Sunday, March 5, 2023

Samurai Japan 2023 World Baseball Classic Roster

With the World Baseball Classic kicking off in a couple of days, I wanted to do a somewhat quick post showing baseball cards of all the players on the Samurai Japan roster.  Well, ALMOST all the players - since I don't have any MLB cards I don't have any cards of Lars Nootbaar.  My goal was to show all the players bedecked in National team garb but there were four players who I didn't have Samurai Japan cards for.  There were a couple of sets - the 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan set and the 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan team set - that came in very handy for this exercise.

Yu Darvish - 2009 Konami Baseball Heroes WBC "Special" #W09S001

Sosuke Genda - 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #18

Shota Imanaga - 2019 Calbee Samurai Japan "Special Box Set" #M-2

Hiromi Itoh - 2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes "Rack Pack" Japanese Collegiate All-Stars #8

Takuya Kai - 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #16

Kensuke Kondoh - 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-08

Ryoji Kuribayashi - 2021 BBM Legendary Rookies #LR87

Shugo Maki - 2020 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes Japanese Collegiate All Stars Silhouettes

Taisei Makihara - 2020 Calbee #083

Yuki Matsui - 2017 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-01

Hiroya Miyagi - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-5

Munetaka Murakami - 2019 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-33

Yuhei Nakamura - 2016 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-20

Takumu Nakano - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-21

Takumi Ohshiro - 2020 BBM Giants #GP5

Shohei Ohtani - 2017 Bowman Chrome Prospects #BCP31

Takuma Okamoto - 2019 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-27

Taisei Ota - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-4

Roki Sasaki - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan #013

Ukyo Shuto - 2022 Calbee Samurai Japan #25

Hiroto Takahashi - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-3

Keiji Takahashi - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-12

Shosei Togo - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan #011

Yuki Udagawa - 2021 BBM Rookie Edition #058

Tetsuto Yamada - 2017 Topps Now Japan Team Set #JPN-1

Hotoka Yamakawa - 2019 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-34

Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #10 (Gold Signature Parallel)

Masataka Yoshida - 2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-10

Atsuki Yuasa - 2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-13


5 comments:

Fuji said...

I'm still looking to add my first Nootbaar to the collection as well.

Zippy Zappy said...

Bet you never thought you'd run into a situation where an MLBer would be the missing piece in a post about Team Japan's cards.

NPB Card Guy said...

@Fuji - I'm not really looking to add one for the sake of adding one unless it's a WBC-related card

@Zippy Zappy - Exactly

Mischa Gelman said...

Soichiro Yamazaki joined the team mid-event due to an injury, if you want to add him.

NPB Card Guy said...

I thought about it but it was kind of a "of the moment" post