Contested Shots 10: Prize Set from Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Baseball Bits

There were a series of Allen & Ginter-related contests over at Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Baseball Bits to celebrate the arrival of the new set, and I won one of them. For my prize I chose a complete base set of 2015 Allen & Ginter. Along with the base set, Matt included a short-printed mini of R.A. Dickey from last year's set. Who knows if I already have this card? I sure don't know as I am way behind on cataloging my collection, so as far as I can tell it's new to me!

Since I had all of the cards in the set sitting in a box right in front of me, I was able to flip through is and see what all there was to see. LaTroy Hawkins looks like he wants to start a relationship with that baseball in his hand. I've talked plenty about Jon Singleton on this blog, as he is the main guy whose cards I've been chasing lately. Max Scherzer's close-ups are always striking because of his different-colored eyes. And Billy 'Country Breakfast' Butler is another favorite slugger of mine, although he hasn't been doing a lot of slugging since his All-Star 2012 season. It'll be interesting to see what the A's do with him after 2015.

Mr. T aka B.A. Baracus aka Clubber Lang makes an appearance in the set since the Rocky films are featured as a big component in the product this year. I have to admit that I may have seen part or all of the first Rocky movie, but I know I haven't seen any of the others. Maybe I am missing out? I don't know. A couple of other PC guys make it into this group, R.A. Dickey and Josh Reddick, who gace up his jersey number to Billy Butler after the move that brought Butler to Oakland. Both players are featured pretty heavily in this editorial piece on why it's good that the A's will not make the playoffs this season WARNING: THE HEADLINE PHOTO IS A PICTURE OF BILLY BUTLER THAT BRINGS THE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE TO MIND. And last in the group is Jose Altuve, who is one of the key guys on a team that is trending strongly in the right direction, if they could just give their pitchers some run support every once in a while. They lost one to the Yankees tonight after sweeping the Dodgers over the weekend, a set that included a no-hitter thrown by trade deadline acquisition Mike Fiers.

I liked Derek Norris a lot as an A, but when he went to the Padres he did what players who go to the Padres do: he disappeared. That's not really true. He's put together some pretty good numbers again this year. Hulk Hogan as Thunderlips had to make this post, although he has been weathering some self-inflicted negative press lately. He said some racist things on a video that was leaked, and I hope that he has changed his mind since the video was made or maybe that the camera just caught him during a really low point in his life. The Hulkster was a figure that loomed large over the world I grew up in that Hulkamania is woven into who I am. Hyun-Jin Ryu gets into the post because I like him. It seems like every card he's on features this same pose. I wonder if the photographers set it up, or if it's his default pose for getting his picture taken? Like maybe the photographers are like, 'Hey, maybe we should mix it up a little this time,' but he just stubbornly stands in that pose until they give up and take the picture. Some people do look the same in every picture. There's even 'documented' 'proof' of it on the internet.

George Springer is injured, but the Astros are hoping that he comes back and helps them boost their offense a bit for the race to the playoffs.

Jose Bautista is a key component on the Blue Jays offense, which is a machine built solely for destroying baseballs by knocking them into low orbit. I think they've scored like 850 runs in their last ten games, with back-to-back-to-back-to-back grand slams which are technically impossible but the balls travel so far and stay in the air for so long that four batters can come up to the plate and run around the bases before they land. Can you imagine this roster playing full-time in Colorado? Hunter Pence gets included for making a Ryan Braun face. He doesn't just see the baseball, he sees the baseball's soul and finds it wanting. Ichiro just looks weird in a Miami uniform. He belongs in a Mariners or (I can't believe I'm typing this) Yankees uniform. Evan Gattis is my current favorite Astro, even though he played for the Braves at one point.

Dallas Keuchel is the Astros' ace pitcher, although I think Scott Kazmir and company would argue that point. It's a good problem for the team to have. Val Kilmer was pretty huge in the 80's and 90's, and his portrayal of Doc Holliday in Tombstone is one of my favorite performances of all time, but it seems like it's been a long time since he was super relevant. Topps did a good job including Malala Yousafzai in the set, as she has done a lot to promote education opportunities for youth and women in the world after gunmen attempted to end her life. There are many political figures who stand for controversial causes and might not be good choices for a card set, but it is hard to advocate convincingly against the right to pursue an education. Closing out this post is Josh Donaldson, who is another key component in that powerful Blue Jays offense.

