitch Brown on his 2013 Midwest League prospect and Mike Papi on his NY/Penn league card from Lake County among others and Lansing's D.J. Davis on his Midwest League and former number one pick Dickie Joe Thon on a few cards as well....
The final team into Hagerstown for the regular season was Lakewood and I had two whole cards-both for pitcher Matt Imhof on a USA and Williamsport.
Got them and finished.
This series was most noted for the Blue Claws spending an entire game checking my daughter out (the wonders of being a father).This was on youtube,but I am having trouble finding it,
Just don't want to seem to be a bragging dad,Ha Ha
The Greensboro Grasshoppers were the visiting team for the SAL Northern playoffs and since they had just been in a few weeks before,I had few cards.
I got Felix Munoz on his SAL all-star card along with Sean Donatello and Sean Townsley on their Hopper cards and that was all...
The Asheville Tourists hit the Hub City for the SAL title and I did their team set.
All of their best prospects signed-David Dahl on his SAL top prospect,all-star and team card,Ryan McMahon on the same three,Correlle Prime on team set and all-star,Raimel Tapia and now Braves prospect Jose Briceno on team set cards rounded out the best.
Other than Rockies first rounder Kyle Freeland that is,who I had to settle for a blank card.
I don't really like those,but sometimes that's what you have to work with.
That finishes the in person part of the signing season,but we aren't finished/
We still have some more cards via the trading block,so with luck we'll finish them up soon!!!
One card through the mail as former Raiders tight end Derrick Ramsey signed his 82 Topps....
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