Righting Wrongs - 1999 Angels
It was always an absolute thrill to open a pack of MLB Showdown and pull a card of a star. Other times I'd pull trash cards and never think of them again. As I got older and had more of an eye of great players of yesteryear, I realized some of those trash players were actually pretty damn good in the 80s. And since the game stopped updating, some of those trash cards were of young players who would go on to develop into decent cards if the game had a 2006+ set. So let's use the Showdown Bot and see what some of those bad players from the original set would look like in a more favorable year for them... Gary was half of everyone's starting shortstop. He had a +4 defense but was useless on offense. 5 on-base, average speed and no extra base hit potential. It took me forever to pull another shortstop from a pack it seemed. I ended up trading Wade Boggs for Andy Fox just to put SOMETHING with some offense at Short...Then one day I pulled Omar Vizquel and Kevin Stocker in one p