Excitement over baseball cards in a MLB clubhouse

[z28jd]

Jase Bowen, who is a prospect for the Pirates, is a big collector of his own cards. He shares them on Twitter after each new card. He's been looking for rare versions of his own card from the 2023 Bowman Chrome set. It's been fun to follow

The downside to publicly collecting your own cards is that it seems like people on Ebay know that he's doing it and his cards are priced high. He got a nice little bonus for signing out of high school in 2019 (just under $400K), but he's been making minor league wages since then. They did bump up minor league salaries over the last two years, so they aren't as bad as they used to be, plus he made some extra playing winter/fall ball the last two years, but he's not some millionaire athlete. He can't be throwing thousands at cards he's chasing.

[BioCRN]

"“Are they gambling?” Nuñez wondered aloud."

Technically no, but very much yes...but technically no...technically...

Putting together a set from just breaking packs has been a hell of a financial adventure for quite a while. Some people straight up toss all base rather than bothering with it. "Hits" only.

I'm glad Topps is still producing something "for the kids and casuals" with a price point to match in Topps Big League. Hopefully it will stick around.

[Andrew1975]

Very cool... would have been so much fun to watch that!

[Mike D.]

Fun story! What do we think they were opening?