Sorting my cards - finding Elian Herrera

Spring training is around the corner and perhaps I'm looking into updating my stash of cards I'm trying to get autographs on otherwise - Herrera’s name came up as a guy who maybe in camp with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but in case I wanted to send him a TTM request or something, it became a joke I had no idea where to find his cards,

I wondered if the cards were buried in a rubble of loose cards somewhere never to be unearthed - the misplaced cards maybe about a dime each, but I don’t want to feel incomplete and distressed about my collections not being in order to the point where I can't find the most obscure cards.

I may have squirreled the cards away in one of my ‘silly’ loose card projects like perhaps my off-season transactions mini-collection - maybe in a random group cards I've pulled to list as part of one of my mini-collections.

The Herrera cards were just not in the obvious places, but I ended up flipping through random cards I stuffed in a 3200 count box of cards - when I actually spotted Herrera’s cards in a small, miscellaneous grouping of loose cards and found the following, one 2012 Topps Update Series #US38, the two 2012 Bowman Draft #51 cards I was originally whining about and a 2014 Topps Update #US-30.

Who are these guys

Cards for an Arizona Fall League trip perhaps - scheming, planning to get more depth as far as unsigned cards to be autographed, I fear that I spend too much to hoard cards that may mean nothing after the fact.

2008 Bowman Draft Kenny Wilson #BDPP 3
2008 Bowman Draft Adrian Nieto #BDPP 9
2009 Bowman Draft Robert Hefflinger #BDPP 48
2011 Bowman Draft Alex Dickerson #BDPP 27
2011 Bowman Kyle Kubitzka #BDPP 74 - x2
2011 Topps Heritage Minors Garin Cecchini #42
2011 Topps Heritage Minors Todd Glaesmann #120
2011 Topps Heritage Minors Elmer Reyes #194
2011 Topps Heritage Minors Yorman Rodriguez #198
2011 Topps Pro Debut Dallas Beeler #275
2012 Bowman Keith Couch #BP 29 - x2
2012 Bowman Cheslor Cuthbert #BP 58
2012 Bowman Matt Purke #BP 80
2012 Bowman Danny Hultzen #BP 87
2012 Bowman Tyler Collins #BP 106
2012 Bowman Brandon Jacobs #BP 93 - x2
2012 Bowman Draft Tyler Naquin #BDPP 9 - x3
2012 Bowman Draft Andrew Heaney #BDPP 12 - x2
2012 Bowman Draft James Ramsey #BDPP 27
2012 Bowman Draft Richie Shaffer #BDPP 30 - x2

Featured autograph - Kole Calhoun

Calhoun has never been any sort of top prospect and his path to get to the Major Leagues has been a little bit more pedestrian - but he has been able to hit wherever he has played, so he still has a little upside if given an opportunity to play on a somewhat regular basis in the next year or so.

Obviously he isn't Mike Trout, but Calhoun already fits the mold of a fan favorite - so Angels fans are clamoring for him to get a prolonged opportunity to see what he can do.

Mail day - 2012 Bowman Draft R.J. Alvarez Red Ice parallel