First off, let me make an addendum to my post about the upcoming O-Pee-Chee set...I gave credit to the Beckett Blog for having a "scoop" and when I wrote that particular line I thought I might get some grief for attracting attention to a Beckett Blog post...when I saw the original article that I sited I didn't really dig any deeper and I probably should have. Turns out Hand Collated and Wax Heaven were on the case earlier and without the Beckett corporate stank.
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I also didn't really make clear that the '71 cards would be one per pack rather than the focus of the set's design...
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On to the next issue...Rating Rated Rookies. I've gotten a surprising amount of feedback about my assertion that Derek Bell did not deserve his Rated Rookie status. In retrospect, I guess I should have started this series with a better example of a player who was a Rated Rookie who's career went nowhere. It would have set a better baseline and we could have worked up from there. I'm going to stand by my ranking for now and but I will say that Bell's stats are pretty close to what I think will be the crossover point of deserving/undeserving of the Rated Rookie title.
And lastly, I've received a bunch of trade requests lately and I hope to get back to everyone by tomorrow.
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