No first round pick? No problem.
Full list of 2015 Mets draft picks
Thanks to the Michael Cuddyer signing, the Mets didn’t make their first pick in the 2015 draft until #53. While you can understand (even if you don’t agree with) the reasoning behind reluctantly giving up a first round pick when the goal is to win now, it certainly makes it hard to get excited about the draft. The Mets had to be hoping that some signable top talent would fall into the second round. As a collector, I was just hoping for someone who would make it into the fall’s autograph lineup (though last year’s top Mets pick Michael Conforto is still waiting for his Bowman Chrome autograph, due out this Friday). September is here and there is reason to hope for some nice prospect autographs from this group in the coming months.
With their top pick, the Mets took Desmond Lindsay, who was left off most amateur top prospect lists due to injury. The Mets obviously thought he was worth the risk and saw him as clear first-round talent. So far, he has performed well enough to earn a promotion to Brooklyn and should be the obvious choice for a Mets representative in upcoming draft products.
Once again, this year’s draft class had plenty of autographs available on draft day thanks to Leaf. After Lindsay, Max Wotell, Thomas Szapuki, Sixto Torres, Brendan Illies, and L.T. Tolbert (who apparently goes by a variety of names) all have Leaf Perfect Game autographs. Of them, all but the last two signed with the Mets.
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2014 Mets Draft Class Autographs
2013 Mets Draft Class Autographs
2012 Mets Draft Class Autographs
2011 Mets Draft Class Autographs
The evolution of the Bowman brand has been interesting lately. Since the last major redesign in 2012, Bowman has added ice parallels, wave refractors, and mini shimmer refractors, removed the First Bowman Card designation, added a new 1st Bowman designation, introduced Bowman Black autographs, confused collectors with 2013 Kris Bryant Bowman Chrome autographs in 2014 products, added wrapper redemptions, ended wrapper redemptions, dropped the pretense of a “base set” in Bowman Draft, and much, much more. After three years of incremental improvements, Topps reshuffled the deck in 2015 and brought order to an increasingly chaotic product.
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