2017 Spring Training success and discussion thread

[mnbigfoot]

Derek Law back today signed and personalized.

[alowe1034]

Neil Walker 1/1 c/o Mets

[Atlantaman]

Got Walker back as well yesterday. Signed 1/1 in 10 days.

[Smittzerland]

Got a couple back yesterday:

Neil Walker 2/2 c/o Mets
Travis Jankowski 1/1 c/o Padres

[bigbenjobu]

For whatever reason, the Braves don't accept spring training TTMs. This has happened to a bunch of people in the past, so a lot of us don't bother sending anything to the Braves until the regular season.

Thanks for the response! At least I know for the future now. I was so excited to see some mail back and then I saw the dreaded yellow sticker on the envelopes. I will have to send these along to the Braves in the regular season I guess.

[BillRoc206]

What's is a good cut-off for sending out to ST?
My first year and with my card collection a few years out of date I had to pick up a few cards before I could send these out.

Sent so far:

Pat Venditte
Mickey Moniak
Daulton Jefferies
Forrest Whitley
Trevor Story
Kyle Hendricks
Kevin Pillar
Mike Zunino

Going out this week:

Yovani Gallardo
Jean Segura (new team, still a long shot)
Leonys Martin
Steve Cishek
Luke Jackson
Mark Melancon
Nelson Cruz (long shot)
Taijuan Walker
Hisashi Iwakuma
Kyle Seager (long shot)
Corey Seager
Addison Russell
Michael Wacha
Michael Steele
Kyle Lewis
Neil Walker
Dan Wilson (supposedly instructing at the mariners camp this year)
Franklin Gutierrez ( ROMLB, have a GU bat but was afraid to risk it)

Am I aiming too high with these? Any suggestions for other players I should target?
Have a 2016 A & G base set I'm using as my primary cards, in addition to 6 5x7 jumbo cards
Just jumped into the TTM game recently and appreciate all the help this forum has given (et me know if Im posting this in the wrong area)

[BrianBoyle17]

I have a question about TTMs in general. This is my first year doing this and I sent out about like 22. But I realized that for the stadiums that have 2 teams, I didn't write the specific team is was going to but instead wrote just the player and address? Should I still be good or were they all wasted?

[mas]

I am not an expert. I would not write your submissions off completely, but it might delay things somewhat. In the future I would make sure to write "c/o team" on the spring training requests.

I don't know how their mail rooms work at the complexes. I know in some businesses with many employees, something sent to an employee without a department listed can result in delay. I would assume mail coming in without a team name on it might be delayed in knowing where to route it, depending on whether it is someone well known who is receiving a lot of mail or one of the prospects or not big name veterans there on a minor league deal trying to earn a roster spot.

I have a question about TTMs in general. This is my first year doing this and I sent out about like 22. But I realized that for the stadiums that have 2 teams, I didn't write the specific team is was going to but instead wrote just the player and address? Should I still be good or were they all wasted?

[bigbenjobu]

Looking forward to another round of ST autographs. I had a 30-40% success rate last year I would say. So far I have sent to the following players:

Ryan O'Rourke
Jason Grilli
Daniel Hudson
Clayton Kershaw
Brandon Cumpton
Chad Bettis
Josh Collmenter
Terry Pendleton
Jordy Mercer
John Jaso
Gregory Polanco
Adrian Beltre
Daniel Corcino
Barry Larkin
Josh Hamilton
Austin Meadows

Sent a 2nd round out this weekend to the following:

Arron Nola
Matt Dominguez
Kevin Newman
Scott Hatterberg
Nick Kingham
Reese McGuire
Pedro Strop
Scott Radinsky
Ben Revere
Neil Walker

Received failures this weekend that I sent to 2 Atlanta Braves (Josh Collmenter and Terry Pendleton)

[mnbigfoot]

Two more back today.
Taylor Motter 1/1 and
Jason Grilli 3/3