#MLBVideos: Best Of MLB’s Carded from the 2025 Season!

Best Of MLB’s Carded from the 2025 Season!

Hello and welcome everyone to MLB’s Carded. We’re coming to you from the 2025 winter meetings. I’m your host Greg Aminger. Now, everyone here is busy making plans for the start of the 2026 season and there’s a lot going on. I mean, people want to sign free agent contracts, trades, but I wanted to take this opportunity to look back at some of my favorite segments on the show carded from 2025. Now, watching baseball in a TV studio with an Academy Award-winning actor JK Simmons was an easy 2025 favorite segment for me. He’s a Detroit guy, loves his Tigers. He was kind enough to go through a stack of cards with me and share his thoughts on a few all-time great Tigers. Watch this. Born in Detroit in 55. Once in a while, my parents could even afford to take us to a game. So, I saw a handful of games at the old Tiger Stadium. Yeah, I’ve been a Tigers fan since Mr. Kaline was a rookie. Got a uh a stack, which I assume I get to take home. A stack of old Tigers cards beginning with Mr. Tiger, Mr. Kaline, Al Kaline, Rookie of the Year, Hall of Famer, 1980. Unbelievable right fielder leaping Al Kaline. One of the the big benefits of being semi famousamous is getting to meet so many of my heroes. I met this guy currently on the Tiger staff hall of famer Allan Traml half of the Traml Whitaker. Yeah, here he is. Got it. Yeah, you can’t have one without the other. Traml and Whitaker. Whitaker needs to be next to Traml in the hall. These guys were phenomenal. The bird. I mean, what an unbelievable story. Detroit baseball. Everybody in the world was paying attention to Tigers baseball when Fid Rich was pitching. What a magnificent, unique, fantastic guy. Sparky, I mean, World Series in both leagues. What can you say? Phenomenal guy, phenomenal manager. I love that when Gibson hit the home run in the 84 World Series and they they told Goss to walk him and Goss and they had this big conference on the mound. You could see Sparky in the mound yelling yelling on deck to Gibson, he don’t want to walk you. He don’t want to walk you. He don’t want to walk you. You know, like And we know what happened. And there it goes. You don’t want to walk in. Should have a Gibby card in here. Oh, there it is. Sorry, I skipped a couple cuz we we just started talking about Gibby. A fantastic guy. Got to meet him because he’s been broadcasting for the Tigers for the last several years. Fantastic ball player. about that football mentality to the baseball diamond. Loved watching Gibby, especially when he had hair flopping out. Jack Morris, man. I mean, 10 incomplete games, you know, what a stud. The numbers don’t tell the full story of Jack Morris. He was one of those competitors that he just opposing teams did not want to see him on the mound every day. Chad Lemon, like underrated center fielder. The guy was a baseball player, a fantastic part of that World Series winning team. Peaches, Dan Petri, also currently a broadcaster with Jason Benetti. He and uh he and Andy Dirks are the primary color guys for the Tigers. Delightful guy. I like the 84 guys because you know him and Gibby and all those guys are it’s my generation. They’re about my age. And this guy, wrong card, wrong hat, but right guy, Jim Leland. I basically patterned my character in For Love of the Game after Jim Leland. fantastic human being, fantastic baseball brain, and just a great leader of people and still a valuable Tigers resource and adviser. JV man, obviously a big-time stud, World Series in Detroit, MVP in Detroit, Sai Young in Detroit. Come back to Detroit one more year, one more curtain call. Megie, I mean, for at least four or five years during that Leland era, the best right-handed hitter in the game, the best hitter in the game, magnificent talent and such a baseball IQ and such a fantastic teammate. Everybody loved him in the in the dugout. He was the first guy that I remember just watching the game as a fan where the way you see players interact with each other now. and the way you see players interact with their own bench, you know, nobody get hits a single and gets to first without, you know, turning around and doing some goofy thing with the guys on the bench. Mickey was one of the first guys that I sort of noticed doing that both with his teammates and and with the opposing pitchers. One of those guys that would, you know, like like the pitcher would fool him on a slider and and and you would see Mickey go like look out of home plate and go, “Yeah, good. You got me. Here’s a competitor.” I mean, I’m just going to go ahead and say it. best pitcher in baseball last year and this year. Tick Scooble. A few years ago, he was kind of like, “Oh yeah, we got this guy Scooble, you know, he’s one of our guys that might have some potential. Never had big expectations.” Has worked his tail off and turned himself into the best pitcher in baseball. Baseball cards trigger memories. Obviously, baseball card collecting has become, you know, a big business now, but to me, it’s just about uh for love of the game. If I’m looking back