Contributing to that overall glumness is the way his left arm and the uniform piping on his left leg lead one right down to the ground. Even though he hasn't released the baseball yet, one can't help but think this pitch might hit the ground in front of the plate.
And a final piece of the downbeat nature of this card is the background. Arizona is on the road here, so the weather could be doing about anything, but it does not seem to be a sunny day in Philadelphia, here. Cincinnati, maybe? I do actually like the background of this card; it is a bit ominous almost, yet still somehow comforting.
+Bonus points for the perfect R logo on the glove there.
Uniform Hero? Yep, still chugging along just fine, though Arizona doesn't really help out with a uniform # on their 2012 road unis. That has changed these days, with a somewhat oddly colored # on their road uniforms. Look for that on a baseball card near you.
Where’d the egg hatch? Hudson was drafted in the 5th round by the White Sox in 2008.
How about the migrations? Daniel would then debut late in 2009, earning a Win in his 2nd MLB start in Chicago in 2009, with a unique tagline. I will just paste it in here for you, direct from Wikipedia, so you can be ready for your next baseball trivia throw-down: "That victory completed the rare accomplishment, and perhaps unique in baseball history, of recording wins in five different levels of professional baseball, including the majors, in one season." I hope that is on the back of one of his other baseball cards.
However he never pitched all that much for the White Sox before they traded him to Arizona at the 2010 trade deadline. The piece moving to Chicago? Edwin Jackson. I can already tell I am not looking forward to unraveling Jackson's career when I reach his cards.
Hudson would then finally earn a rotation spot in Arizona and pitch very well in 2011 - I suspect that probably made him the brightest light available at #41 for Topps on this checklist.
In 2012, however, the almost inevitable 21st Century MLB Pitcher experience arrived: injury. And for Hudson, Tommy John surgery during that season. He was expected to return in 2013, which was probably why this card was created; but that didn't work out. In his first post-surgery start, he tore that one tendon again, and had a 2nd Tommy John surgery during the 2013 season.
Afterwards, Hudson has worked as a reliever, generally of the "middle" type, which we do not always see on baseball cards. Post-Arizona stops included a season each with the Pirates and the Dodgers.
The dawn of the 2019 baseball season sees him in camp in Arizona with the Angels. Though only on a non-guaranteed "minor league" deal, I think he will probably throw some more innings in MLB in 2019.
Don’t flip over real Turtles.
I guess as I discover all the hidden details of all the Sea Turtles, I will have to start considering if Topps always issues a card for a Pitcher's "Tommy John" year. Maybe I would have to consider a given player in the 2014, or 2012 set, instead, to determine that. Doing the surgery in mid-season is the one way a Pitcher can undergo the procedure and still pitch in consecutive seasons, though at different ends of each one.
Anyhow, I do like teammate quotes on a card back, but find it pretty puzzling that only the word "surgery" is used here, rather than the full 3 word term.
Can the Turtle Catch the Rabbit?
CAREER CHASE: With 28 wins, Hudson is 483 away from Cy Young's all-time record of 511.
Well, he did have that 16 Win season in 2011, so that's a start.
As the 2019 season commences, Daniel Hudson has reached 40 Wins.
Subspecies? Considering that Hudson was unlikely to appear in an MLB game until late in 2013, his inclusion in the Opening Day set makes for one of the more puzzling such entries in that short checklist. Maybe Arizona is just too far away for Brooklynites to keep track of the Diamondbacks very well. This card does not appear in '13 Chrome, nor has any variants.
Topps would figure out that Hudson didn't pitch in 2013 and then not issue a card for him in 2014, when he returned to play. And then maybe they decided to make something up to him by including him in the 2016 set, and then in the 2016 Update set, as an Arizona Diamondback on each card. Go figure.
Bling That Shell I keep telling y'all that I don't really want to use the /99 Camo cards in the All-Parallel set, and then I keep doing it anyway. I am particularly pleased to own this card, as it is # 01/99, which I am pretty sure is the first time I have ever owned a serial # 1 card. But then outside of this project, I never keep or collect serial #'d cards, anyway. I hope somewhere along the way, I luck into having a /x parallel where the serial number is = x.
But the Camos do help increase variety in the set, and they are pretty much _the_ team parallel for the D'backs:
But the Camos do help increase variety in the set, and they are pretty much _the_ team parallel for the D'backs:
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