TTM Successes March-May 2014

Here are my recent TTM successes since I last posted...apologies for any reposts:

Casper Wells

 Blake Beavan

Brandon Barnes

Inscribed MLB Debut, 1st MLB Home Run, 1st MLB Hit

eBay

Kirk Saarloos

Charlie Furbush

Justin Maxwell

JB Shuck

Lucas Harrell

Ty Hensley

Cat Osterman

JD Martinez

BJ Hermsen

Jedd Gyorko

Pat Neshek

Brandon McCarthy (with a really funny note after writing the wrong name)

Warren Moon

Brady Quinn

Zach Britton

Travis Milne (Rookie Blue, most smeared :( )

Levi Michael

Justin Nicolino

Jimmy Nelson

Kevin Pillar

Wade Boggs

Dirk Nowitzki

Josh Collmenter

CJ Cron

Alex Meyer

Lars Anderson

Jordan Zimmermann

Matt Davidson

David Phelps (MLB Debut Ticket)

Charlie Blackmon

Lucas Giolito

TTM Returns 3/10-3/15

Several Spring Training returns this week...

Logan Morrison: 1/1
Out: 3/3  In: 3/10
Super fast return from 1 of my favorite players. Can't wait to meet him when the Mariners come here next month

David Murphy: 3/3
Out: 3/1  In: 3/10
Jersey card smeared a bit but still very pleased with the return

Lucas Luetge: 2/2
Out: 3/1  In: 3/1

Steve Cishek: 2/2
Out: 3/1  In: 3/11

JJ Putz: 5/5
Out: 2/27  In: 3/12

Jordan Zimmermann: 1/1
Out: 2/10  In: 3/12

Brad Ausmus: 2/4
Out: 3/1  In: 3/12

Chris Parmelee: 3/4
Out: 2/24  In: 3/12

Jed Lowrie: 2/3
Out: 2/10  In: 3/12

Jed Lowrie: 2/3
Out: 2/24  In: 3/14

Jonathan Meyer: 4/4
Out: 2/10  In: 3/15

TTM Returns

A few returns the past couple days...

Brad Ziegler: 3/4
Out: 2/24  In: 3/6

Brad Ausmus: 2/4
Out: 2/24  In: 3/6

Tom Wilhelmsen: 4/4
Out: 3/1  In: 3/7

Pat Neshek: 15/15, 20/20
Out: 2/24  In: 3/7
Sent a few Ricky Rubio signed cards to make up for sending so many

Ned Yost: 2/2
Out: 3/1  In: 3/8

TTM Returns 2/28/14

Today I received 6 TTM returns; a slow Spring Training finally heated up today. I think all the snow we've gotten recently has been wreaking havoc on my mail delivery. I didn't have any mail for the past 3 days and today I had about 20 pieces!

Mike Olt: 2/2
Out: 2/10  In: 2/28

And then I got 6 returns from my favorite player Brandon Barnes!!!

Brandon Barnes: 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5
Out: 2/10  In: 2/28
I have about 130 Brandon Barnes cards to get signed so this puts a nice dent into that total :)
I'm really impressed with how nice he is and what a great signer he is. It makes me sad seeing him in a Rockies uniform this spring

TTM Returns 2/24/14

2 returns in today...

Vance Worley: 1/4, signed 1 & kept 3
Out: 2/10  In: 2/24

 Coby Fleener: 6/6
Out: 1/6  In: 2/24

Updates

Graphing has been slow lately. I thought I'd gotten back into the TTM game with a hot streak of returns but not much since. I mailed out 20 Spring Training requests yesterday. I have about 75 left to mail out once my student loan refund comes this week.

I graphed my favorite team, the Houston Rockets, when they were here the other week. It was just awful.

Donatas Montiejunas: 1/1

TTM has been slow as well but have gotten some good returns

Taylor Schilling: 3/3 c/o Orange is the New Black
Out: 1/4  In: 2/20
Amazing success!! I love her in Orange is the New Black! So excited to get this back

Lars Anderson: 2/5
Out: 3/11/13  In: 2/20

Ryan Church: 4/4
Out: 1/6  In: 2/14

David Lough: 1/4 (MLB debut ticket)
Out: 4/29/13  In: 2/15

Jamie Moyer: 7/7, 7/7, 7/7, 7/7

Weekly Recap 1/26-2/1

Slow week of graphing but got a few TTM returns

Brian Bogusevic: 5/5 c/o home
Out: 1/6  In: 1/27
Fast Return from the former Astro. Very happy to get him back

Dirk Nowitzki: 1/1 8x10, 1/1 card
8x10 Out: 1/4  In: 1/31
Card Out: 1/6  In: 1/31

I also had a friend get a few things signed for me at Twinsfest. I really appreciated him taking the time to get me Scott Diamond since he was very hard for me to get outside the stadium this year. I saw him sign multiple times inside, but I was always doing the visiting team and never had my photos for him. I got him on a 16x20. He also got me a few prospects. I decided to skip Twinsfest this year because tickets went up to $20/day, it was moved to Target Field so wouldn't be as fruitful as the Metrodome, and there were no free lines.

Scott Diamond: 1/3

BJ Hermsen: 4/8

Jose Berrios: 1/1