at the best of 2025, I got to bring up the All-Star game in Atlanta. Uh Card actually sent out Roy Wood Jr. and Alex Gimo to go mingle with some of the game’s best and open packs of cards. This ended up being a huge hit. Watch. We just went through it. Allstar media appeals. That was crazy. Yeah, it was a good time. It’s a good time. So much fun. A lot of good players in there. I pulled a Kyle Tucker in front of Kyle Tucker. Pretty wild, right? Pretty wild. I’m glad you had fun. I did. Check it out, guys. Do you mind if we rip some cars together? Sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing, but That’s all right. You don’t need to. You got to walk me through it. Probably the greatest ray of all time in an Evan Longoria to get it going. I should have got that uh sinker in a little deeper. Got me for a couple couple runs on that one. Sure. Okay. Art number five. We got to trade each other regardless of who? That’s how I did it when my dad brought it. One, two, three, four, five. Oh man, I got Matt Shaw. You got Kyle Tucker. I love Maddie. There’s nothing against Maddie. I think you won that trade. Yeah, it’s funny. His uh his they were on the flight and everything yesterday and everything. His son had one of these cards, too. He brought up and like gave to me. So, it’s kind of funny that card everything they do a good job over there. A show card. There you go with Alvarez in the background at city. Were you a collector? I am. This is really cool. Andrew Jones. There we go. That’s not bad. I haven’t opened this product yet. Low. There you go. JB Wilson. He knows how to rip. Would you mind opening a pack with me? Let’s do a cut. Let’s see who gets the best card out of this pack. See what we got. See who we get. A card. JP Sears. A got a whole deg. Okay. Yeah. All right. I’ll take that. I’ll take that. I’ve given up a homer to that guy. Wait, who? Yordon. Okay. Giving up multiple homers to Kyle Schwarber. Well, a lot of people have them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you collect cards growing up? Okay. I refuse to call Cal Raleigh Big Dumper. Big Dumper. That’s I can’t do it. Who car? All right. I got a Juan Sto. We got a Gary Carter. Oh, that’s a tough one. Who wins in that one? I’ll give it the old school throw match. That’s a pretty good one. It’s a great one. Whoever pulls Bren Rucker wins. Okay, steal. I got an A, right? Who is it? Great to get. Not you, but still an A. Oh, you’re ripping, baby. No, me. What’s your grail? My 101 Bowman. The collectors. You hear that? He’s looking for his oneonone Bowman. So, hit me up and maybe we can hook you up. Yeah, we’ll figure something out. Grew up a Mariners fan, but we’re all speaking up. There we go. That was meant to be. The hero right here. These guys might all be allstars. They’re all Allstars. I’m so glad you noticed. This is an awesome set. Did you collect growing up? I did. Three hits in a game. My dad would take me to get a slurpee, a 7-Eleven, and a pack of baseball. Oh, wow. Talking cards with Major League Allstars is great, but what about the future stars? Baseball’s top prospects rip packs on the field in between batting practice rounds in Atlanta. Watch. Welcome to 2025 Allstar Futures Game. The best of minor league baseball has come from all around the country to face off with each other here today. Yeah, I pay attention. I don’t have any, but I pay attention. Let’s do it. Hoping some of these 2025 moments. Let’s see. Hey, what do you got? Let’s see through the camera. How about that? What do you got? Imagine you like ripping one. Hey, I got Max. Oh, my first strike out in professional baseball. Jamie L. Oh my gosh, I got one. You got a good one. Bryce Harper. Hey, Carson Ben here today. The man. Hey, you got a me. Oh, Kevin. I know for you. Oh my god. Romeo Santana. One more. That’s a good pack. Good pack. Nothing like Sodto Otani and Cam Smith back to back to back. That’s a pretty good start. All right, one pack down. That’s pretty good so far. One more. One more. One more. All right, let’s do it. This guy’s going absolutely insane. Jake Wilson, former USA teammate, also a dog. Yo, good, bro. You got a signature. Oh, there you go. Tugbo. Oh, you got tugboat. Let’s go. Let’s see. Let’s see. Right over here. The thing where they take the top one. Put it on the bottom. All right. What you got, Bobby? Let’s keep it. Fernando Jr. Oh. Hey, you got the good one. You got the good one. Yes, sir. Oh my numbered Thomas White stars here right now. I’m keeping that one. Pretty sweet. Pretty awesome to see me be with on that cover there. That is Charlie Condan straight on that cover. That is me. Pretty sure that’s photoshopped from college. I think it’s a cool feeling. Um, obviously, you know, like as a kid, you grow up trying to collect other people and then you’re finally in a position to where people are collecting you. I mean, it’s just one of those childhood dream come true moments. Unbelievable. It’s always amazing. No me, but that’s all right. That’s it. Thank you. Thank you. Let’s go. Thanks for the cards. Yes, sir. This next piece is my favorite kind of card story. Uh