Thank you for the cool price, Matt! I was super excited to get the full Allen & Ginter set, even if you did send me one of those dang Card Savers! 

Workin' at the Card Shop 7: Two Autographs from One Pack

I had some time to kill between work and an appointment I had, so I made a visit to the local card shop to have a look around. I planned on picking up a little bit of 2015 Topps Series 2 and hopefully a couple packs of 2015 Topps Archives. He had Archives in stock, but none of the boxes were open yet. I felt bad about asking him to open a box so I could buy two packs from it, so I wound up with a Jumbo Pack of Series 2 and a couple packs of 2014-15 Panini Donruss Basketball instead. The Jumbo pack of Topps contained 50 cards. I won't show all of them, but I'll show some of the ones that caught my eye:

The first thing I noticed was the weird coloring on Billy Butler's uniform. "Self," I said, "That is probably an airbrush job on his Royals uniform. I took it a step further and went and found the image that was altered to create this baseball card:

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The other guys I chose for the scan were either Astros or showing off some Ugly Pitching Face (UPF). And that's it, really. I have a hard time with some of the little colored circles containing the player's position abbreviation. The light blue ones and the bright yellow ones are a bit distracting.

These were the best horizontal cards in the pack. I was glad to get an Astros team card. I included Wei-Yin Chen because he got hosed by the Orioles recently and I read an article about it, so his name was stuck in my head when I sifted through these cards.

To give the non-pitchers a fair shake, I have included Kolten Wong and his Ugly Fielding Face (UFF) in this scan. Max Scherzer gets in for some UPF and because he's kind of a PC guy. Marwin Gonzalez gets in because he's an Astro and Adeiny Hechavarria makes the cut because I picked him up on a fantasy baseball team recently to play shortstop, because that position is a minefield in fantasy this year and whoever I drafted for that position was putting up terrible numbers.

I chose Moustakas because of the great fielding shot, another Astro card in Jed Lowrie, Carlos Gonzalez because he's on one of my fantasy baseball rosters, and I don't know why I included Jose Fernandez but then this popped up on my Facebook feed and gave me a reason:

I love it when a (failure to) plan comes together!

I pulled an autograph in the pack of a guy who was drafted in 2004, has played since then in the minor leagues, and pitched 6.0 total innings across 7 games in 2014 for the Giants as his only Major League service to date. The only real notable thing I saw on his Baseball Reference page was that he managed to hit three batters during those 6 innings. That Career High number in the corner of his card is celebrating his 11.6 minor league strikeouts per nine innings ratio in 2014. I got a Gold parallel of Danny Santana, another guy who is on at least one of my fantasy baseball rosters. My First Pitch insert features Jon Hamm, an actor whose work I don't really follow at all. I had to look him up. Madison Bumgarner rounds out the scan, with an appearance in a decent-looking insert set called Stepping Up

That Edgar Martinez card looks like it fell right out of 2012 Topps Baseball, and I don't think of that as a compliment. Wei-Yen Chen makes another appearance in this post, this time on a Black parallel numbered # 46 / 64 (a palindrome!). Mike Piazza shows up in some sort of bat-themed set about which Night Owl has remarked, "I think Topps did an excellent job of making bats look like loaves of bread in a deli." And finally, Willie Mays appears in a set that presumably discusses famous comebacks in baseball history.

But wait! That's not all! I also got one of those Call Your Shot! code cards in my pack. I went to the site, entered my code, and this screen loaded:

The autograph selection is random, meaning that if you 'win' a 'prize,' you click through to your cart, pay Topps $4.95 for shipping and handling, and probably eventually get an autograph in the mail. From what I've heard, the players on the screen are just a partial list. The Full player list available here link goes to a broken page labeled as the B-level list. I have seen copies of the A-level and C-level lists and they are each several pages long, covering a huge number of players. So it's pretty random. Going through some Blowout forum threads on people who have already received their cards from the Series 1 codes, it looks like Topps is just sending out whatever happens to be nearby. I have seen some 2013 Topps Five Star of Jason Heyward, some Bowman Sterling of Didi Gregorius and Oscar Taveras, a Jim Rice Five Star card, a Marcus Stroman from last year's base Topps set, and some other stuff along those lines. I guess whatever I get probably can't be any worse than an Erik Cordier sticker autograph.

