Team Sets Galore

Still no baseball outside of Taiwan but that's not stopping BBM and Epoch.  Both companies each have announced four new team sets in past few weeks.

- The team sets from BBM are the annual "comprehensive" team sets for the Carp, Giants, Lions and Fighters.  The base sets for all 4 sets will contain 81 cards each which will break down to 68 or 69 cards for the manager and all the players on the 70 man roster (which obviously isn't 70 players) and several subsets that will account for the other 12-13 cards.  Each set has a bunch of insert cards with the Lions having "only" 36 insert cards, the Carp and the Fighters having 51 total and the Giants having a whopping 57 inserts.  18 of the inserts for each team are the serially numbered "Phantom" cards while 15 of them for the Carp and Fighters are the serially numbered "Esperanza" cards.  There are autographed cards available with the Carp, Lions and Fighters sets, memorabilia cards available with the Carp, Giants and Fighters sets and "Giants Pride Photo Cards" available with the Giants sets.  The Carp set will be released in early May (Card Fanatic says May 2nd), the Giants and Lions sets in late May (May 20th and 27th respectively) and the Fighters set in early June (June 3rd).

- The Epoch team sets are the latest of their "Rookies & Stars" sets - these are for the Carp, the Fighters, the Hawks and the Buffaloes.  Each set has a base set of 36 cards which are all player cards (the Fighters and Hawks sets include a card for the team's manager) and there's a parallel version of each base set card.  The sets all appear to have the same insert sets - "Uniform Number" (Silver, Gold or Team Color versions), "Metal Power" (Silver, Gold, Hologram), "Time To Shine Hologram" (versions A, B and C) and "Gem" (regular and Black) - I think the "Gem" cards are serially numbered.  All the sets have a plethora of autograph cards available and there are memorabilia cards available with the Hawks and Carp sets.  All four sets will be released in June - the Carp and Fighters sets are out on the 13th, the Hawks set is out on the 20th and the Buffaloes set comes out on the 27th.

- Dan Skrezyna is (or at least was) taking pre-orders for his latest Vittum "Foreign Attack" card set.  This one features the 36 foreign players in the KBO in 2018.  The sets are $15 including shipping and I think contain 37 cards - 36 player cards and one checklist.  If you're interested in one, contact Dan either at his blog or on Twitter.  I'm not sure when he expects the cards to actually be published.