the Red’s TJ Fredel put on a reverse signing event with a local children’s hospital and reminded all of us what this hobby is truly all about. I’ve been very fortunate to be with the Red’s organization since I first signed and Red’s country runs all throughout. And so it’s really cool in the offseason when we do Redsfest, Red’s Caravan. We get to go on the road and we get to go out to Red’s Country and go out to elementary schools, go to different stops all throughout Red’s country. I’ve got to do those since 2017. So, it’s really cool to see how big and deep Red’s Country is. When I was was about 14, um going from my freshman to sophomore year of high school, uh I got a really bad staff infection in my sinus cavity in my eye and started in my ear. Woke up one morning and my my eye was swollen shut and I had a really big um uh just a big in infection in this whole area on my side of my face. And so I had to be rushed to uh San Francisco Children’s Hospital. And there, you know, I had to get all this all these surgeries done and they had to kind of clear everything out, clean everything out. I ended up spending about 4 weeks in the hospital. But in that time, the whole floor was kind of renovated and redone thanks to Barry Bonds. I gave a big donation to that wing of the San Francisco Children’s Hospital. We had like PlayStations in there and all this stuff. My room was all decorated. So it kind of helped make my four weeks in that hospital a little easier. And so I like to do a lot of work with the children’s hospital here um you know it means a lot to me and so whenever we have visits and stuff I try and take part in that. So for me having this platform and you know the blessing I have to be a Major League Baseball player to get to go visit children in the hospital and and just kind of take them out of their day for a second and just talk to them and get to know them and conversate with them. Especially someone at my agency reached out to me, John, and he brought up this idea and I said I love working with the children’s hospital. I love doing things for the children at the hospital and so let’s see if we can get something in in the works. And so we worked with Jim Myers over here with the Reds and they were able to get this reverse signing set up to where Topps made these special baseball cards for some of the children over at the hospital. Each card had a little fun fact about them on the back of something, you know, their favorite food or what their hobbies are, what they like to do. And then we got to host them here at Great American Ballpark and just have conversations with those kids was special. You’ve been to Switzerland? Oh my goodness. Was that beautiful? I’ve never been. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. You know, it was just something where I reached out to all the guys on my team. I said, “Hey, do you guys have 10 minutes? Come upstairs and we got all these kids up here. They got their own baseball cards. You can just go up and and get them to sign their card to give it to you.” Cuz it’s always the reverse, right? It’s always they’re asking for our autographs, but you know, in that moment, it was like, “Hey, I want you to sign your card for me so I can keep it and I can have it.” And, you know, all my teammates are so great. I think we had pretty much every single one of them turn out and go up there, take at least 5 to 10 minutes of their time. There was no signup sheet. There was no like, “Hey, if you guys could attend.” It was just, “Hey guys, we’re doing this reverse signing for these kids from the Children’s Hospital. If you can make it up, great. If not, totally understand.” So for pretty much all these guys to turn up and support kind of what I was putting on, it meant a lot to me. We have this platform and they always come out and support us. They come to our games, they support us and what we do out here on the field through the highs and the lows. And so just to give back to the community in itself is something that I take a lot of pride in. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you for the car. Want to keep this forever. Oh yeah, nice. This next piece is a new one. Pete Alonzo made Mets home run history in 2025, and the team partnered with Topps to recognize defeat with a special card giveaway during the final home game of the season. Now, this is something I want to see more of from every team in 2026 because it’s so cool. Watch. In honor of Pete breaking the Mets all-time home run record, we worked with Topps and PSA to create this really unique collectible. Topps obviously has their Tops Now program, which we love, and PSA is a partner that we’ve worked with for a long time. And so with both of them, we we were able to figure out a way to create something that we hadn’t seen before um as a giveaway. And we think fans are going to really love it. It’s a unique card for this moment, honoring Pete. It is also a unique card honoring the first time that a sports team is doing what we’re doing here today. It is truly a unique card. And Pete drives one to deep right center field headed back toward