Thanks for Mike Howard!
So, as we head into late June, who is the hottest team in MLB? Not the Angels, they've only been playing .500 ball of late. (Of course, when you start 28-2 and 40-10, .500 the rest of the way should be enough.)
No, it's your New York Mets, proud owners of a 9-game win streak! Thus lifting them all the way to…25-40. (Yikes) They now find themselves only two games behind the Cubs, and in danger of blowing that #1 draft pick and thus, Darryl Strawberry. (They are already ahead of the A's, Jays, and Padres.)
Meanwhile, the Cubs (once 22-20) have dropped 17 out of 21. It is, unsurprisingly, the pitching. Mike Thompson (proud possessor of a 7.48 ERA) is certainly not the solution in the pen, so the Cubs are supplementing their 32nd-round pick (Thompson) with their 35th-round pick, Richard Renwick.
(Of course, neither player should be available, as the 1979 draft only took place on June 5th, but I'm not going to try and pull 1000+ players out of the database.)
Renwick went to the baseball powerhouse that is Babson College, where he had a double major in Finance and Management. IRL, he had a fine season in rookie ball in 1979, did even better for Quad Cities in 1980, and then apparently got hurt in 1981, ending his career. He then put that degree to good work, founding PRW Wealth Management, which means he has now pursued the two quintessentially American careers: baseball and Greed.
But that's in the future. All that matters in the game is that, since Renwick was on the same Quad Cities team as Thompson, he has a card from the same set:
