Postseason Bound?

There is only about two weeks left in the MLB regular season.  It seems so long ago that the Pirates starting rotation of Chris Archer, Jameson Taillon, Jordan Lyles, Joe Musgrove, and Trevor Williams were leading the best rotation in baseball for the first two weeks of the season with nearly every pitcher throwing up zeroes in their first starts of the season.

It also seems like forever since Andrew McCutchen hit a Home Run in his first at bat as a Phillie against the Braves.  The Phillies then went down to Washington and Phillies fans began chanting "We Got Harper" as the Phillies won another series against the Twins following the Nationals series.  The Phillies were in first place when Cutch went down.

Both Pennsylvania teams looked like early postseason favorites in the first three weeks of the season.

But after 162 games, things tend to even out and fix themselves.  The Dodgers and Braves have come away with postseason berths and over the next few weeks (possibly days) more teams will clinch the Post Season.

Above are a pair of 2015 Topps Museum Patch cards I have of Cutch.  The patches were worn on their 2014 Wild Card Game jerseys.  That was the year that Madison Bumgarner went to another level of shitting opponents down and it started in the complete game shutout of the 2014 Wild Card Game.

Who do you think will win the two wild card spots for each league?  I am leaning towards the Nationals hosting the Cubs and the Rays hosting the Indians.

This prediction means the Mets, Phillies, Brewers all miss the playoffs as do the Oakland A's.

Another 1/1 Triple Threads

It's been a few days since I last posted.

The reason is simple. I was enjoying Football Sunday. The Steelers somehow managed to win without scoring a touchdown, but giving up 2.  Chris Boswell set a post season record for kicking 6 field goals.

Last night I got caught up watching a handful of tv shows and then rewatched two amazing specials on the MLB Network. If you haven't watched Forever Brothers, the story of the 1971 Pirates the first team to field all minorities or School of Rickey, the Rickey Henderson documentary I strongly suggest you watch them next time they air.

One of my first posts here on Collecting Cutch was my favorite card of 2016. It featured Jolly Roger sleeve patches of  Cole and Kang along with a nice patch for Cutch.

Triple Threads is notorious for producing some really nice cards and some $6 triple relics. I try to avoid the latter.

In doing so, I went for the former.

Boom!
Jolly Roger sleeve patch of Gerrit Cole.
Letter patch of Cutch
Post Season patch of Josh Harrison

This red 1/1 cost as much as the emerald /3 which I unfortunately lost.

I will continue to seek out the other parallels now that I own the 1/1.