I guess for me it's if you weren't playing when I started collecting baseball cards in '89, and your rookie cards weren't worth a lot in the Beckett Guide if you played before that, I never heard of you. Them's the breaks.

Detroit basically gave him away to California! I guess it worked out within a few years, but man... Also, Thompson juuuuust missed contention with all three of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and California.

It irritates me that it says ANA and not CAL for him, especially since ANA wasn’t who he played for and it isn’t even their current designation anyway