The two packs of Donruss basketball didn't contain anything too amazing. Mostly they just reminded me how out of touch I am with the current NBA. I manage to keep track of the Houston Rockets and most of the major stars and fan favorites, but 95% of the other guys are unrecognizable to me.

Here are three guys that I recognized from the packs. Beverley is said to be a pretty good player, but during the few opportunities I had to watch him it seemed like maybe he was showboating a little too much and needed to take better care of the ball. I've never liked Pau Gasol very much. He seems too much like a soccer player or something. Maybe he's just an emotional and expressive dude, but I find him irritating. Klay Thompson and all of the Golden State Warriors are jerks, and they will remain as such until the Houston Rockets can manage to beat them in a playoff series.

Here are some of the inserts that came out of the packs. It seems like I can't buy any basketball cards without pulling a Zach Randolph card of some kind.

Oh, and here are two more inserts featuring players I don't like all that much. I guess I should have asked the shop owner to open a box of Archives for me to pick a couple packs from.

Mysterious Packages, Trade E-Mails, and 2014 Stadium Club Members Only x4

I have recently received a couple of mystery packages from names I don't recognize. I hope that I have not been making trade arrangements in my sleep and then deleting the e-mails related to them. If you have sent me a package in the last month or so and not gotten any kind of response from me, it is because I don't know who you are and I can't find anything in my e-mail history that matches the name on the return label.

Others have reached out to me via e-mail or blog comment about potential trades. The card collecting part of my life is rather disorganized right now, and I am having some difficulty agreeing to trades because I don't have a good idea of what I have to trade and/or where exactly any trade bait might be found among my card stacks. I've also been buying collated sets and specific singles rather than wax lately, so I haven't really been adding much to my trade bait pile. Now that all of the excuses are out of the way, I will show off a few cards.

I picked up a few more of these 2014 Stadium Club Members Only parallels over the last few months. A couple of them actually fit into my player collections. I would really like to track down a copy of R.A. Dickey's card from this set, but it has proven elusive. There are estimated to be less than 10 copies of each of the cards in this parallel set, so it could be a while before I find one.

First up is the speedy Pirates outfielder, Starling Marte. He's put up some pretty good numbers the last two seasons, and he should be on track to do more of the same this season. I don't know exactly why I like the Pirates more than some other teams, but it probably has to do with their uniform colors and these:

Those pillbox caps are cool. I must have come into contact with some earlier baseball cards during my early 90's childhood, because I remember seeing these caps on Pirates players and thinking they were so different from anything anyone else was wearing. And being different was pretty darn neat.

I grabbed this Torii Hunter card, mostly because there wasn't much bidding activity on it. The auctions for these with low starting prices have pretty well dried up and been replaced by fixed-price listings, but every once in a while one will pop up and I'll have a chance at it. I haven't been as dedicated to it as I once was, so I can think of 9 or 10 recently that I missed by $0.25 or $1.00. I try not to get too broken up about losing auctions. There are so many cards out there that I will never get all of the ones I want, so I have adopted a policy of getting what I can and letting the rest go. Sometimes it is difficult to choose what to chase and what to ignore, but I am getting there.

I am hoping that Billy Butler can get back on track this year with the A's. He had a pretty good run from 2009-2013, but his 2014 was kind of a down year. He seems like a pretty personable dude, but he's got a big contract to live up to. I was pretty happy to snag this card for my 'Country Breakfast' player collection.

Finally, I added a copy of Jose Bautista's card. 'Joey Bats' had his power bat turn on in big way for the 2010 and 2011 seasons. He's done his share of mashing since then, too, but the numbers haven't been quite as gaudy. He'll be one of the key components as the Blue Jays try to end their 21-year absence from the playoffs. I don't think bats are going to be their downfall, but their pitching doesn't look strong enough to me to be a legitimate contender.

And those are four of my most recent Members Only pickups from 2014 Topps Stadium Club.

Pack of the Day 94: Pulling Those Repack Hits

I picked up one of those 20 Packs + a Bonus Item repacks at Target the other day. It contained the usual assortment of stuff, including seven or eight packs from the last couple years of Topps Flagship and Opening Day, around five filler packs of Panini Triple Play, and then good stuff like Heritage, Bowman, Cooperstown, and Allen & Ginter. The bonus item in the box was an Albert Pujols collectible minifigure of some kind produced by Topps. My son asked me about it at dinner, and I told him, "This is a figure of Albert Pujols." He looked at me and said, "Daddy, no potty words at the table!"

