New Panini Cards of Japanese Players

There's some recent releases by Panini that have included cards of Japanese players and I wanted to do a quick post about them.

There's yet another Tomoyuki Sugano Panini card.  The Crusade set includes a card of him along with something like seven different parallels.  There's also a autographed card for him as well.  I picked up the base set card off of Ebay last week - here's the front and back of it.

2024 Panini Crusade #174

Pretty sure this is the same photo that Panini used on a couple of his cards from last year.

Panini has released a box set version of their USA Baseball Stars & Stripes set.  Each box contains a 94 card base set, four autographed Team USA cards, a Chinese Taipei National Team game-worn jersey card and a Japanese Collegiate All Stars game-worn jersey card.  The Japanese Collegiate All Stars game-worn jersey cards appear to be exactly the same as the autographed memorabilia cards that were released back in July except that they (1) don't have autographs and (2) are not serially numbered.  This is a much cheaper option for getting all the team members than the autographed cards.  I picked up two of them last week off of Ebay:

To be honest, these look a little odd with the empty space on the right where the sticker autographs went.