EXP era Addition Ideas Part 2 (2000-present)

*-no card in ATG set

2000 Steve Finley*
2000 Jeff Kent
2000 Moises Alou
2001 Chipper Jones
2001 Kerry Wood
2002 Garret Anderson*
2002 Derek Lowe*
2002 Mike Sweeney*
2002 Mark Mulder*
2002 Bobby Abreu
2002 Pat Burrell*
2002 Torii Hunter*
2002 Jose Vidro*
2003 Howie Kendrick*
2003 Rafael Furcal*
2003 Carlos Beltran
2003 Mike Timlin*
2003 Marcus Giles*
2003 Trot Nixon*
2003 Tim Hudson*
2003 Luis Castillo*
2003 Derrek Lee*
2003 Vernon Wells*
2003 Jason Schmidt*
2004 Jason Varitek*
2004 Edgar Renteria
2004 Carlos Zambrano*
2004 Adam Dunn*
2004 Lance Berkman – OF/1b eligible
2004 J.D. Drew*
2005 AJ Pierzynski*
2005 Chris Carpenter*
2005 Michael Young
2005 Dontrelle Willis*
2005 Richie Sexson*
2006 Raul Ibanez*
2006 Brandon Webb*
2006 Justin Morneau*
2006 Roy Oswalt
2006 David Ortiz
2007 Matt Holliday*
2007 John Lackey*
2007 Josh Beckett*
2007 BJ Upton*
2007 Jake Peavy*
2008 Cole Hamels*
2008 Chase Utley
2008 Ian Kinsler*
2008 James Shields*
2009 Ubaldo Jiminez*
2010 Jon Lester*
2010 Josh Hamilton*
2010 Carl Crawford*
2010 Evan Longoria*
2010 Adam Wainwright*
2010 Joey Votto*
2010 Ryan Zimmerman*
2010 Josh Johnson*
2010 Austin Jackson*
2011 Cliff Lee
2012 David Price*
2013 Mike Trout*
2013 Max Scherzer*
2013 Miguel Cabrera*
2015 Bryce Harper*

A cool stat thing I've always gotten a kick out of is 40-40. The expansion ERA has a monopoly on this I believe, yet doesn't go nutso in strat. It's the guys who've gotten close that i'd like to add most notably the '02 Soriano - perhaps the ultimate saber/strato conondrum if priced correctly. Carlos Beltran's '04 season is awfully tantalizing but may not have the %s chops to keep its head above water + we may want it in the Royals franchise though, <------he did play part of 04 in KC though....

Alfonso Soriano 2002
Carlos Beltran 2003/2004
Chris Sale 2014 (5 man staff needs love)
Brad Lidge 2004 why not?

now just thinking out loud here, for GREAT/historic/big cultural/playing in meaningful games, I think Soriano, Lidge and Beltran are all worthy picks. Beltran has a card but it sucks....

Shouldn't that be a big thing for guys without cards to add? Greatest take priority and for what I outlined i'd say:

Beltran
Soriano
Konerko
Sale

are about the best players not in the deck?


Other guys I'd like to see:

Miguel Tejada 2002 - the historic MVP moneyball year plus is a 1 on D. More interesting mix than the '04 card.

JD Drew 2003 - Injury bug year --perhaps where I differ from alot of guys. NOT HIS BEST YEAR, but hopefully a representative one. Not a necessary guy, but his best year, '04 is the highest WAR for a player NOT in the deck. Retired now, .870 career OPS!!!!

Bobby Abreu 2004? - '99 card is a real bummer and should maybe be a lesson that '99 doesn't pan out all that well and heck should maybe be avoided, with the EDIT*** big numbers everywhere.


Oh I'd like a 1-3.5 mil dollar Omar Vizquel.....It's too inronic to me that the classic Bowa/Concepcion/Wallace/Amaro/Apparacio of a newer era ONLY has overpriced cards (one from '99....) that are a huge burden and are frankly in the realm of I-Rod and Ichiro.....