The NY Mets have entrusted Ike Davis with 1st base and I am so glad, no offense to Mike Jacobs (no pun) also a former NY Met draft pick and he did show potential at one time, enough to land the NY Mets Mike Pizza.  Just not enough of late to land the 1st base job.  What has this done to the baseball card price of Ike Davis, well lets just say that if you do not own them yet, start buying them now!

This month’s Beckett publications has them rising at a pretty fast pace.  My favorite of his rookie cards is the 2008 Bowman Draft picks autograph.  The main reason I choose this card is that the card is autographed and really has little competition that year, at least yet.  Now Ike Davis is also part of the 2010 Topps Finest rookie checklist, but the overall odds of getting that card redemption autographed turns out to be a small percentage of the total run.

The baseball card price of the redemption card which is inserted (1) into every master box of the 2010 Topps Finest product is roughly anywhere from $20.00 to $40.00 that is pretty steep for a chance at an autographed card.  I say spend the $30.00 to $60.00 for the 2008 Bowman Draft picks card, and your chances of getting it highly graded are just as good as the Topps Finest product.  The rest of the Topps Finest checklist also include Stephen Strasburg (which is yet to be determined) but he will most certainly land either somewhere through #6 to #10, that much is certain.  Other notables to the set, and still cheap mainly because they have not a clue about what they are doing with the Florida Marlins, in Florida and Bobby Valentine appears to spreading the drama about his signing, in typical Bobby V fashion, is Michael Stanton a solid hitting and defending outfielder.  The baseball card price for his 2010 Topps Finest are falling and are landing somewhere in the $15.00 range.

Taking a look at the numbers between the two, Ike Davis is having a better year and is hitting for power, but to Stanton’s defense, Ike Davis has played many more games, but still he is a better bargain at their respective baseball card prices for the 2008 Bowman Draft Picks set.  I choose Ike!

Ike Davis – $30.00 to $60.00 – Mike Stanton – $60.00 – $120.00!