A few weeks ago, reader Phil Grabar replied to a previous Monster card post with “Trout’s card isn’t too shabby either.” Indeed, Mike Trout’s 2022 APBA card is one of the best of this season. Playing in just 119 games for the Angels, Trout still managed to hit 40 homers…
For the last Monster Card of 2022, it is one that brings up some questions. Nonetheless, it is unquestionably a monster card just as he had last year. I’m talking about 2022 Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels. Shohei will be the bane of APBA opponents’ hitters AND pitchers…
Have a safe and stress-free holiday season full of 66s!
As Rod says, “everything you wanted to know about the ’22 season”. The Orlando APBA Association season, that is. Rod is the premiere documentarian for OAPBA and one look at his recap of the 22 season will tell you what you want to know. Of course, this was a bittersweet…
I wrote about 2022 AL MVP Aaron Judge last Monday so I guess I’ll pen an article about NL honoree Paul Goldschmidt this week. While I’m not so blown away by Goldy’s card as I was Judge’s, I wouldn’t bench him, either. Goldschmidt played a full 151 games for the…
(This time for real) After recalculating the Pitching Grade Challenge results after the slight mishap in communication (read about it here), we now have two winners of the Challenge! Join me in congratulating Bernard Servais and Craig Robinson! They both correctly predicted all twenty pitchers in the Challenge! It was…
Now that the 2022 Pitching Grade Challenge is wrapping up, I can start looking at the cards in APBA GO with more fervor. This is one of the first cards I checked out. Why? Well, it helped answer a question I have been wondering about. The question is one our…
This is what I’m calling the “Adam Wainwright Situation”. In the process of determining the winner of the Pitching Grade Challenge, I receive a list of the grades of the twenty pitchers involved. There was a difference in grade with one of the pitchers (Wainwright) in the list provided to…
Once again, I want to congratulate James Morgan who scored 20 out of 20 in the 2022 Pitching Grade Challenge. I heard on Facebook that James just earned his league’s title so perhaps his Challenge win is more than just coincidence. He does have some APBA smarts. Today, I thought…
Big news! The official 2022 season has been uploaded on APBA GO tonight! So, here is a sneak peek. I knew 2022 MVP Aaron Judge’s card was going to be one of the first I was going to check out. He didn’t disappoint. In 157 games, Judge hit a historic…