After I posted Alex Bregman’s 2019 card for last week’s Monster Card Monday, I got a few comments that it wasn’t worthy. People “expect better than that”. Even my buddy Dan Bunch chimed in, “Rendon’s card is better”.
Well, guess who’s up this Monday. You can see via the background that this 2019 Anthony Rendon card comes to us courtesy of APBA GO (it’s not too late to sign in and play with the two 2019 World Series teams for free!).
Batting .319 with 34 homers for the Washington Nationals, All-Star Anthony Rendon led the NL with 44 doubles and 126 rbis.
| Split | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Totals | 146 | 646 | 545 | 117 | 174 | 44 | 3 | 34 | 126 | 5 | 80 | 86 | .319 | .412 | .598 |
Maybe Dan’s right. Rendon’s card sure is nice. He’s a 3B-5 for starters.
Some might wonder why a .319 doesn’t have a 55-7. He has the same issue that Bregman does. The amount of 14s (plus the 42) means that that the .319 doesn’t work out to as many hit numbers on his card. Still by my count, Rendon comes up a bit short. I have him at around .290, perhaps a few points higher.
Regardless, Rendon has the coveted five power numbers with 1-0-0-0-0. His second column is not too shabby with a 15-1.
As for Bregman, he is a Fielding One third baseman (and shortstop) with double ones and four power numbers. I’ll take him off Don Smith’s hands. :)
Could you please write an article about what it takes to get a “7” on “55” these days (unless you’ve already done so, in which case, please point me to it.). It seems much harder to get a 7 on 55 than it was in the past. And it seems to me that high average/high OBP players loses that 7 in favor of a walk or HBP, but I feel it makes the card underperform.
I agree about the walks and the “7”…same thing happens to Trout every year. Maybe its time for second column 14’s……what??,,,did I just say that??? lol