The biggest surprise is how bad the Orioles are this year, especially offensively. Their brain trust is going with the Twins strategy of the mid 2000's: do nothing to surround their good, young talent with free agents or through trades.
Well the strikeout numbers are really high but everything has been really good. He's about the only exciting thing about this team (other than maybe Pablo and Duran). Healthy Buck is fun to watch.
I like the baseball card you picked out. That's his true first big league card. He was not expected to be a big part of the 1984 team so was not part of the main card sets that year. But Fleer included Puckett in the 84 updated series. Topps Traded did not because they only included traded...