Spring Training Signing Tutorial- How do I do it? First Time...

[tigsfan]

I'll edit in my list here shortly, I'm currently around 60% from ST 2010! (30/50)

Garrett Atkins - 12 days
Brad Ausmus - 12 days
Dusty Baker - nothing
Heath Bell - 12 days
Milton Bradley - 19 days
Matt Cain - nothing, but have been coming back this past month
Aaron Cook - nothing
Chad Cordero - 19 days
Zach Duke - nothing
Ryan Feierabend - 9 days
Alfredo Figaro - 9 days
Jeff Francis - 104 days
Lucas French - 7 days
Ron Gardenhire - nothing
Jon Garland - 67 days
Adrian Gonzalez - nothing, but have been coming back this past week
Aaron Hill - 93 days
Edwin Jackson - nothing
Josh Johnson - nothing
John Lackey - fail
John Lannan - nothing
Matt LaPorta - 9 days, personalized
Tim Lincecum - nothing
Jesse Litsch - 13 days
John Maine - 10 days
Shaun Marcum - 16 days
Dallas McPherson - nothing
Brian Moehler - 10 days
Fu-Te Ni - 9 days
Hideki Okajima - 9 days
Buster Posey - nothing (no letter, no card, he just kept everything of mine!)
David Price - nothing
J.J. Putz - 14 days
Mike Rabelo - 9 days
Jon Rauch - 14 days
Fernando Rodney - nothing
CC Sabathia - nothing
Pablo Sandoval - nothing
Joe Saunders - nothing
Dan Schlereth - 9 days
George Sherrill - 23 days, personalized
Matt Stairs - 98 days
Clete Thomas - nothing (not even a RTS like many other got)
Alan Trammell - REFUSED, RTS
Jacob Turner - 9 days
Brandon Webb - nothing
Jake Westbrook - 207 days
Ty Wigginton - 23 days
David Wright - nothing
Ben Zobrist - nothing

Here's the Miguel Cabrera info
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/det/co...foundation.jsp

[djauwerda]

Here were my attempts from last Spring Training. Not many successes, but if they were they are listed as such.

Doumit, Ryan
Drew, Stephen
Gonzalez, Adrian- Got it back in about 2 weeks
Greinke, Zach
Pierzynski, AJ- Got it back in May
Votto, Joey- Got it back after the season
Hill, Aaron
Zimmerman, Ryan
Zobrist, Ben
Billingsley, Chad
Braden, Dallas
Cuddyer, Michael
Ellsbury, Jacoby
Hall, Bill
Inge, Brandon
Jones, Adam- Got it back in about a month
Lasorda, Tommy
Ludwick, Ryan
Mauer, Joe- Cards were returned in May with a note saying he only signs IP.
Upton , Justin

I was really disappointed with the lack of returns from last spring, but that's the nature of the beast. I'll have some more ready to go out this spring...

[indyreds]

Here is a related thread:
https://www.sportscardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1226565

[Redman5006]

Thanks guys, just what I was looking for.

[the305]

Does anyone know if Heyward or Posey would sign ttm in ST?

Don't bother with Heyward ... not going to happen cause he thinks it will end up on eBay. IP better chance but he will personalize it

[Redman5006]

Don't bother with Heyward ... not going to happen cause he thinks it will end up on eBay. IP better chance but he will personalize it

I got him to sign a baseball IP and he didnt sign the sweetspot. He was very nice though.

[cyberer]

do guys sign more IP in spring training? I am thinking about making a trip down to tampa where my family has a place for phillies/yankees/rays etc

[skapunk5251]

I just got a spring training return from Brett Anderson of the A's today after 311 days.

[cyberer]

Now that my Eagles are eliminated, I am turning my attention 90% to Spring Training TTM requests (the remaining 10% on NBA in person auto planning). I have written several letters and sealed them with SASEs, I am just waiting to send them. Here is my roster of requests so far:

Matt Cain
Heath Bell
Jim Thome (waiting until he signs somewhere he's 1 of my all time favorite players).

Anyone have some "sure things" to add?

[jyosi]

do guys sign more IP in spring training? I am thinking about making a trip down to tampa where my family has a place for phillies/yankees/rays etc

Good luck with the Phillies and Yankees. Those places will be packed and tough to do. You will have a good time if you get to do the Rays. They are a little farther from Tampa, but a great signing bunch and they don't get all the tourists clogging the place up that the other clubs do. Doing games during the spring isn't as good as it sounds. The people that get tons of stuff signed at spring training are doing the workouts in February weeks before games even start.