Messed Up Biscuit

Last summer the Cardinals traded Tommy Pham to the Rays in exchange for one of my favorite Durham Bulls players Justin Williams, along with Double A pitcher Genesis Cabrera, and another Minor Leaguer.  We aren't going to worry too much about Roel Ramirez.  Pham has played well for the Rays over the last few months.  Currently, he is in the middle of a long consecutive games on base streak. 

Meanwhile, Justin Williams is not playing because he lost a fight with a television set during the off-season.  I still liked him from his time in Durham. 

I honestly think that Justin Williams is also the last Cardinals player on the 40 man roster.  There are tons of outfielders on the team, and he is the worst of them.  Even worse than Dexter Fowler for the moment.  We'll see how much longer he's a Cardinal. 

Which means there is a lot riding on Genesis Cabrera to do something.  Cardinals fans are relying on him to make everything alright.  I picked up a few of his cards last fall.  Probably my best was his Topps Heritage Minor League card, which featured him as a Double A player with the Montgomery Biscuits. 

Genesis has a deckle edged card, along with a few other different variations.  You know the routine.  

I did skip over his Donruss/Panini stuff last fall.  It was more expensive, and it's Panini.  Sometimes all of the airbrushing really bothers me.  Not to be snobby, but I like seeing the full uniforms and logos.  All of it.  

The price fell enough that I finally went out and got a copy of his Donruss Extra Elite card.  The autographed version.  It did not look great on Ebay, but he's a Cardinal right?  

It's pretty bad.  

First off, this is really a card of Genesis on the Biscuits.  They have a pretty easy to like Minor League uniform, yet here we are with this card.  I know, Panini can't do logos.  

The sticker autograph is also not very well done.  It's obviously a sticker, not blended in very well with the card.  Feel a little buyers remorse.  

Back of the card.  

We've got a description of his pitches, a good outing, and the details of him being traded to the Cardinals.  This is going to send a little weird, but the red coloring on the back of the card bothers me more than anything else.  The front of the card is purple, but the back is red?

Is it because he is a Cardinal, or are all the backs of the cards colored red?  The only other cards I have from this product are either of USA Baseball players, or Cardinals.  Not really sure.  It would have been nice to match up the coloring a little better.  Maybe just make it a card where everything ends up with the Biscuits coloring.  Pretty messed up.