There were a number of minis among the inserts in the packs. I like that die-cut Felix Hernandez the best. I really need to figure out what I'm still missing from that set and finish putting it together. I also got a couple of Royals, with a James Shields 1972 mini from another set I need to complete and a Kyle Zimmer mini Refractor from a set I will never complete.

Here are the backs of those cards because I scanned them. They are sideways because I didn't rotate the photo before I saved it. The quality of this post is rapidly deteriorating. My Google AdSense doesn't pay me enough to hire a Quality Control person.

I got this Dizzy Dean disc from the pack of Cooperstown that I got. It's pretty cool, even though it's one of those things that stinks to store. I'll probably toss it in a penny sleeve and put it with my other fifteen Cooperstown cards.

I like Billy Butler, even if he had a down year in 2014. I heard the other day that he hit a home run or something in Spring Training. But maybe I am thinking about the home run that Ryan Howard hit. I don't know. I'm glad the teams I like have just been exchanging players I like, so that even if they're in new uniforms I don't have to feel conflicted about the changes. Billy Butler to Oakland is one example. Josh Donaldson to Toronto is another.

This Butler card is from the Blue Foil parallel of Topps Opening Day. This is one of the sets I like collecting every year (since 2013), so I already had this card. I hear that the 2015 Opening Day parallel might just be foilboard without a nice blue color to it. If that rumor is true I will feel a little sad. I really like the blue cards. Yes, I just passed up the chance to make a pun about feeling blue.

Here is a Jeter insert from 2014 Topps. It's hard to believe that it's already 2015. Life is moving pretty fast. I also got a Cracked Ice or whatever they're calling these fractured Refractor-type cards on the Panini side of things. This one features Rogers Hornsby. Somewhere the Atlanta Braves are grinding their teeth about people creating sick Refractor hits of vintage dudes. Brian McCann would be worried about it too, but he is busy rolling around in the big pile of money the Yankees gave him.

Wow Astros, way to go. You passed on Jeter to get Phil Nevin, who you then traded to get 21 innings from Mike Henneman. That sick mojo hit of Rogers Hornsby is numbered # 195 / 499.

And finally, I got a mini of Ryne Sandberg out of the Allen & Ginter pack. But not just any mini. This is a flag-back mini, hand-numbered # 23 / 25. I threw out all the packs so I don't recall the exact odds on pulling one of these, but from Retail it was something in the realm of 1:You Just Used All Your Luck For The Year. I almost passed it over because the mini in the A & G packs is an annoying little card stuck between the other cards and it always wants to fall between your fingers and land on the floor. So you just kind of have to flip to where the mini is and set it aside before sorting through the pack, and it is easy to ignore it once it's set aside. But for some reason I checked the back and I was pretty excited to find the hand-numbering on there. It sells for like $6 on eBay, but I got a thrill from beating the astronomical odds on pulling one of these. From a repack box, no less, where the packs are each costing right around $1 apiece.

Pack of the Day 82: A Second Box of 2014 Topps Stadium Club

Shortly after I purchased my previous box of 2014 Stadium Club at what seemed like a pretty good price, Dave and Adam's made it one of their Daily Deals for $10 less per box. I was weak and ordered some more. These cards are beautiful, and they have a good feel to them when shuffling through a stack. I have most of a base set now, with just about 30 cards missing. There were some Black Friday deals on Stadium Club, but I couldn't justify spending more than I already had on Black Friday. There will be other discounts later. At $55 or less I like this stuff. At $65 and up it seems like less of a deal. I picked a few of my favorite base cards to show off first:

My player collections have seen a bit of a shake-up this offseason, but for the most part everyone's been shuffled to other teams I collect. I call myself an Astros fan and I do collect some specific Houston players, but most of the players I collect are Blue Jays, Athletics, and Royals. I guess that means I am lucky that Billy Butler went to the A's and Josh Donaldson went to the Blue Jays. Even though I like the guy, I don't know how good of a deal Butler is for Oakland. Maybe he'll find himself down there, or the roster shuffling they do will mask some of his weaknesses, It also seems a lot like Toronto won the Donaldson trade, but we won't know for sure until the season plays out. Alex Gordon tends to make some great faces on his cards. I wanted at least one older player for the scan, and Dawson was the best photo in the bunch. I showed off the Wilin Rosario Members Only card a little while ago, and I finally pulled the base card to go with it. I'm not a Boston Red Sox fan, but that celebration shot was too good to pass up, and I wanted to close things out with a couple of fielding shots.

