Checking in on THE Collection

 It's been a long time since I last blogged about Luis Torrens pick-ups. I made a lot but I didn't think blogging about them as they popped up was really necessary. Especially since they were essentially just the same card but merely in different colors.

That said I was able to finally sit down and restore my Torrenterion Collection page where I show my entire Torrens collection. When Blogspot changed its layout a while ago it suddenly became hard to update the old collection page so I had to delete that and create a new one. But I found out the hard way that it's hard to recreate a page that was built up across multiple years. Especially since I wanted to go back and fix past mistakes like my piss poor crop jobs on scans when I was first starting to blog back in 2014 and 2015. It took me seven hours but the page is finally back. If nothing else than because I needed it back online to let me know what I already have.

The collection page is up to date and all of the newest pick-ups are already on there, but here's a blogpost for a few of them that I think are worth talking about.

Might as well get the big 1/1 out of the way.

A certified yellow printing plate auto.

Make that two 1/1's.

If you're wondering about the signature, it's not certified and was already on it by the time I bought the card. Considering that I lost out on it unsigned earlier in the year, I think what happened was that whoever did win the plate got it signed by Torrens somewhere, then sold it on eBay. I don't like supporting people who sell IP or TTM autographs but this is a plate so, eh, gonna have to just accept it this time.

Oh wait, make that three 1/1's. Two plates and a 1/1 blank back from the Topps Vault (their eBay page).

Adding three 1/1's in a single year. Not terrible.

With these I now have 25 different Torrens 1/1's. The fact that it's getting very annoying/hard to get all of them in one shot is a good sign that I'm building up a decent collection.

I picked up bunch of Torrens from 2021 Topps Update and didn't blog about them because they're all the same boring picture and the parallels are really lame. I posted the vintage stock parallel up there because that might be my favorite out of all of them. Not that Topps needs any more useless parallels but I really do miss some of what I thought were cool parallels when I was starting to collect in 2011 like the silks or the Hope Diamond parallels, those looked and felt nice. There's nothing to talk about with the more recent parallels except that no one will ever complete any rainbow because there's like 5-6 different 1/1's.

I'm a little more closer with Topps Update Chrome Sapphire or whatever it's called. Only need the two (yes two) 1/1's, because of course I do. This set had no plates but instead the 1/1's are the superfractor and something called a "padparadscha". 

A red border parallel of Torrens from 2022 Topps Heritage. Because retail exclusive parallels are back apparently. I've also learned that Heritage has something called a "French text" parallel numbered to 73 copies, I assume it's an homage to the Canadian market OPC cards. Either way I still need that. Ugh.

A Topps Now card. Torrens' first Topps Now card.

A different Topps Now card, this one actually matters because it commemorates the walk-off he had against the Yankees back in August. The Mariners, being a complete joke of a team, DFA'd him after that. He's since been banished to triple-A and was even used as a second baseman.

Sucks but at least Torrens' last big league moment (as of right now) was ending one of the best (or worst if you're a Yankees fan) games in recent memory.

Also luckily for me there were a few parallels accompanying the 5 cards I ordered. I knew that Topps Now had parallels now but I wasn't expecting to get three of them.

Those three colors there are the /5, the /25 and /49. So I just need the 1/1 and one of the /10's for the rainbow.

So all in all, getting the collection page up and running again was pretty time consuming but it was really nice to just sit down and revisit my collection for the first time in a long time. It also helped me get a better idea of where I was at with all of these rainbows and what I need to look out for going forward. I also appreciate that I know how many cards I have of Torrens again.

184, and counting.

Also I did get a needs list of sorts up and running too. Purely for my own reference. I'm probably missing a few cards but I know I need about 61 Torrens cards, more than half are 1/1's. Great, just great.

Thanks always for stopping and take care.