leave no trayce

i have been waiting over a year to post this post! here's a 2017 topps stadium club gold foil parallel of trayce thompson

that followed a somewhat breakout sort of season for the dodgers in 2016, and here is his card from 2022 topps

showing him with the cubs, for whom he played in 2021.

thompson rejoined the dodgers in june of 2022, but i had to wait until now to find a card that documented his return. here's his 2023 topps dodgers factory team set card

that shows him back in dodger blue.  yes, trayce thompson is a dodger double dipper!

here's the back of the card:

i like that it addresses the fact that this is thompson's second stint with the dodgers. he is also a white sox double dipper!

the back also notes that thompson has changed organizations 10 times. let's see if i have it all covered:

he was drafted by the white sox and played for them in 2015. the dodgers (that's one change) traded for him in the frankie montas deal, and he stayed in la through the 2017 season. the yankees (that's two) picked him up off of waivers at the start of the 2018 season, and two days later, the a's (that's three) claimed him from new york. he did not ever appear in a game for the yankees. two weeks after the a's picked him up, they traded him to the white sox (that's four) where he spent the rest of the 2018 season before becoming a free agent. once on the open market, cleveland (that's five) signed him. he didn't make it to the big leagues with them, and they released him late in the 2019 season. he was then signed by the diamondbacks (that's six) in february of 2020. he did not appear in the bigs with them, but had his contract purchased by the cubs (that's seven) in may of 2021. the padres (that's eight) signed him as a free agent in march of 2022, and then the tigers (that's nine) did the same two months later. after three weeks or so with the tiger organization, the dodgers (that's ten) purchased his contract and he wound up being a key contributor for the remainder of the season. so far in 2023, not so much.  

by my count, the dodgers hadn't had a double dipper since alex wood in 2020. i don't consider thompson's 2022 teammate andrew heaney to have been a dodger double dipper because he never played for the dodgers during his 3-day stint on the roster in december of 2014. however, thompson isn't the only dodger dipper on the 2023 roster - miguel rojas played for the dodgers in 2014 before being sent to miami in that same trade that netted the dodgers heaney. he's back this year, but i don't think there were any cards issued of him during his first stint in los angeles. he is featured in series 2, however, so i should be able to finally get a card of him in dodger blue.