jaybarkerfan's junk sends the blues

it's hard not to be excited when a package from wes at jaybarkerfan's junk shows up at your doorstep.  now, i have not been drawn into one of his trade wars (thankfully, as i know i would not be able to keep up), but we've traded several packages over the last couple of years.  this latest return from wes was certainly no disappointment.

first up is perhaps the bluest card i've seen - it's a 2002 donruss cesar izturis rookie crusade card

good golly miss molly, that's a blue card.

onelki garcia's 2014 topps chrome blue refractor parallel

pales in comparison.

but then there is this 2014 bowman platinum chrome prospects zach lee sapphire parallel card

that is pretty blue.

the blues end there, sort of, as we still have dodger cards, but they aren't of the same hue.  this is an emerald parallel of chris anderson's 2014 bowman platinum chrome prospects card

that brings the green rather than the blue.

there were some regular cards in the package as well, including a 1988 fleer mini kirk gibson card

and a 2005 topps roger craig dem bums insert

craig is fortuitously flashing his bum on the card, by the way.

wes also hit my list of most wanted cards, sending two of the remaining jackie robinson story inserts from 2015 topps that i needed my way

two pretty important milestones there.

i'll finish up with some more hued parallels - these are of the dodger first baseman of the moment, adrian gonzalez.  first is his 2013 bowman chrome purple parallel

and next is his 2013 topps triple threads emerald parallel

both are pretty colorful, bun not as colorful as this 2014 donruss gonzalez elite dominator card

which was not part of the package wes sent, but fits in nicely with this post.

thanks wes, for another great trade!

new platinum dream

i took a shot at some 2014 bowman platinum when running through the local target last week.  i picked up one of those value packs - 3 packs plus the 3-card purple refractor pack.  i did ok for a dodger fan.

yasiel puig gold parallel

corey seager prospects base

seager is only 20 but hit .345 in a half season at double-a.  i wonder who the stop-gap shortstop will be for the next year or two - arruebarrena? alex guerrero? dee gordon?  can one of them play third?

byron buxton die-cut cutting edge stars insert

i would be more excited about this card if i were a twins fan.  lots of optimism here in the twin cities these days after the debuts of danny santana and kennys vargas.

anthony rizzo

cubs prospect is an all-star but is also already old news.

here are the purple refractors, plus a random base giant

andrew susac is up with the big club backing up buster posey, luis sardinas is also up with the suddenly very bad rangers, but lucas sims is still in high-a ball.  too bad that card came to me too late to send it to wes as part of the world cup of trading.

i beat the odds with my pack by pulling an autograph.  this is jake sweaney, phillies prospect.

dude's from bakersfield (former home to a dodger farm team) and is only 19 years old.  i picked up a chrome blaster, too - those cards will pop up here later today.