Player’s Name: Lyle Overbay
Player’s Position: 1B
Player’s Current Team: Toronto Blue Jays
Price I Paid for the Card: I got this card off of eBay for $1.00
Set it’s from: 2007 Sweet Spot
What it’s Worth: Beckett has it listed for $10.00.
Why I like this card: Someone once challenged me if I could find Sweet Spot autographs for under my 2 dollar limit. I thought about the best caliber player I could get for that kind of money. In collecting you have a tier system. The A tier is for Hall of Famers or future Hall of Famers (Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, ARod). The B tier is guys that had several great seasons, but no trip to the Hall (Delgado, Luis Gonzalez, Edmonds, Helton). The C tier are players with one of two good years (Mike Sweeny, Tony Batista, Eric Chavez) and the D tier is for everyone else. I was thinking that I would be able to get C and D type players. I would classify Overbay as that C type guy. He had two solid years in 2005 and 2006 and is a career 0.282 hitter. He is not an All Star and will never be one. No chance he’s going to the Hall of Fame, but if you needed a first baseman who won’t hurt you statistically and relatively speaking would work on the cheap (made 1.35 million last year). Overbay is your guy!
Why it’s a Cheap Hit: I don’t know how many of you know the idea behind the Sweet Spot box. But you get one pack of 5 cards. So in theory each card should be worth about $20 right? Wrong! You get one signed card (see above), 2 pieces of memorabilia, and 2 base set cards. Oh and you get a nice tin. This product is the biggest rip-off, next to UD Black of course, 5 freaking cards and your signed card might be a Lyle Overbay, oooof, that would suck! Still because of the limited version of these cards, I still classify this as a cheap hit, just because it costs so much to obtain.
Will if ever be worth more? HA! no way no how. It isn’t even worth the premium Beckett puts on it. A dollar is about right for this card.
