CJ’s Baseball Card Shop

2024 was a calm year for collecting for me. I didn’t make any big purchases but still added a lot. I mainly collect Yu Darvish, Tanaka but also have a wide variety of Japanese-Born players & KBO players. Box 1 is all 406 unique Darvish cards. Box 2 is everything else… Thread ⬇️

A legendary game calls for a legendary viewership number as 10,784,000 viewers watched the #WorldBaseballClassic final on FOX and FOX Deportes - the most-watched #WBC telecast ever 🏆 The 2026 WBC averaged 1,294,000 viewers across FOX, FS1 and FS2, making it the most-watched #WBC in its 20-year history across English language networks.

Venezuela es 35 veces más grande que República Dominicana, pero nuestra isla siempre los ha dominado en beisbol: Record de República Dominicana vs Venezuela en el WBC: 5-1 Más peloteros activos en MLB: 100 Dominicanos 60 Venezolanos Peloteros totales en la historia en MLB: 915 Dominicanos 480 Venezolanos Campeonatos del WBC: 1 RD 1 Venezuela Títulos en series del caribe: 25 Dominicana 8 Venezuela Record 1 vs 1 en la serie del caribe: Se estima que Dominicana mantiene una ventaja de aproximadamente +30 victorias por encima de Venezuela en el acumulado de todas las etapas (1949-2026). Pero quieren hablar de una rivalidad que no existe, lo de Dominicana ante ustedes es DOMINIO ABSOLUTO, y eso duele.

As I said after the World Series, baseball has clearly re-established itself as the number-two sport in the country, behind football. There's no debate at this point. America wants to watch March baseball more than the culmination of the NBA season. The WBC final comfortably outdrew Games 1-6 of the 2025 NBA Finals and beat the series average. Before you pin that on Thunder-Pacers, the WBC Final also outdrew Game 4 of the 2024 NBA Finals and was 500,000 viewers shy of beating the series average. 2024 featured two top-10 TV media markets, legitimate NBA star power in Luka, and NBA royalty in the Celtics. There should be panic at NBA headquarters over this, and MLB should be terrified of a work stoppage that would kill this momentum.

With 10.87 million viewers on FOX and Fox Deportes, the World Baseball Classic Final outrated the seven-game average of the 2025 NBA Finals.

I don’t use comc a ton but after reading the tweet below I hopped on just to look. If you requested a bulk shipment today they estimate you will get your cards shipped by July 11th(for what it’s worth they are always late on their projected ship date) …. Wtf how can you be that horrible with shipping ? How can a company sustain business shipping 5 months after an order is placed. Crazy to me. @CheckOutMyCards you need to figure this out …

I'm moving on from @CheckOutMyCards. I've been using them for 12 years, but with changes they've made to their business model and their worst in class efficiency, I just don't see the value proposition as a buyer or seller anymore. Feels kind of sad but it is what it is.

@NickLoffer1 @X @grok Yes, it’s annoying

Is anyone else seeing on their following timeline accounts you’re not following and aren’t defined as ads? I don’t like this @X @grok Please fix.

Just one in the mail today. Numbered to /50

No. He shouldn’t have been the manager in 2023 or this year. Bring Jim Leyland back and he’ll have them winning a championship again.

TEAM VENEZUELA WINS THE #WORLDBASEBALLCLASSIC! 🇻🇪

@WBCBaseball Eduardo Rodriguez pitched a gem.

TEAM VENEZUELA WINS ITS FIRST #WORLDBASEBALLCLASSIC!

The #WorldBaseballClassic has met the moment, and @FOXSports’ coverage continues to match it! Team USA's semifinal win over the Dominican Republic on Sunday delivered the most-watched #WorldBaseballClassic telecast of all time with 7,369,000 viewers across FS1 and FOX Deportes. 🥇 USA's ticket punch to the #WBC Final was the most-watched telecast on FS1 since 2019 (9th most-watched telecast on the network overall).

Shohei Ohtani is set to make an estimated $125 million from endorsements this year, the highest total of any athlete ever, and more than 10x what any other MLB player is earning off the field

@TheRaysin Game 7s are always on a Tuesday or Wednesday for MLB

Also why tf couldn’t we line it up to have the final on a weekend night instead of a Tuesday lol

I feel like this WBC scheduling is a little crazy by making one of the semi winners have to play back to back games which automatically puts their bullpen at a disadvantage lol

🇻🇪 When Salvador Perez talked with me tonight pregame before the win about a potential title for his country, you could hear the weight of its significance in his voice. “I’m playing for my family…it’s hard for them to get a Visa to come see. I’m playing for the 30 million people back home. Even the ones who don’t like me.” It’s far bigger than baseball. Congrats Team Venezuela. Unreal.

🇯🇵⚾️ A couple of things Japanese baseball should reflect on in general following the loss to Venezuela to be eliminated from the #WorldBaseballClassic. There were many questionable decisions throughout the tournament and a 1 game sample doesn't reflect talent level. But they looked shaky at times in the pool stage and simply weren't good enough today. - The dead ball era isn't breeding a competitive environment for anybody. Pitchers like Tatsuya Imai are going to MLB, saying NPB is essentially "too easy" because no one can hit a home run off him. Pitchers can scrape by without maximizing their stuff. The majority of hitters are struggling to hit for any power and aren't adjusting well (Pull Air, non-optimal launch angles, etc). - Compared to other countries, including Korea, Japan has struggled to produce dynamic, multi-tooled players. Beyond Ohtani, the lineup had very little in the way of combining power and speed. The fact that they have to choose between pure offense vs. pure defense at multiple spots on the diamond is a problem. - NPB has been late to adopt or even consider changes from MLB/KBO (universal DH, pitch clock, pickoff limits, etc). It isn't necessary to simply copy what other leagues are doing. But going into a tournament with different rules makes it inherently harder. - Hiring managers and coaches (both NPB and national team) based on who was a legendary player does not breed innovation or new ideas. - NPB has not only shown zero willingness to do international outreach but has also actively made it harder for domestic fans to post about their favorite teams and players through archaic social media restrictions. - The posting system obviously needs reform, but in its current state, more and more players will skip NPB to start their careers stateside at the collegiate or minor league level. Even with the eligibility changes to the NPB Draft, more amateurs will be developed outside of NPB. It remains to be seen what comes of players like Rintaro Sasaki, Shotaro Morii, Genei Sato, etc, but, just as in soccer, there will come a time when the "domestic" and "foreign" cores are more isolated than ever. Long-term, we need to better understand the development upsides of each path, whether players can get the best of both worlds, and how Samurai Japan can best integrate both.

I have 3 of these left in stock. Nice 600 card lots for under $100. ⬇️⬇️

@Junction_Boy Yah I think the writers are looking at catchers different now. Posey, Molina are all locks. Mauer is already in and I think over time Perez will get in.

@CJsCardShop Yes

Salvador Pérez. Future Hall Of Fame catcher, Yes or no?

@freehan11 But Freehan and Munson still not in.

100% Yes! #CatchersRULE

Wow Morishita!