As usual the bulk of that big package I got from Ryan recently consisted of the twelve "comprehensive" team sets from BBM for last year and as usual it's taken me about a month to get them all inputted into my database. Now what I mean by a "comprehensive" team set is one that has all the players on the team's 70 man roster at the time it was printed (which is usually less than 70 players). The team sets were all released between April and July of last year.
Each set had a base set of 81 cards which included 63 to 70 "regular" cards featuring the players on the 70 man roster plus the team's manager. Each set also had a single card dedicated to its mascot or mascots and then the remainder of the set was made up of three or four subsets containing two to six cards. Some of the mascot cards double as a checklist for the set. Here's the break down for each set:
| Team |
Player/Manager Cards |
Mascot Cards |
Subsets |
| Chiba Lotte Marines |
68 |
1 |
Newcomer (2), Young & Fine (2), Title Holder (5), Uniform Number Geneology (3) |
| Chunichi Dragons |
66 |
1 |
Heart & Soul (3), Flame Ball (4), Power Plant (3), Veolcity (4) |
| Fukuoka Softbank Hawks |
65 |
1 |
Newcomer (2), Shutout (4), Get Over (4), Charge! (5) |
| Hanshin Tigers |
69 |
1 |
First Pick (3), Smart & Smooth (3), No Mercy (5) |
| Hiroshima Toyo Carp |
67 |
1 |
Newcomer (4), Bring It On (5), Awesome Guys (4) |
| Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters |
68 |
1 |
Tough Enough (3), Blast Off (3), Homegrown (3), High Intensity (3) |
| Orix Buffaloes |
63 |
1 |
2020 Orix Buffaloes Topiocs (4), Brilliant Achievement 2021 (4), Golden Age (6), Pedigree (3) |
| Saitama Seibu Lions |
64 |
1 |
Young Lion (6), Bring Change (5), Nice (5) |
| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles |
70 |
1 |
Big Bolt (3), Stand Out (3), Fresh Breeze (4) |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows |
66 |
1 |
Milestone (2), New Phase (5), Check it Out (7) |
| Yokohama DeNA Baystars |
67 |
1 |
Revival (3), Uplift (3), Future Is Here (4), Expertise (3) |
| Yomiuri Giants |
67 |
1 |
Great Comeback (3), Generations (3), Get The Chance (3), Supreme Diamond (4) |
Each team set includes 30 to 35 players who do not appear in BBM's 2022 "flagship" sets (1st & 2nd Versions and Fusion). As usual these include an interesting mix of Westerners (Carter Stewart, Robert Cornier, Geronimo Franzua, Bryan Rodriguez, Cesar Vargas, Alan Busenitz, Cy Sneed, Michael Peoples and Rubby De La Rosa) and somewhat big name veterans (Seiya Inoue, Shota Ohno, Seiji Uebayashi, Wei-Yin Chen, Chihiro Kaneko, Tomotaka Sakaguchi, Seiichi Uchikawa and Seiji Kobayashi). There's are five Westerners who have their first ever (and possibly only) NPB card in these sets - Kyle Keller, John Gant, Rangel Ravel, Chris Gittens and Matt Andriese.
Here's a card of a player from each set who was not in any of BBM's flagship sets:
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| 2022 BBM Marines #M52 |
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| 2022 BBM Dragons #D22 |
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| 2022 BBM Hawks #H03 |
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| 2022 BBM Tigers #T08 |
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| 2022 BBM Carp #C46 |
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| 2022 BBM Fighters #F42 |
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| 2022 BBM Buffaloes #B03 |
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| 2022 BBM Lions #L50 |
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| 2022 BBM Eagles #E63 |
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| 2022 BBM Swallows #S27 |
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| 2022 BBM Baystars #DB50 |
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| 2022 BBM Giants #G03 |
2 comments:
The last few years, BBM has included an insert in the yearly Giants set called "TRIPLEX". Is that supposed to be read as a single word, like duplex, or is it supposed to be like Triple X? I only ask now because the 2023 Giants set has been announced, and one of the sample images is a TRIPLEX card, but it is written as Triplex. I haven't found an image of the card backs, so I'm not sure what the title is referencing with the player selection.
Nevermind. The cards are consistent with the lowercase, or at least smaller, X, so I've opted for Triplex, since the insert sets are always just 3 cards. Didn't realize the those sets went all the way back to 2016. Time flies.
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