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I'd get rid of Tier 4 and push Eddie Collins down / LaJoie up.
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I agree with this and I would merge Tiers 5&6 and just make them all a single Tier 4 and add Bender & Baker (i.e., HOFers that matter). After these guys, you have the Jennings, Wallace, Beckley, J Collins, etc who are HOFers but are (in my opinion) glorified commons.
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Personally, I would group Mathewson with Johnson and Young.
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I agree that there's no way Eddie Collins belongs in a tier with Lajoie. He's treated as a mid-tier HOFer by the market, despite his great stats. Below are the current SMR prices for a PSA 5 of each T206 card of these players, grouped by the OP's suggested tiers. Clearly Cobb is in a class of his own, followed by Young and WaJo. Matty could arguably go in that second tier as well, and Speaker is not far behind. After that comes Lajoie, then Tinker-Evers-Chance, then (arguably) one tier containing the rest of these players, including Collins. Some other players would also belong in that tier, like Home Run Baker ($450 for a PSA 5, higher than Collins). Of course, SMR prices don't necessarily correspond directly to the market (you could probably double most of them), but they seem to be a reasonably accurate measure of relative value.
Cobb green: 15,000 Cobb red: 5,750 Cobb bat on: 5,750 Cobb bat off: 5,500 Young portrait: 3,500 Young bare hand: 1,950 Young glove: 1,750 WaJo portrait: 3,000 WaJo hands at chest: 1,650 Matty portrait: 3,000 Matty white cap: 1,750 Matty dark cap: 1,350 Speaker: 1,350 Lajoie portrait: 750 Lajoie bat: 625 Lajoie throwing: 550 E. Collins: 425 M. Brown Cubs: 485 M. Brown portrait: 475 M. Brown Chicago: 425 Walsh: 525 Joss portrait: 500 Joss hands at chest: 425 Keeler portrait: 650 Keeler bat: 550 Wheat: 500 Chesbro: 450 Crawford throwing 400 Crawford bat: 375 Bender portrait: 450 Bender trees: 400 Bender no trees: 375 Tinker portrait: 700 Tinker knees: 600 Tinker bat off: 495 Tinker bat on: 495 Evers portrait: 575 Evers Cubs: 515 Evers Chicago: 490 Chance yellow: 575 Chance red: 550 Chance batting: 450 |
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Some good insight and research. Maybe my inclusion of Collins is wishful thinking. I don't understand why he's not more sought after, given his performance and the lone, beautiful red portrait in the T206 set.
I did forget Baker, who seems to garner more attention than players with similar output. Admittedly, his mid-grade examples don't seem to come up as often and they always have big price tags.
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LaJoie clearly in front of Speaker at least his portrait is. 750 for psa not even close you can't even get a 4 for 1k these days. Granted the other cards trade for far more than those SMR prices cited but I'd much prefer a LaJoie portrait over the Speaker in PSA 5. Similarly I think that Mathewson portrait rivals the Young Portrait but not the Johnson. I'd say Tier 1 Cobb, Tier 2 Johnson, Tier 3 Mathewson, Young, Tier 4 LaJoie, Speaker.
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Tier 1 Cobb
Tier 2 Johnson, Cy Young Tier 3 Mathewson, LaJoie Tier 4 Speaker, Collins. (Evers, Tinkers, Brown, Joss Portraits) Tier 5 Joss, Baker, TEC ect Tier 6 the rest of the HOFers |
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I'm not necessarily a huge Collins fan. I can appreciate his success, especially his base-stealing skills well into his 30s. I wasn't arguing that he should be considered along with the top dogs. But, his numbers aren't much different from Lajoie. He just happens to have a single T206 instead of three. My comment was only exploring why he's held in significantly lower regard compared to Lajoie. It's hard to think of two more comparable players.
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My quick take on it...
Tier 1 - Ty Cobb Tier 2 - Johnson, Matty, Young, Wagner (the player) Tier 3 - Lajoie, Speaker, Plank (the player) Tier 4 - E. Collins, M. Brown, Walsh, Joss, Keeler, Waddell Tier 5 - Crawford, Wheat, Chesbro Tier 6 - Everyone else (which could be further tiered) Last edited by MVSNYC; 12-09-2018 at 12:35 PM. |
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Definitely Waddell would be in a tier higher than common HOFer.
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That is a good guess. I think slightly higher except for autographed ones.
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This is how I would rank...or at least how I collect.
1. Cobb 2. a. Johnson b. Mathewson c. Young 3. a. Speaker b. Lajoie 4. a. Brown b. Keeler c. Collins d. Waddell 5. a. Walsh b. Crawford c. Joss 6. Tinker to Evers to Chance 7. Everyone else Last edited by PiratesWS1979; 12-09-2018 at 07:13 AM. |
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This.
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