Team Sets Galore!

Once again it's time to do a run-down of the sets that have recently been announced:

- BBM has announced four more of their "comprehensive" team sets for 2025.  I will just repeat the general details for the sets that I've said before - each set has a base set of 81 cards, most of which are "regular" player cards featuring the manager and the players on the 70 man roster plus a couple subsets (which may not be fully defined yet) to fill out the set.  Each set also has 18 non-premium insert cards split into a variety of sets which also may not be fully defined yet.  The sets also have two or three types of premium inserts that are serially numbered - Treasure, Esperanza and Eminent.  There will be rare parallel versions of some of the "regular" player cards that will feature photo variants or different backgrounds.

Release Date	Team	Regular Cards	Subsets	Non-Premium Inserts	Treasure	Esperanza	Eminent	Other
Mid June	Fighters	69	Nicknames (3), Dual Wielding (3), Superstars Parade (6)	Main Players (9), Bright Future (3), Rising Tide (3), Scoring Sources (3)	24	15		Autograph cards
Late June	Buffaloes	68	Osaka Natives (7), Combination (3), Poses Of Joy (3)	Main Players (9),  Ace  Number (1), Monster & Genius (2), Promising Young Players (3), Rookies (3)	24	15	24	Autograph cards, three types of memorabilia cards
Late June	Carp	70	Iron Wall (2), Promising Rising Stars (3), Smiles (3), Famous Scenes (3)	Core Players (9), Pitchers To Watch (3), Young Fielders (3), Rookies(3)	24	15		Autograph cards
Mid July	Baystars	66	Mascot (1), Powerful Catchers (3), Nakayoshi Combi (3), Dash (3), Record Achievers (4)	Core Players (9), Relief (3), Promising Young Players (3), Rookies (3)	24	15	24	Autograph cards

With these four announcements, the only teams left that BBM has not announced their 2025 "comprehensive" sets for are the Hawks and Tigers.

- Epoch has announced another of their "Premier Edition" team sets - this one's for the Carp and will be out on May 31st.  It'll have a 45 card base set and all 45 cards have a hologram parallel.  The set will have the same batch of inserts as the rest of the "Premier Edition" sets which are...deep breath...three varieties of "Regular Foil Signature" ("silver", "gold" and "hologram") (18 cards each), two varieties of "Regular Decomori Signature" ("hologram" and "hologram parallel") (18 cards each), five varieties of "Time To Shine" ("A","B","C","D","E") (six cards each) and three varieties of "Decomori Signature" ("gold","green" and "hologram") (six cards each).  I think all the inserts are serially numbered.  There are also the "GEM" and "BLACK GEM" "special insert cards" (nine cards in each) that I think are much more limited.  There are also four different types of autographed cards available - "Authentic" (45 cards), "Star" (2 cards), "Combo" (4 cards) and "Rookie" (8 cards).

- Bushiroad has announced expansion packs for their DreamOrder collectible card game for the last two teams that they hadn't done yet - the Fighters and Marines.  The cards will be released on June 14th.  Each pack is 500 yen and contains five cards.  I'm entirely sure what cards are available in the packs but it appears for each team there's some number (between 10 and 16) of "super rare" (SR) cards, ten "rare" cards and thirty "common" cards.  I think that some of the cards are "reprints" which I assume means they're essentially duplicates of cards that were previously issued.  There are also parallel and "special" parallel cards.  OB players are available as well as active players.

- "216 Co., Ltd." (aka "Hits" and "TIC") is issuing some sets of something that's not quite baseball cards but rather "mini folding screens".  Each "mini folding screen" is a panel about 24 centimeters (9 1/2 inches) by 13.5 centimeters (around 5 1/3 inches) which is split into three parts.  They've announced three team sets so far - the Giants (released on May 24th), the Dragons (released on May 31st) and the Hawks (June 7th).  Each set has four "normal" screens - each of which shows two to five players.  Each screen has a "gold stamped signature" parallel version.

- The Hanshin Tigers have a promotion going on right now where they are giving away baseball cards with certain meals at Koshien Stadium.  There are 31 total cards available - 21 of which are for manager Kyuji Fujikawa and current Tigers players while the other ten are OB players (including Randy Bass).  The cards were available starting last Friday (May 2nd) and the promotion will continue until May 22nd (although the Tigers will only be home for nine days between now and the end of the promotion).  The cards are randomly distributed so just because you buy the meal associated with a particular player doesn't mean you'll get that player's card.  There are autographed cards available randomly as well - not sure if that's ever been done with a team issued set before.  (H/T NPB On Reddit.)