Two of the three Rainbow Foil parallels from this box fit into my player collections. Max Scherzer is getting offers from the New York Yankees, and most folks seem to think he'll be in pinstripes before too long. I guess I'll still set his cards aside for my player collection. I got a Billy Butler parallel to go along with the base card. I'm not a Cubs fan, but that Castro card looks nice enough.

My Gold parallel for this box was CC Sabathia. This would have been a much better pull a couple of years ago.

I got three Field Access cards in this box. I got four in the last box because I got a parallel of the Joe Mauer card. Now I have the base insert to go with it. The Trout and Bench cards have decent photos on them, so no complaints there. I guess the Trout would fit into Dime Box Nick's Awards Show mini collection, while the Mauer would go well in the Kids on Cards mini collection.

My Beam Team for the box is Andrew McCutchen, which means I am having pretty good luck on the player collection front. I like the Beam Team The George Brett Legends insert is another double from the first box. I got one of the better Future Stars cards in Yasiel Puig. Stadium Club would be a fun set to collect all the inserts for, but I don't know if I have it in me to make that a collecting priority.

I pulled two Triumvirate cards, both featuring Dodgers pitchers. The Hyun-Jin Ryu card is another PC card, and is the base Luminous version that comes one per box. The Clayton Kershaw is the Illuminator version, which comes one per case and is made of transparent acetate. I tried interlocking them along the edge where they are supposed to match. They fit together along the bottom half, but up high the die-cuts fall out of alignment.

Here is how they look on the back. The base Triumvirate cards are blank on the back, with the player name and team down with the legal information at the bottom of the card. The acetate cards show the player's silhouette in white.

Closing things out is the three guaranteed autographs in the box. Charlie Blackmon is someone I've actually heard of, as he came seemingly out of nowhere to post an All-Star season. I was able to get in on some of his early big numbers in fantasy baseball. If I recall right, he tailed off at the end of the year, but those first couple of months he was on fire. I don't know much about Luis Sardinas. He played part of the season for the Rangers and may make the roster next year, depending on what happens with Elvis Andrus and Jurickson Profar. Andrew Heaney didn't have a great performance during his audition with the Marlins this year. I don't know anything else about him except that he is on the trade block. His autograph is the Rainbow Foil version and is numbered # 22 / 50. The Rainbow Foil autographs fall about 2 per case.

So I pulled a case hit in the Clayton Kershaw and a half-case hit in Andrew Heaney, as well as an autograph of a guy I've heard of and a few player collection cards from the base and inserts. Stadium Club isn't about the big money hits, so I'd say I did pretty well on this box. I would like to complete the base set eventually, and it would be fun to collect the full Triumvirate base insert set. I wouldn't want to chase down the Illuminator acetate set, but the Luminous base set wouldn't be too awful.

2013 SEGA Card-Gen Extravaganza 7: Kansas City Royals

It's time for another team's worth of cards from 2013 SEGA Card-Gen. This time I am featuring the Kansas City Royals. The Royals get 15 cards in the set, which is two above the overall average of 13 cards per team.

Salvador Perez has been pretty good the last couple of years. He was a top 20 catcher in fantasy baseball in 2012, and in the top five or six for 2013 and the first half of 2014. He offers a little bit of power and a good average. It looks like he's not too shabby on defense, either.

Eric Hosmer has been up and down in his career. He had a good rookie year in 2011, finishing third in the Rookie of the Year voting, and a good year in 2013, with good statistical totals all around and a Gold Glove award. But in 2012 and so far in 2014 he has struggled a bit. It seems like all of these Royals batters have a hard time staying consistent. You almost feel like they're the same guy, full of promise but unable to put it all together.

Mike Moustakas is another promising young bat who hasn't quite panned out. So far this season he is batting under .200 and isn't ownable in fantasy baseball. I guess the good thing about all these guys is that they are fairly young as a group and maybe will all hit their prime in a couple of years and live up to their promise.

