2020 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes Japanese Collegiate All Stars

Panini issued their latest USA Baseball set called "Stars & Stripes" about a month ago and for the second year in a row the set includes autograph/memorabilia cards for last year's Collegiate Samurai Japan team.  This is the squad that played against the USA Baseball team in the 43rd USA vs Japan Collegiate All Star Series played last summer in Japan (Japan won 3 games to 2).

This is the third time Panini has done cards for the Japanese College All Stars (2019 and 2013 were their previous ones) and the fourth time a US company has done them (Upper Deck in 2008).

Here's the list of players in the set and their respective colleges.  Five of the players were in last year's set (Hiromi Ito, Ryosuke Kodama, Masato Morishita, Toshiya Sato and Takashi Umino) and seven of them were taken in last fall's NPB draft.

Name	Position	College	School Year	Year Drafted	Team	Round	DOB
Yudai Furukawa	Catcher	Jobu	3	N/A			6/19/1998
Yuya Gunji	Catcher	Keio	4	2019	Dragons	4	12/27/1997
Takahisa Hayakawa	Pitcher	Waseda	3	N/A			7/6/1998
Hiromi Ito	Pitcher	Tomakomai Komazawa	3	N/A			8/31/1997
Ryosuke Kodama	Infielder	Kyushu Sangyo	3	N/A			7/10/1998
Shugo Maki	Infielder	Chuo	3	N/A			4/21/1998
Kazuya Maruyama	Outfielder	Meiji	2	N/A			7/18/1999
Masato Morishita	Pitcher	Meiji	4	2019	Carp	1	8/25/1997
Shota Morishita	Outfielder	Chuo	1	N/A			8/14/2000
Hiyu Motoyama	Infielder	Tohoku Fukushi	3	N/A			12/4/1998
Shoki Murakami	Pitcher	Toyo	3	N/A			6/25/1998
Ryusei Ogawa	Infielder	Kokugakuin	3	N/A			4/5/1998
Shunsuke Sato	Pitcher	Tsukuba	2	N/A			1/3/2000
Toshiya Sato	Catcher	Toyo	4	2019	Marines	2	1/27/1998
Ryo Shinohara	Infielder	Tsukuba	4	N/A			5/5/1997
Riku Takemura	Outfielder	Kinki	4	N/A			8/21/1997
Mikiya Tanaka	Infielder	Asia	1	N/A			11/28/2000
Takuma Uchima	Pitcher	Asia	3	N/A			11/21/1998
Koki Ugusa	Outfielder	Hosei	4	2019	Carp	2	4/17/1997
Takashi Umino	Catcher	Tokai	4	2019	Hawks	2	7/15/1997
Iori Yamasaki	Pitcher	Tokai	3	N/A			10/10/1998
Tatsuru Yanagimachi	Infielder	Keio	4	2019	Hawks	5	4/20/1997
Ryuji Yasumoto	Infielder	Hosei	4	N/A			5/28/1997
Daiki Yoshida	Pitcher	Nittai	4	2019	Swallows	2	7/27/97

There are 11 different varieties of these cards - Silhouettes Signatures Jerseys Prime (#'d to between 17 and 19), Buttons Signatures (#'d to 7),  Signatures (#'d to 5), Signatures PE (#'d to 5),  Silhouettes Sig Jerseys PE (#'d to 5),  Silhouettes Signatures Jerseys (#'d to 5), Laundry Tag Signatures (#'d to 2), Prime Signatures (#'d to 2), Silhouettes Signatures Jerseys Samurai Japan (#'d to 2), Silhouettes Signatures Jerseys Brand Logo Asics (1 of 1) and Signatures Jerseys GungHo (1 of 1).  

The two cards I have so far are both of the Silhouettes Signatures Jerseys Prime variety - the Shota Morishita card at the top of this post and this card of Kazuya Maruyama:

I'm kind of hoping that like last year there will be non-autograph/memorabilia cards available for the Samurai Japan team available in the "rack packs" of the set although it doesn't look like those are happening this year.