Forty-three posts in 2024?
Unacceptable.
That was the lowest annual total since this blog began. Things are going to change in 2025, and that change starts today.
This is the final pack that just showed up, and it's from the set with the earliest release date of all the packs. Fleer released its 2007 Ultra set that July. That's over 17 years ago, a few months after I started my card blog. It's a small pack, only five cards, so let's try this. I'll do a little digging and try my best to find out what each player is currently up to. Should be interesting.
#226 Travis Buck
Assistant coach of the Loyola Marymount baseball team. Look him up, he still has the mile-wide smile, but I'm a bit disappointed by the Key West barfly-looking haircut.
#152 Adam Wainwright
Came back for a 19th season in 2024, finishing the year with a 6-32 record, but won all five decisions against the Milwaukee Brewers. In those games he held the Crew to a .072 batting average without giving up a single run.
Just kidding, he's a Fox Sports commentator now.
#184 Ian Kinsler
Special Assistant to Rangers GM Chris Young.
#91 Francisco Rodriguez
Not a lot of information available, but it appears that he was named manager of Venezuela's U-15 National Baseball Team early in 2024.
#43 Bronson Arroyo
Wikipedia says that Arroyo was on season 12 of "The Masked Singer" in 2024, and that fellow pitcher Barry Zito was his "Mask Ambassador." I don't know exactly what this means, but I assume it's what you do after baseball if you don't want to sell cars or insurance and you're not as smart as Chris Young.
So, who ya got for the best post-baseball gig from this group of five?