the wall. It’s out of here. Out of here. Pete Alonzo stands alone. The polar bear on his own private iceberg. Pete Alonzo, the most prolific home run hitter in New York Mets history. Watching him chase this record has been just as much about the fans as it has been about the record. When it happened, I think there was relief both from a project uh management side, but also just for Pete because I knew it meant so much to him and to Daryl as well. There was a real chase happening with the fans. They would show up to the stadium more often. They wanted to be a part of the history. They wanted to witness it with their own eyes. We wanted to keep that going, that energy and excitement going. We wanted to create something that has a little bit more collectibility. All the cards, even the base cards are are ran what we call super short print. So the blue card, I believe, is only 3,000 of those were printed. The orange parallel, I believe it’s only 1,000. The rainbow foil is 300. The cracked dice is only a 100 cards. And we actually created a really, really special card that’s actually a piece of Pete Alonzo’s batting glove when he actually broke the home run record. I mean, we only made three of those cards. There’s only a few of these, but they will be mixed in with the gate giveaway. So, anyone will have the chance to walk away with one of those. To have a Pete Alonzo card from the night that he actually broke the Mets home run record is an amazing piece of history. every single fan here will get a piece of that history and be able to take it home, whether it’s in a graded slab from PSA or or not. As fans, we’re always thinking about, man, can I catch a foul ball? Can I get an autograph before the game? But I think to know that you’re going to walk in with with your regular game day ticket and possibly walk away with a piece of history is pretty unique. And so our hope is that if we can do that multiple times throughout the year, it was just created a whole new place for our fans to kind of gravitate towards coming to the ballpark and finding something new and unique and fun. Baseball cards are iconic. I’m going to be looking for that fan that opens that card and the smile is going to be on their face and they’re going to be holding it the whole game. They’re never going to forget something like that. And uh I think that’s what this is all about. Well, our time for this episode is just about up. I’m going to enjoy a little downtime with my last pack rip of the year. Uh, you can check out our last piece of the season on Carded. We held a card themed team building event at MLB Network, which you know, I attended and it was a blast. Not just because I pulled the best card of the bunch. Of all the employees, I pulled the best card. Wait till you see this. It’s amazing. Anyway, thank you so much for watching this season of Carded. uh from the winter meetings in Orlando. My name’s Greg Am Singer. We’ll see you next year. I’m gonna jump into a little acrony because you know that’s what we do on Cardan. Come on, let’s keep that winning streak alive. No, Matt Chapman. I like Matt Chapman. Trific third baseman. Luis Roberts Junior’s going to have a bounceback season in 2026. I’m telling you, he will. No. Adrien Beltree, fresh Hall of Famer. That’s a good card. I love Willie Thomas. Willie Thomas is money. He is. You know what? I bet there’d be a lot of people here I can trade this with. I want to walk the halls here in Orlando. See if anyone wants my cards. All right, Anthony. It’s almost game time. There’s a lot to play for here. My kids would love to see this. People that are in the industry right now would drool over what you’re looking at. That’s it. The top’s chrome in the middle, which you really can’t see. All right, let’s see who’s going to go home after it. Three rules of pack work. Don’t open packs until I tell you to open up the packs. Answer the questions correctly. And three, have fun. We got a sign. That’s a cool one. Wait, what? What? Are you kidding? What did you bring that in from home or not bring that in? Yeah, I just pulled a signed mic out. There are 100 cards, packs of cards here and you pulled I pulled kind of like the crumble. Did I not? Yeah. Kind of did. He’s going to walk around. Yeah, it is played in the World Series but never won the World Series. I need a card of a death. Never. on the line. There we go. I got it. That was very insanely fast. Show. That’s a pack wars, folks. Anthony, when it comes to trivia, we are not quick to the trigger. Not our best day. No. As you can see, everything’s been given out and we don’t have anything in our hands. Well, we Well, you got something in your hand. We got a couple cards. You got a couple cards. I mean, I think I may have won the day. I may have won the day. I wouldn’t even say Matt, you won the day. You won. Mike Trout Auto. Feels good to win. A great day. Baseball cards Network goes hand in hand. I love feeling like a kid again. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like an adult, Dan. I’ve worked with you, Greg. They’ve noticed

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