My Favorite Martin Redux

The Rangers have been red hot lately, and a contributing factor has been the stellar pitching of Leonys Martin Perez.  Perez  Martin has long been heralded as a top pitching hitting prospect, but seemed to regress last year and fell off a lot of people's radars.  Good thing the Rangers didn't give up on him, or trade him away because he's been a revelation this summer.

I decided I should get some cards of him for my Rangers album:

This Bowman Sterling card is numbered to 199 and is amazing in hand.  I got it for a buck on sportlots.com.  I'd like 8 more of these and make a whole page of them.

This is pretty much all I have of Martin, so if you have anything cool of his and are willing trade, let me know!

Finally, just to show that I do read the comments, let me humor The Lost Collector so that he isn't once again totally duped and disappointed by the title of this post:

Shining It Up With Brad's Blog

My Rangers Album just got a little brighter, thanks to a nice lot of shiny cards from Brad's Blog.   I had some old Phillies cards that I didn't need and he gladly took them off my hands and sent back these beauties:

These two numbered refractors were the cards I knew I was getting, and they are fantastic.   I definitely need to build a team set of the sepia cards.

However, that wasn't all that was in the padded mailer from Brad, much to my surprise.  He also sent a big stack of other cool Rangers:

I love these "ice" cards from Bowman, and am really stoked to get the card of Luis Sardinas.  He's a SS in the lower levels of the farm system and the Rangers are pretty high on him I hear. 

 Brad also sent a few great base chrome cards.  I don't have many cards of Leonys Martin, but he's quietly turning into a star, so I'm very excited to get this one.

I'm hearing lots of noise about Mike Olt being part of a trade package for Matt Garza of the Cubs.  I like Olt a lot, but I'd be all for that trade, considering the volume of the Rangers starting pitchers that are on the DL. 

There were several other cards in the package, but this by far was my favorite "bonus" card.  I love getting Darvish rookies!

Thanks for the great trade Brad, and I hope you enjoy the vintage Phillies!