Alcides Escobar is one of the Royals who has been pretty good this year, putting up top-10 numbers at the shortstop position, mostly by virtue of his stolen bases and near-.300 batting average. He had a little bit of a down year last year, but was still a top-20 guy at his position.

Alex Gordon has been extremely consistent over the last couple of years, ranking right around 25th among outfielders in 2012, 2013, and 2014. He's a guy I tend to target in fantasy drafts because he gives you numbers in every category and doesn't really hurt you anywhere. He's also got one of my favorite 2014 Topps flagship cards because of the funny face he's making in the photograph as he watches the ball in the air. He looks a bit more serious on this Card-Gen card.

Lorenzo Cain seems to be having a pretty good season this year, but has stayed pretty well outside my sphere of awareness. It looks like he has spent the last few years playing pretty well without standing out all that much.

Jeff Francoeur had a lot of buzz in his career, but again never was able to get it to stick for any length of time. After getting released from the Royals in 2013, he spent some time with the Giants, then got picked up by the Indians system, and is currently with the Padres minor league organization. There are some rumors out there today that he might opt out of that minor league deal in order to go up and be the Blue Jays' fourth outfielder. You've gotta love those high socks he's sporting, probably a remnant of his days in Atlanta, where they do baseball the 'right' way, enforcing all of the unwritten rules of the game.

And here we get to the meat of the lineup, specifically the ham, bacon, and sausage gravy you might find in a Country Breakfast. Billy Butler had a pretty awesome 2012, but his 2013 and 2014 seasons didn't quite live up to expectations. I can't help liking the guy, though. There is still time this year for him to turn things around, but he might want to do that pretty soon. Hopefully he's not hiding an injury or something, because his power numbers are not there at all, and big flies are his calling card.

These 15-card teams are hard to do write-ups on. Here we are just getting into the pitchers, and I feel like I've been working on this post forever already. I haven't even posted any good commentary so far, with nothing you couldn't find just by looking a guy up on Baseball-Reference.com and Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball. But I feel obligated to post something along with these pictures. Luke Hochevar was a pretty middling starter for a few years, but had an amazing year in 2013 as a reliever, putting up video game numbers with a 1.92 ERA and 10.5 strikeouts per 9 innings over 70.1 innings. Unfortunately he is out this season with an arm injury.

Who? It appears that Luis Mendoza is playing pro baseball in Japan now for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, after bouncing around the majors and minors here for a few years putting up mediocre numbers. His record there for 2014 is 3-8, so he may not be finding much success there, either.

James Shields would be the ace of this lineup, having been a consistently good pitcher for a while now. He came to the Royals from the Rays in a multi-player trade, with the main guy going the other way being Wil Myers. 2011 and 2012 were really good years for him. He's still pretty good, but his ratios and strikeout rate keep him from being a top fantasy guy.

This season Wade Davis has been a perfect fantasy baseball middle reliever this year. He's got great ratios and a K/9 rate of 14.23 over 36-2/3 innings. He was one of the other guys who came over in the same trade as James Shields. His stints as a reliever have gone much better than his attempts at starting, despite what the back of this card tells us.

Tim Collins is currently down in the minor leagues, having pitched just 17-1/3 innings for the big club this year. He's put up a 0.75 ERA in the minors, so maybe he will get a chance to come back up sometime this year.

Aaron Crow is a decent reliever. He made the All-Star team in 2011, and seems to do a good consistent job. His ratios are pretty good this year, but his strikeout ratio isn't all that hot. I don't have much else to say, so I'm going to go ahead and move on.

Greg Holland has been pretty good since 2011, but in 2013 and 2014 has been one of the top closers in the game, with a big strikeout rate, good ratios, and the ability to rack up the saves. The Royals have a pretty good bullpen, it would appear.

And that does it for the Royals in 2013 SEGA Card-Gen. This post sat in my Drafts folder for a while, but I finally got through it. Hopefully you got through it too. Only 23 more teams to go!

2013 SEGA Card-Gen Directory

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

Cleveland Indians

Chicago White Sox

Detroit Tigers

Houston Astros
Kansas City Royals
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Minnesota Twins
New York Yankees

Oakland Athletics
Seattle Mariners
Tampa Bay Rays

Texas Rangers
Toronto Blue Jays
Arizona Diamondbacks
Atlanta Braves