Spirit Base: 321 - 330

#321 - Cody Asche
That's a long E at the end there.

#322 - Edinson Volquez
That's some intense pitchface.

#323 - Adam Wainwright
2014 Cy Young candidate?

#324 - Yonder Alsonso
I wonder if Dick Enberg has ever been able to make a "way over Yonder" call on a line drive to right field?
 

#325 - Jake Dunning - I'm sure nobody outside of the Giants fanbase has heard of Dunning. He pitched enough in 2013 I figured he deserved at least one MLB card, even if it's a fake one.

#326 - Nick Franklin
I can't help but think the Mariner's could've gotten a bigger return for Franklin than Austin Jackson if they would've traded him directly after signing Cano. Oh well, they seem to be doing just fine.

#327 - David Price
Speaking of said trade, I figured since Price will be getting another card with the Tigers in Series 3 (ha), I could use this WTF-photo here.

#328 - Mitch Moreland
Like a lot of Rangers, Moreland didn't make it out of 2014 unscathed. He only got 52 games in before season-ending surgery.

#329 - Esmil Rogers
Rogers pitched less than impressively for 16 games before the Blue Jays waived him. The Yankees picked him up and have squeezed some Yankee Magic out of him.

#330 - Ryan Zimmerman
Poor Zim can't stay healthy these days.

2014 Spirit Award Winners

After hitting the halfway mark of the base set project, let's take a break and check in with some Series 1 inserts. For the third year in a row, the inaugural insert design is the Award Winners set. This year brings some familiar motifs along with some changes. We're still alternating between gold and silver foil for the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove winners, though I decided to subdue the blinginess a bit. Now there are just a few strips of foil instead of a huge shiny background.

The NL cards feature red again and the AL guys are blue. With this system, you can easily distinguish which award each player won just by glancing at the foil color and background. Just to be safe, I added another visual cue with the Gold Glovers having a leather background and the Sluggers a wooden bat. And to make things even more clear cut, the NL and AL logos are screened on upper fabric swatch thing.

The back of the card has the same elements from the front repeated, other than the foil of course. They actually look pretty similar to the 2012 ones I did, though the overall composition fits this design better.