The Frogs (84-39) are 11.5 games back in the division, but have a 7-game lead for the #1 WC spot. The total cushion is +16 games for making/not making the playoffs. Things are fine. Not great. Not bad. Just fine.
I posted a couple of days ago that one of the team's needs is a big bat to play against righty pitchers. Well, right as I was starting to grumble about getting just 1 LIVE diamond (obviously Felipe Vazquez) from a run of ~180 packs, 100 Lou Gehrig popped out. My 4th packed perfect legend (Mathewson, Seaver, Ripken, Gehrig). I think Lou would qualify as big bat/DH material, but he's sort of the anti-Frog with his extreme pull tendency, his bad defense, and his low avoid K. He's only selling for 60-75K right now so I might give him next week as an audition and decide what to do after that. Plus, it could become an even more valuable card when the inevitable Yankees collection missions drop.
In addition to PEAK Iron Horse, we packed the best version (Unsung Heroes) of Tug McGraw so I might need to add him to the pen as a lefty specialist. Got Felipe Vazquez in consecutive packs (gross), and 2 Aaron Judge's in the
same pack. Weird. Also packed another gold Eck and another Smoky Burgess to help recoup some PP. Went back through my transaction log (all 1400+ pages) and counted up 3799 packs opened so far...
What's that? Time to open some packs?
