MLB Showdown 2005 Mini Set Part 1: Commons

Hey everyone, Matt here and today I am introducing a project that I have been working on for about 8 months if not longer. The 2005 season Mini set, Why did I choose 2005 is a great question, and I have a few answers for that. First, it was the first season that we didn't get a new showdown set. Personally it stopped for me after 2001, but for many of you collectors you kept going all the way until the very end. My second answer would be because I really wanted to see the ridiculous card that Andruw Jones put up with his crazy stat line. But either way what I did was take the qualified hitters and pitchers from the 2005 season, which produce 356 cards. So these aren't completely full teams but there are plenty of players in this set to go crazy with. This has been such an extended project to get cutouts for all these players, and man the 2005 image quality just isn't very good for everyone, you may notice some players are a little more blurry than others and that is why. Now there are a ton of cards to be posted, so this will be broken down over a 3 post series.

This post is the introduction of the set, the common cards, those love able cards that aren't the "foils" but still fill up the base of your team that you are building. Making some of these guys not foils was quite difficult, but I wanted to keep the number of foils down. I'm sure many will be opinionated on a couple not getting it but I needed to keep the number at a percentage similar to the 2000 showdown set.

Post Schedule:
Part 1: Commons
Part 2: Foils
Part 3: Historical Collection

The first 2 are self explanatory, but that third one is my favorite, and I am sure it will be many of your favorites, as players will be coming from all decades for every single team. This is my version of a pennant run type of sub set for this set. These cards will have a unique design that I think would look amazing as a printed out foil card. Get ready to add some of the games greats to your showdown collection with these guys, because they are truly some of the best of the best.

There are 314 commons in this set, that will be featured in this post, get ready to start building the bases of your teams with the Commons of the 2005 set:

Anaheim Angels:

Arizona Diamondbacks:

Atlanta Braves:

Baltimore Orioles:

Boston Red Sox:

Chicago Cubs:

Chicago White Sox:

Cincinnati Reds: 

Cleveland Indians:

Colorado Rockies:

Detroit Tigers:

Florida Marlins:

Houston Astros:

Kansas City Royals:

Los Angeles Dodgers:

Milwaukee Brewers:

Minnesota Twins:

New York Mets:

New York Yankees:

Oakland Athletics:

Philadelphia Phillies:

Pittsburgh Pirates:

San Diego Padres:

Seattle Mariners:

San Francisco Giants:

St. Louis Cardinals:

Tampa Bay Devil Rays:

Texas Rangers:

Toronto Blue Jays:

Washington Nationals:

Phew that is a ton of cards, and there will still be two more posts of cards from this set. I hope you enjoyed them all, take your time digesting them, it will be fun to gear all of your opinions on these players. Post 2 will be the foils of these teams that will be coming next and that is where the top guys of this set are hiding at.