2022 Topps Baseball Forum

The back of Charlie Morton's card #82 has the "League Leader in Italics, Tie*" line above the stats, but he was not a League Leader in anything. Should this be listed as a UER?  Also, Charlie Morton had 14 wins in 2021.  He is not listed on the back of the AL Wins League Leader Card #270 where 14 wins should've put him on this list. Lastly, Card #270 says AVG, not Wins.  I'd just like a 2nd opinion before I list both of these cards as UER.

Thanks!

He did tie the leaders for Games Started in the NL with 33 last year. His 14 wins did earn him a spot on the back of the NL Wins card.

Morton didn't play in the AL in 2021, so that is why he isn't on card 270. For the tie, not sure. He led the league in games started in 2021 with 33, so maybe that is it. 

Morton was T-5 in the NL in 2021.

Morton led the leagues he was in with a couple various stats, but none that are listed on this card. Technically, this note can be added to any card. Whether any of the stats or not have the italics or a diamond is another story. They didn't mismark something as being a leader when it wasn't or not mark something that was when it shouldn't be. Technically, no error on this card.

Both the NL Wins and AL Wins cards have "AVG" over the Wins column. This is incorrect and should be labeled as such.

He tied for games started then there should be a red diamond next to the stat. But there's no GS stat.

SunDevilCollection wrote:

He did tie the leaders for Games Started in the NL with 33 last year. His 14 wins did earn him a spot on the back of the NL Wins card.

Yup, I'll admit I'm a moron.  I'm still thinking about Charlie Morton as an Astro and I was thinking he was supposed to be on the AL League Leader card and he's actually on the NL League Leader card because, well the Braves are in the NL!  Dummy me.

Anyways, I see it is probably not an error on his card even though he did not lead (or tie) the league in any of the categories listed on the back of his card, but rather the line is unnecessary.  Topps typically only adds that line for those that actually did lead or tie their respective league in a statistical category listed on the back of the card.

However, it appears that ALL of the league leader cards in 2022 Topps Series 1 have 'AVG' on the back of the card instead of the category for which they are listed (Wins, ERA, HR, RBI, Strikeouts) and it would appear that 10 of the 12 cards should be listed as UER.

If these UER notes are added to the base set League Leaders cards, they need to be added to each of the 16 parallel cards as well.  Advanced stats and Clear parallels don't have LL cards and the printing plates don't have info on the back.

mr. morton is a waste basket.