I finished the Traded set from 2001 last year as well!
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Info about my set:
How I put the set together:
- 178 cards from the Topps Traded Hobby box
- 30 cards from trades
- 44 cards from Beckett Marketplace
- 1 card from eBay
- 7 card from Sportlots
- 5 cards from COMC
Card that completed my set: #T1113 – Rickey Henderson TTY

I got this from my COMC Black Friday purchase last year.
Set composition: 265 cards (98 single MLB player cards, 1 RotY Candidates, 45 Topps Through the Years, 6 Managers, 60 Prospects, 55 1st Year Cards)
Representation of ’00 MLB season: Around now – doing this for the traded set kind of passes the point of relevance. The “Traded” guys now represent players who signed with new teams in the offseason between 2000 and 2001. For example – the first card is Sandy Alomar Jr. with the White Sox. Alomar played with Cleveland in 2000, then signed with the ChiSox for the 2001 season.
But – I did check on the data here, so…
The 645 players from the flagship 2001 set who played in 2000 represented 52.4% out of the 1,230 players who played in MLB in 2000. There were 35 guys who played in 2000 who were in the Traded set that didn’t make it into the regular set (though only about 10 of this new 35 were there repping the team they played for in 2000). So in total between the two sets, you have 680 of the 1,230 representing 55.3% of the 1,230 MLB players of 2000.
Last active player from this set: #T247 – Albert Pujols

If I had finished this set just a touch earlier – there would have still been an active player in this set! Pujols played his last regular season game on October 4, 2022 – which was the Cardinals penultimate game of the season. They had wrapped up the division earlier that week and had no chance to move off of the 3-seed, so he didn’t play the final game. Pujols grounded out in his first at bat, then singled (hit #3,384) in the 3rd inning to knock in the 2,217th and 2,218th run of his career.
He played both games of the Wild Card Series that was swept by the Phillies, going 2-8 with 2 singles. His last MLB game was October 8th – he was the Cardinals DH and singled in the 8th inning of a 2-0 loss and was pulled for pinch-runner Ben DeLuzio.
The earliest player in this set excluding the Through the Years subset is Rickey Henderson. So the player years from this set span from 1979 to 2022 – 6 different decades. If you include the managers subset, Buck Martinez played his first MLB game in 1969 and that adds a 7th decade. If you include the Through the Years subset, Juan Marichal has a Traded reprint and his MLB debut was 1960.

A.J. Hinch is in this set and is still managing. So the longest you could stretch this set out for MLB involvement is 1960-current!
Highest book value: #T247 – Albert Pujols
Most notable card: #T247 – Albert Pujols
Best card (my opinion): #T247 – Albert Pujols

This is a true RC for Pujols, and you can’t get it for cheap. Kind of hard to put anything else ahead of this for most notable or best card – even if you don’t love Pujols, he is baseball history!
Second best card (also my opinion): #T77 – Rickey Henderson

This is the card from the famous Rickey-ism when he supposedly called Padres GM Kevin Towers to say “This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.” Henderson has said that never really did that – but either way it’s a pretty cool photo from Spring Training of his second stint with San Diego.
Henderson scored his 2,246th run on October 3rd of that year to break Ty Cobb’s record and also notched his 3,000th hit on the last game of the season against the Rockies. Funny story for that game – Henderson led off that game and got a double for the 3K milestone hit. After he came around and scored, he was pulled for a defensive replacement. Tony Gwynn didn’t start, but did come in as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 9th for what was his final MLB plate appearance. So the Padres started the game with 1 guy with 3,000 hits who was on the bench. Then they had a starter get his 3,000th hit. The bench guy played, but they never had the 2 guys playing at the same time.
Best subset card: #T102 – Juan Marichal TTY

The Topps Through the Years reprints was really cool to do in the Traded set, and the old school update cards that were actually part of the 1974 set are particularly great. Lou Piniella was the other one of these that Topps included in this set. It’s better to me than the Pujols / Ichiro card they tried to squeeze in here at card #99.
Favorite action photo: #T28 – Reggie Sanders

Traded/Update sets aren’t particularly known for their action shots. This is a good one for a guy who made a real impact for the eventual champion.
Favorite non-action photo: #T95 – Rob Bell

Neat pose with Yankee Stadium fencing so clear in the background.
My Favorite Reds card: #T98 – Adam Dunn

Dunn’s card is a slam dunk, it’s a really nice picture and it’s cool that it’s one of the early Topps cards from a guy who hit 270 homers for the Reds and over 450 in his MLB career.