Pair of Brewers relievers just took part in baseball card opening for the ages

Eric Cole

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With the Milwaukee Brewers putting together a season for the ages, fan enthusiasm around the team is at all-time highs. While that has already resulted in tangible benefits in terms of ticket sales for the Brewers, there has been another side effect that many fans may not be aware of in the sports card collecting hobby.

There have certainly been Brewers players that have been players that have been popular among collectors before. Jackson Chourio's rookie cards were in high demand just last season. However, between Jesus Made getting his Bowman 1st card this year combined with all of the success Milwaukee is having on the field, card collecting is hot among Brewers fans right now.

If you are one of those fans who also happens to have a lot of spare cash laying around that you aren't spending on playoff tickets, you will want to check out this brand new collaboration between the card grading company PSA and MLB Players, Inc. to create a special card auction called the Players Collection that will begin on September 30.

Jared Koenig and Trevor Megill took part in ground-breaking Players Collection that might change card collecting forever

The way the Players Collection works is pretty simple. A bunch of MLB players around the league were invited to open some really high end products including Topps Definitive, Topps Luminaries, and Topps Diamond Icons on video. From those pulls, 60 cards were selected to be graded and put in the auction. Select cards will have a link to a unique video of the card being pulled as well as any reactions/comments as well.

The Brewers had two representatives among those cracking packs, relievers Jared Koenig and Trevor Megill, and they worked together in the above trailer with hilarious results. Clearly both players are card collectors and knew as soon as they opened a 1/1 Masataka Yoshida patch auto that they had hit a really rare (and very cool) card.

The card collecting hobby is already very driven by chasing specific players and/or cards and what this new auction does is add a new and very novel element. Not only will fans be bidding on some big time cards, but they will have certification that they were opened by such players as Corbin Carroll, Bobby Witt Jr., Justin Turner, Zach Neto, and others. If you want to try your hand at bidding on some of the cards that Koenig and Megill opened, including that Yoshida 1/1, make sure you check out the auction at the end of the month.

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Eric Cole

I started my career writing about baseball covering the Atlanta Braves for SB Nation's Talking Chop back in 2015 which has since been renamed Battery Power. After years of writing for those fine folks, I made the decision to take over as Site Expert at House That Hank Built before becoming a full-time MLB Staff Writer for FanSided in 2023. Along the way, I have been a guest on multiple ESPN radio affiliates as well as 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game to discuss Braves baseball and especially Braves prospects and was a long-time host on the Battery Power podcast. These days, I continue to write about the Braves as well as covering the Astros, Padres, and Angels with particular expertise with minor league coverage, the MLB Draft, and bashing Anthony Rendon when possible. When I am not writing about or talking about baseball (which is seldom), I am an avid baseball card collector (Maddux and Soroka being my primary personal collections) and I also collect shark teeth. All other sports are mostly dead to me as my Bills have broken my heart too many times.