For those of you, like me, who haven’t seen a new baseball card since you bought that $5.00 pack of 1994 Fleer Flair, you might be interested in this post on the Yahoo! baseball blog, in which the author thumbs through a pack of 2009 Topps. I especially liked the Jerome Walton reference.

The cards are pretty hideous, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that WHIP is included as a stat category on the backs of the cards! I don’t know how long this has been going on, but I think it’s pretty obvious that nerds have infiltrated the upper management of Topps. What’s next, Donruss replacing “Rated Rookies” with “VORP Rookie All Stars?”