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Are you serious? Braun not likely to be in the HOF. Your so wrong it is funny...Ryan Braun was clearly paving a HOF career. His stats through the start of his career were some of the best EVER.

5 straight SS
5 straight AS appearances
Rookie of the Year
THREE top top three MVP vote finishes(1,2,3,11,15,24)<has gotten votes every year of career

....He was clearly headed towards a 1st ballot HOFer. Now he can only hope half a season of PEDs can be looked at less badly when he retires.

I think any player who does get a suspension, wont be the same player afterwards. The fans will always see them as liars and cheaters and by the reaction of the players, they seem to have had enough of this also. If the MLBPA hadn't agreed to the new drug policy, we wouldn't be having a discussion about 150 game or lifetime bans. In my opinion, there will be a huge dump of these players cards and the values will plummet. There will be a few collectors who are willing to take a risk , snatch these up cheap and play the waiting game. I did the same thing when Pujols made , what we then considered a huge mistake, the decision to leave my World Champion Cardinals. I didn't dump my PC but found a lot of disgruntled St. Louis fans who did and picked up entire collections for pennies on the dollar. I wont get rich from it but that wasn't my intention anyways. It gave me the financial opportunity to grow my collection . One man's junk is another man's treasure.

Beckett focuses on the "trendy" or "hot" players of the moment. They don't think today's collectors are interested in older players, although, with Nolan Ryan an executive with the Rangers, you have to believe that there is a market for him in Texas, if not also nationally, because he's "still in the game".

Back on point. Beckett will take a wait & see approach before deciding to drop prices on PED-tainted players. Meaning, it'll be after the season before the numbers drop at the earliest.

Amen on the Boras comment but Beckett media needs to be held accountable too. They are like the futures market. There is no way a Yasiel Puig or Bryce Harper autograph is worth more than any Nolan Ryan, Willie Mays or Hank Aaron autograph. Gimme a break. I don't care if it's just a "guide" as people look at it as "set in stone." Ebay has more pull on price than Beckett.

Stick a fork in Rodriguez, he's done, SOL, etc.. He's bringing this on himself by being a defiant, petulent child about this. He knows he's busted, and yet, he's trying to weasel out. The worst part about that is the the tabloid media in NYC is eating it up and forcefeeding it to the masses because they think it sells papers.

As far as card prices go, I'd say, sell now, because once Rodriguez gets suspended, be it for 100 games or permanently, the cards will crash faster than the stock market did nearly 100 years ago. I'm not joking. As for McGwire, Canseco, et al, their cards aren't even considered star cards by Beckett anymore, and this close to falling into the penny pile. A-Rod will join them soon enough. Braun, too.

It makes you wonder about the players' agents and why they couldn't warn their clients about this fool's folly (Yeah, I'm looking at Scott Boras, the biggest con artist among agents on the planet). Were Boras and others looking the other way, more concerned with their profit margins than their players' future health? Probably. They've got to be held accountable, too.

Originally Posted by demonhunter69

I think the cards of the suspended or potentially banned players are done. Values will plummet and they probably wont be in the Hall of Fame. Brauns stuff has already taken a hit. Look at Sosa, McGwire and Bonds cards, pennies on the dollar of what once was. Wait till Arod gets his suspension or worse banned for life. I hate that but its coming. He is able to play now but the Yankees don't want another circus so they wont play him. I see his sp Foil rookie dropping below 35 bucks before all is said and done. I personally don't mind peds because I like to see monster home runs. Steroids don't help you hit a baseball, they help you hit it harder and farther. Recovery time for someone on roids is virtually a day if that. Its when they get off the drugs when the problems begin. Look at Canseco and Mac, look at dare I say Griffey? WOW I KNOW. Its an opinion and only an opinion. When these players came off the peds, which were not banned at the time, they had chronic back injuries...etc. So just wait. When this cycle tumbles down, the cards of the suspended will be used as bike spoke motors. No offense.

True, but before McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, and Canseco were caught they were considered very likely to be in the HoF. It was almost expected, and missing out on that expectation hurt. Out of the names listed in this, none stand out as HoFers. A-Rod did 5 years ago but people have been thinking for a while he isn't going to get in, Braun is good but was never HoF likely, and with everyone else there is little chance. If players like Jeter were on this list than their prices would be impacted significantly.

I think the cards of the suspended or potentially banned players are done. Values will plummet and they probably wont be in the Hall of Fame. Brauns stuff has already taken a hit. Look at Sosa, McGwire and Bonds cards, pennies on the dollar of what once was. Wait till Arod gets his suspension or worse banned for life. I hate that but its coming. He is able to play now but the Yankees don't want another circus so they wont play him. I see his sp Foil rookie dropping below 35 bucks before all is said and done. I personally don't mind peds because I like to see monster home runs. Steroids don't help you hit a baseball, they help you hit it harder and farther. Recovery time for someone on roids is virtually a day if that. Its when they get off the drugs when the problems begin. Look at Canseco and Mac, look at dare I say Griffey? WOW I KNOW. Its an opinion and only an opinion. When these players came off the peds, which were not banned at the time, they had chronic back injuries...etc. So just wait. When this cycle tumbles down, the cards of the suspended will be used as bike spoke motors. No offense.

..........last Thanksgiving I saw an ad, some guy wanted to sell his collection. I think his wife wanted it out of the garage. Anyway, I ended up buying the whole thing for about $150. It was about 50,000 cards. I'm
still sorting it...lol. Their wasn't really any vintage stuff. Most from 1981-1993 or so. A lot of complete sets from 1986-1989. But, a lot of it I didn't have and my collection went from 25,000 cards to 75,000.

I like seeing the different things he collected. His autographed cards that I ended up getting and didn't know about. Candy Maldonado, Joe Niekro,Geoff Zahn, and there was a Barry Bonds autographed card.

I also noticed that a complete base set cost about $55 or so when it comes out. If you wait like 4 years
you can get that set for like $35-$40 including shipping on ebay.........happy collecting

Thank you! A 10 cent BV card that has a personal value to you is better than a 100$ BV card that you don't have any connection to

Great article. I use a lot of your tips and have a collection that I am proud of and enjoy very much.