More ATG players soon?

So here's this off-hand comment from Garcia's blog post today ...

The ATG additions are also being worked on but are still a few weeks out with the 2016 set the priority now. I'll have a better update on the ATG players next week.

Say what ???

I guess they can't do two things at once, they are a very small company, it is too bad.

Rosie ran some polls in December-January to fill out our next add. He used smaller polls, and for some reason, the community didn't participate much. Below is what he posted on the ATG Card Discussions thread, along with the cards that will be added.

Here's our list that I will submit to SOM. Anticipated to be added in late Feb/early March.

Player / Yr / Team / Pos / Current ATG Cards / Yrs Career
Mike Piazza, 2000, NYM C 2 16
Evan Longoria, 2009, TB 3B 0 9
Luis Castillo, 2003, FLA 2B 0 15
Madison Bumgarner, 2013, GIA SP 0 8
Jake Peavy, 2007, SD SP 0 15
Dontrelle Willis, 2005, FLA SP 0 9
Elmer Flick, 1900, PHI OF 2 13
Hank Sauer, 1952, CHC LF 1 20
George H Burns, 1926, CLV 1B 3 16
Harvey Kuenn, 1959, DET RF 2 15
Bibb Falk, 1926, CHW LF/RF 0 12
Ted Abernathy, 1967, CIN RP 1 18
Noodles Hahn, 1902, CIN SP 1 8
Dick Ellsworth, 1963, CHC SP 1 13
Turk Farrell, 1963, HOU SP 1 14
Russ Ford, 1910, NYY SP 2 7
Ed Roebuck, 1957, DOD RH RP 1 11
Steve Hamilton, 1963, WAS LH RP 0 12
Horace Clarke, 1966, NYY SS/2B/3B 1 10
Wayne Causey, 1964, A's SS/2B/3B 0 11
Camilo Pascual, 1959, WAS SP 2 18
Pumpsie Green, 1960, BOS 2B/SS 0 5
Mel Ott, 1938, GIA 3B OF 3 22
Ray Boone, 1956, DET 3B 1 13
Ferdie Schupp, 1916, GIA SP RP 0 10

[quote="andycummings65"]Rosie ran some polls in December-January to fill out our next add. He used smaller polls, and for some reason, the community didn't participate much. Below is what he posted on the ATG Card Discussions thread, along with the cards that will be added.

I think a big reason for the reduced participation may have been that the polls were never 'announced' in the Stratomatic news section on the front office page like the previous one was...

Bill

The Texas Rangers are severely NOT represented as a set, I do NOT understand the absence of 1989 Jeff Russell card. It would likely be a $4.5ish M RP and a good addition IMO.

The Texas Rangers are severely NOT represented as a set, I do NOT understand the absence of 1989 Jeff Russell card. It would likely be a $4.5ish M RP and a good addition IMO.

I've pushed for a better Michael Young, but the problem with him is, his better offensive seasons he either has a poor defensive rating, or did not play SS. I think a Young addition should be at SS; I don't see him as a great value at 3b.

I think a big reason for the reduced participation may have been that the polls were never 'announced' in the Stratomatic news section

I completely missed that there were polls.

nomadbrad wrote:

The Texas Rangers are severely NOT represented as a set, I do NOT understand the absence of 1989 Jeff Russell card. It would likely be a $4.5ish M RP and a good addition IMO.

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Amen brother!!! And on that same note (Texas Rangers) how about a Mark Teixeira card for 2005! .301/43/144 Tex is still not represented in ATG!!!

I've asked them to add the World Series teams as a matter of course. It would automatically give us something for every cap and tease us to the latest 20xx set. Should be easy to do. But I never got a reply. I also suggested a quarterly raffle where one atg player gets to pick 5 cards addressing what they think as a need. Some would give us 5 Rangers, others 5 Expos, whatever. No reply either. Maybe if others joined in emailing them.

I think a big reason for the reduced participation may have been that the polls were never 'announced' in the Stratomatic news section

I completely missed that there were polls.

They were announced in the ATG thread. And I don't quite understand how you could miss that there were polls. There is a complete thread just for ATG Card discussion. On my computer, when there are comments that I haven't read since the last time, the icon next to the thread name is red. Of course, there are threads that I don't read (mystery games, for example), but for card additions I always make sure that I read them.