Just One Card - 2000s Phillies Edition (Part One - 2000 to 2004)

2000 Phillies Team Issue #44

2000 Phillies Team Issue #46

2001 Phillies Team Issue #55

Having tackled the Phillies players of the 1980s and 1990s to have never before appeared on a Phillies baseball card, I'm now going to turn my attention to the decade of the 2000s.  I started the Chachi custom baseball card sets in 2005, so the players from 2005 onwards have already appeared (at least in virtual form) on a Phillies baseball card.  But I'll still pay tribute to those players with an official Missing Links card.

By my tally, and I'll readily admit up front that I could be wrong, there were 34 players who suited up for the Phillies between 2000 and 2009 who never appeared on a Phillies baseball card.  But before we get to those 34 players, here are the players who just missed the cut having appeared on exactly one baseball card as a member of the Phillies.  (This is part one, and part two will appear in a future post.)

2000
Scott Aldred - 2000 Phillies Team Issue #30 (See here)
Clemente Alvarez - 2001 Phillies Team Issue #55*
Thomas Jacquez - 2000 Pacific Omega #253 (with Vicente Padilla)
Trever Miller - 2000 Phillies Team Issue #46
Carlos Reyes - 2000 Phillies Team Issue #44
Steve Schrenk - 2000 Phillies Team Issue #52 (See here)
Ed Vosberg - 2001 Phillies Team Issue #50

2001 Phillies Team Issue #50

2001 Phillies Team Issue Update #52

2001 Phillies Team Issue #12

2001 Phillies Team Issue #54

2004 Phillies Team Issue Special Edition #58

2001
Felipe Crespo - 2001 Phillies Team Issue Update #52
Brian L. Hunter - 2001 Phillies Team Issue #12^
Eddie Oropesa - 2001 Phillies Team Issue #54

2002
Mike Timlin - 2002 Topps Traded #T31

2004
Lou Collier - 2004 Phillies Team Issue Special Edition #58
Jim Crowell - 2004 Topps Traded #T113
Felix Rodriguez - 2004 Upper Deck #563

2000 Pacific Omega #253

2002 Topps Traded #T31

2004 Topps Traded #T113

2004 Upper Deck #563

*Alvarez appears as the bullpen catcher on this card, but it's close enough for me so I'll count it for this exercise.
^Topps tried to give Brian L. Hunter a card in the 2001 Topps Traded set, but they used a photo of Brian R. Hunter instead so I'm not counting it.  I wrote about this confusion in this post.

Given that Crespo and Collier only appear on hard-to-find team issued photo cards, I'd consider these two of my personal collecting white whales.  Thanks goes out to fellow Phillies collector Rick for sending me scans of these rare cards.

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2004 Upper Deck Update #563 Felix Rodriguez

5 days away . . . The Phillies Room counts down to the Trade Deadline

July 30, 2004: Felix Rodriguez acquired from the San Francisco Giants for Ricky Ledee and Alfredo Simon

July 31, 2004: Todd Jones and Brian Correll acquired from the Cincinnati Reds for Josh Hancock and Anderson Machado

Sadly, Todd Jones does not have a Phillies card. (In 2004, I was still a year away from the inaugural Chachi set). Even more sadly, the Phillies would fail to make the Postseason yet again, despite bolstering their bullpen at the trade deadline. Both pitchers acquired pitched well enough, but the Phils finished the season 10 games behind the Braves in the NL East and 6 games behind the Astros in the Wild Card race.

Todd Jones left the team after the season via free agency, signing with the Florida Marlins. He'd play four more seasons in the Majors, saving 133 games for the Marlins and the Tigers.

F-Rod (yes, F-Rod), was traded to the Yankees in December 2004 for Kenny Lofton. He'd play for the Yankees in 2005 and the Nationals in 2006 before calling it a career.