Gint-A-Cuffs Practice: 2010 Topps Series 2 Warm Up - Part 2

It's time for the second pack of cards for each "player."  Let's see how it goes.  Before that, a reminder of the scoring:

Base cards:
Cincinnati Reds: +10
Pittsburgh Pirate: +5
New York Yankee: -10
Boston Red Sox: -5
Awesome photo: +1 through +5 points, depending on how much I like it.

Inserts:
Gold parallel: +10
Black parallel: +25
Platinum parallel: +50
Printing Plate: +30
Cards Your Mother Threw Out: +2
Cards Your Mother Threw Out Original Back: +4
Topps Legends Vintage Collection: +2
History of World Series: +2
Turkey Red: +2
Legendary Lineage: +2
Peak Performers: +2
Red Hot Rookies: +4
Topps 2020: +4
Sketch Card, Hall of Fame Buyback, or any of the other crazy hard pulls: +100
Million Card Giveaway: +5
Peak Performance Relic: +10
Peak Performance Auto: +20
Manufactured Hat relic: +20
All other relics/autos: +100
Topps Attax cards: +1
Cincinnati Reds: x10
Pittsburgh Pirates: x5
New York Yankee: /10
Boston Red Sox: /5


Pack 02 - Cobb:
391.  Manny Parra
464.  Francisco Liriano
529.  Carlos Lee
548.  Minnesota Twins (terrible photo, I should take away points.  In fact, I will.  -2)

563.  Bronson Arroyo (+10 for being a Red)

614.  Kelly Johnson
Kelly helped my fantasy baseball team out a lot in the early part of the season but he's cooled off considerably since then.
641.  Chase Headley
LL-45.  Babe Ruth & Ryan Howard (Legendary Lineage +2/10 Yankee = 0.2)
TMC-12.  Million Card Giveaway (+5)
Topps Attax:  Ryan Zimmerman (+1)

Cobb's Pack Score:  +14.2
A much better pack for Cobb.  In fact, that's enough to give him a positive overall score!
 
Pack 02 - Pedroia:
403.  Jimmy Rollins
495.  Carlos Pena
507.  Francisco Rodriguez
569.  Jacoby Ellsbury (-5 Red Sox)
628.  Ross Detwiler
629.  Oliver Perez
654.  Collin Balester
PP-61.  Hunter Pence (+2 Peak Performance)
T6.  Hunter Pence (+4 Topps 2020)

Seriously, two inserts of Hunter Pence in the same pack?  Ugh.
Topps Attax:  Joey Votto (+1 x 10 = 10 points for being a Cincinnati insert)

Pedroia's Pack Score:  +11
Much like Cobb, Pedroia is in the positive score column now too.  The race is tightening up...and the hit hasn't been found yet!
Pack 02 - Ruth:
344.  Brett Myers
346.  Taylor Teagarden
353.  Jason Heyward
394.  Luis Castillo
594.  Andy LaRoche (+5 Pirate)
607.  Ubaldo Jimenez

Jimenez has been a great pitcher for my fantasy team so he gets the scan in this pack.
TR95.  Ty Cobb
CMT69.  Roger Maris (+2)
Topps Attax:  Ian Kinsler (+1)

Ruth's Pack Score:  +8
Heading into Maris' second pack, Ruth has a firm hold on second place.  Barring a terrible pack from Maris, Ruth won't be able to catch up until round three (at the earliest).  Only one way to find out though!

Pack 02 - Mantle
386.  Dan Haren
400.  Alex Rodriguez (-10 Yankee)
459.  Joel Zumaya
497.  Edgar Renteria
535.  Andy Sonnanstine
608.  Pittsburgh Pirates (+5)
638.  Paul Konerko
VLC24.  Pee Wee Reese (Vintage Legends +2)
Red Hot Rookie #7 (+4)

642.  San Diego Padres (Gold Parallel +10)

Topps Attax:  Alex Rodriguez (+1 / 10 = +0.1)


Mantle's Pack Score:  +11.1
Wow, another good showing by Mantle.  If I didn't penalize Yankees so heavily (or if I had realized what the Red Hot Rookie card seedings were) this pack score would have been much, much higher!  Even so, it's a good showing and Mantle will retain his lead going into pack three.

Leaderboard (after 2 packs - # of packs won in parenthesis):

Mantle: +40.1    (1 win)
Ruth: +21
Pedroia: +10
Cobb: +1.2  (1 win)