Cuban outfielder Oscar Colas, formerly of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, has apparently agreed to a deal with the Chicago White Sox that will go into affect with the next MLB international signing period begins on January 15th, 2022. This will be over two years since Colas defected from Cuba to try to join an MLB team. He spent most of last year in a dispute with the Hawks over his contract status and the team didn't release from his contract until last November.
Colas does not have many Japanese baseball cards that I know about. The Hawks originally signed him in 2017 as a development (ikusei) player. BBM doesn't include ikusei players in their "comprehensive" team sets so he didn't have any BBM cards in either 2017 or 2018. He was registered to the 70 man roster on June 24th, 2019 though, just in time to be included in the 2019 BBM team set. He also had Epoch One cards issued for him on the occasion of his registration as well as his ichi-gun debut, as he homered in his first at bat with the top team. He might have cards in team issued sets from the Hawks but I haven't seen any. Here are the three cards I've mentioned:
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| 2019 BBM Hawks #H65 |
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| 2019 Epoch One #319 |
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| 2019 Epoch One #505 |
He also had some cards in some of Panini's issues last year but obviously those aren't Japanese cards.
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