The 2021 edition of BBM's annual "Icons" box set was released back in March. The theme was "Progress" and featured players who (according to
BBM's website) "made progress" last year and rookies who "will progress in the future".
As usual unopened box sets contained 37 cards - a 36 card base set and one "special" card which could possibly be an autographed card - and as usual I only asked
Ryan to get me a base set. The 36 cards are split evenly between the 12 NPB teams so there are 3 cards per team.
I've felt for a while now that the Icons sets are an excuse for BBM to put out extra cards of the top draft picks as well as the first cards of players who changed teams over the winter out before the 1st Version set comes out (or Calbee's first set comes out). There are no players on new teams in this year's set but there are six first round picks from the 2020 draft - Teruaki Sato (Tigers), Hiroto Takahashi (Dragons), Hiromi Itoh (Fighters), Takahisa Hayakawa (Eagles), Kento Watanabe (Lions) and Taisei Irie (Baystars). The rest of the set is made up of mostly young players who've been drafted in the past couple seasons like Masato Morishita (Carp), Kyota Fujiwara (Marines), Hiroya Miyagi (Buffaloes), Yoshinobu Okugawa (Swallows) and Shosei Togo (Giants). There aren't a lot of big names in the set - probably the best known players are Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Yudai Ohno. Here's some example cards:
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| #17 |
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| #31 |
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| #26 |
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| #03 |
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| #09 |
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| #22 |
The entire set can be seen over at
Jambalaya.
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