Interesting news broke Friday night when the Yankees and Mariners swapped a couple of youngsters including headliners Michael Pineda and Jesus Montero.
There was a lot of card action on both sides. TONS of people swooped in on Pineda rookies and rookie-year autos while the groans of many invested in Montero could be heard across the nation.
Me? I was a seller and a buyer.
I sold my sole Michael Pineda auto, a 2011 Bowman Prospect auto card featuring a signed sticker for $60.
It’s a card that had been depreciating in value ever since I pulled it from a pack earlier this year. The card had two things against it:
1) It’s a sticker auto.
2) Pineda has signed a crap load of cards ever since the Bowman release, many of which are nicer and feature on-card autos.
So, what did I do with the $60?
I bought the Pineda card I really wanted: 2011 Topps Chrome autograph (on-card)
and added these vintage to my collection:
1955 Topps Harry Agganis rookie card
1959 Topps Roberto Clemente
and … a Hall of Fame auto:
2001 Donruss Classics Signifficant Signatures Steve Carlton
That, my friends, deserves one of these…
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