Saturday, November 3, 2018

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version Set - Where Are They Now?

I've gotten my collegiate sets a little out of order, mostly because I got them in a kind of random way 10 years ago and also because it's been 10 years(!).  BBM's second collegiate set was the 2008 Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version set, not the Collegiate National Team set like I previous posted. 

This set was issued by BBM in September of 2008 and was a box set containing 36 cards plus some sort of insert card (don't remember the details off hand and I didn't get one).  The 36 cards were split evenly among the six teams and included a team card for each team so there were 30 actual player cards in the set.  Ten of those 30 players (including all five Waseda players) went on to play in NPB.  Of those ten, five were in the Spring Version set (Takeshi Hosoyamada, Shinji Iwata, Takeshi Komatsu, Keijiro Matsumoto and Hiroki Uemoto).  (Taking into account players who didn't go on to NPB there were 16 total players in the set who were in the previous set.)  Six of the ten players would also appear in the Collegiate National Team set (Hosoyamada, Iwata, Matsumoto, Yuki Saitoh, Hisashi Takeuchi and Uemoto - this is actually the first set that Saitoh appears in).

Here's a summary of the careers of the ten players who went on to the NPB.  (Some of these may look familiar by now...)  Four of the players were still active in NPB in 2018.

Player College Year Drafted Notes
Yuki Egarashi Meiji 4 2011 Giants 6th Played for Toshiba after graduating before being drafted. Played for Giants 2012-17
Takeshi Hosoyamada Waseda 4 2008 Baystars 4th Played for Baystars 2009-13, Hawks 2014-15. Was released by DeNA after 2013 and joined Hawks as ikusei player. Made the Hawks' 70 man roster at the beginning of the 2015 season. Played for Toyota after leaving Hawks
Shinji Iwata Meiji 4 2008 Dragons 5th Played for Dragons 2009-16. Dragons minor league pitching coach starting in 2018
Takeshi Komatsu Hosei 4 2008 Carp 3rd Played for Carp 2009-13. Was on Carp's ikusei squad in 2013 and was "dispatched" to the Tokoshima Indigo Sox of the Shikoku Island League that year. Minor league coach for the Carp starting in 2018
Keijiro Matsumoto Waseda 4 2008 Baystars 1st Played for Baystars 2009-17. Joined Nippon Steel Sumikin Kazusa Magic in 2018
Yusuke Nomura Meiji 1 2011 Carp 1st Played for Carp 2012-present. 2012 Rookie Of The Year. Lead Central League in wins in 2016. All Star in 2012 & 2016. Named to Best 9 team in 2016
Tatsuya Ohishi Waseda 2 2010 Lions 1st Played for Lions 2011-present
Yuki Saitoh Waseda 2 2010 Fighters 1st Played for Fighters 2011-present. All Star in 2011-12
Hisashi Takeuchi Hosei 3 2009 Carp 3rd Played for Carp 2010-15
Hiroki Uemoto Waseda 4 2008 Tigers 3rd Played for Tigers 2009-present

Here's each player's card from the set plus a card of them from their NPB days:

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #02

2017 BBM Giants #G27

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #10

2011 BBM 2nd Version #661

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #01

2015 BBM Dragons #D16

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #25

2009 BBM 1st Version #359

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #11

2016 BBM Baystars #DB67

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #03

2018 Calbee #111

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #09

2018 BBM Icons-Fanfare #04

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #08

2017 BBM Fighters #F02

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #26

2013 Bandai Owners League 04 #048

2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #07

2018 Epoch NPB #271
Of the remaining 20 players in the set, two of them had their only card ever in this set - Yuhei Imura (Keio) and Kenya Ohbayashi (Rikkio).  The other 18 players appeared in other college sets - Kosuke Aizawa (Keio), Takayuki Chida (Meiji), Hitoshi Fuchigami (Keio), Hirata Furugata (Tokyo), Yusuke Hasegawa (Hosei), Daisuke Ikarashi (Rikkio), Junpei Komichi (Meiji), Takeru Maeshira (Tokyo), Nobuaki Nakabayashi (Keio), Masahito Nihira (Rikkio), Takahiro Ohtsubo (Tokyo), Yo Sasaki (Hosei), Kazuki Suetoh (Rikkio), Yuichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Takeyasu Takahashi (Tokyo), Soichiro Tanaka (Rikkio), Shota Waizumi (Hosei) and Naoki Yamaguchi (Keio).

2 comments:

SumoMenkoMan said...

Cool rundown. BBM sure cranked out the variety of sets these past 20 years for sure.

NPB Card Guy said...

Oh yeah. I do miss the collegiate sets though.