Cards From The Attic: Top Prospects

It's a 1992 Topps quad prospects card, a throwback to the old multi-rookie cards from the 1970s. A few of these prospects panned out. Prospects like these four didn't.

Bernhardt's inclusion in as a "top prospect" in 1992 seems curious. While still relatively young, Bernhardt was in his seventh professional season. The previous year in 1991, he played 87 games at AAA Vancouver. He hit .260 with a single home run, not exactly top prospect material.
And Vancouver would be the highest Bernhardt would get. In 1992, when his Topps card came out, he spent the season between three systems, and no higher than AA.
Taking a closer look at this quad-prospect, it turns out three of the four players were in the CMC set. Both of the other two CMC set players, Armando Moreno and Andy Stankiewicz, were already at AAA two years before the card came out.



He also didn't make the majors. He played through 1995, playing his last four seasons largely at AAA.