Please help ID Baseball Player autographed Photo #15

I bought a storage about 6 months ago and there were many boxes of sport cards,a few photos.This one is Marlin #15.I know nothing about sports.Anybody know this name on picture.I can't make it out.

 

Uniform Number 15
Every Player Who Wore #15

Count Players Who Wore #15 Pic Full Roster
1. Cliff Floyd 1997 Florida Marlins
2. Cliff Floyd 1998 Florida Marlins
3. Cliff Floyd 1999 Florida Marlins
4. Kevin Millar 2000 Florida Marlins
5. Kevin Millar 2001 Florida Marlins
6. Kevin Millar 2002 Florida Marlins
7. Paul Hoover 2006 Florida Marlins
8. Gaby Sanchez 2011 Florida Marlins
9. Gaby Sanchez 2012 Miami Marlins
10. Rafael Furcal 2014 Miami Marlins
11. Dan Haren 2015 Miami Marlins
12. Oswaldo Arcia 2016 Miami Marlins
13. Brian Anderson 2018 Miami Marlins
14. Brian Anderson 2019 Miami Marlins
15. Brian Anderson 2020 Miami Marlins

 

Thanks,but still can't make the name out,at 71 you have to really look,match,I'll try to match. Again thanks

 

The picture is not from an MLB game. The fence in the background with the cars parked tells us that. Player could be from the minor league or farm team. Trying to figure out from the picture what base he is covering. Looks like it could be the pitchers mound with a baseline in the background.

 

The uniform that he is wearing is the OLD uniform. nothing like the new ones.
Then I took a crack at the picture being signed to JIMI. Found a relief pitcher named YIMI Garcia. Who was signed this year.....not a far stretch from YIMI to JIMI.
Then I looked at pictures of Brian Anderson. It MIGHT be the same guy, but the signature doesn't look like it to me. Brian Anderson is also a pitcher. But that's as far as I got.

 

hah...I thought it was 1st base..BUT THAT'S A PIECE Of TAPE !!!

The way he's standing ...ist or 2nd base , i'd think...
& that could be spring training..

 

Looks like there is a fowl line in the picture? Based on the configuration of the infield I'd think first base. Maybe a Spring Training game which would make determining the player much more challenging due to large amount of non-roster invitees that get play in limited action each year.

 

Nothing on the back? What's under the tape?

 

The signature looks like R Wood, but I couldn't find a link of that name to the team. There is this Robert Wood who was a pitcher, but I found a photo of that player and it doesn't look like him.

 

I think the building in the background is Viera High School. It opened in 2006.


The Marlins trained at the Space Coast Stadium in Viera from 1994 to 2002.

The only Viera High School student I can find who went pro in baseball is David McKay but he hasn't played for the Marlins, and went pro in 2019.

I'm thinking this is a High School player in an old Marlins outfit. Maybe he was #15 on the high school team? (BTW - the Viera HS team is the Hawks)

 

INH, thanks for tagging us, and apologies for the delay in replying. Last night, we posted the pic and sig to Net54, internet home to the world's most knowledgeable collectors of baseball memorabilia. Over 120 views by the time we post this, and zero guesses as to who the fellow is -- make of that what you will.

Smallaxe and Komokwa researched the best baseball data sources available. Bdigger is also correct that it's not a pic from an MLB game. It could be from spring training for the Marlins, or one of their farm teams, but that's doubtful given the difficulty everyone's had in ID'ing the guy. More likely the picture was taken at a junior / community college, high school, or muny league game (or practise), and the guy is just wearing a personal favourite MLB-replica jersey and cap.

He is clearly positioned at 1st base, as determined by the foul line running lower left to right. It's hard to say if he's wearing a 1st-baseman's mitt, though. But it seems likely, since we can obviously see he's a left-hander. We think the dedication in the auto is to "Jim," followed by a colon, not "Jimi." His own sig, simple as it appears at first, is tricky. "R Weed"? "TE Wood"?

We'll post again if we get any feedback at all on Net54, but we doubt this guy ever played pro ball at any level.

 

Update (woulda been a lot sooner, but the Antiquers server was down almost all of last night): perhaps (perhaps) we were too cynical -- a couple of the knowledgeable fellows over at Net54 have come up with a possible (possible) identification. Check out these links (suspect's playing record, followed by potential contact info, if you're all that interested in following up on it for confirmation):
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=word--001rob
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertword
Also, a pic of the alleged candidate for facial comparison:

 

That looks like a match.

 

I think that's it! I hope that @antiquelover69 comes back to this thread soon!

 

Wow! just checking back and saw this post.Thanks so much to all of you! tell the wonderful people at net54 my thanks so much!!!!!