Today is February 1st which means that all the NPB teams opened their training camps today (although since it's already the 2nd in Japan, technically they did it yesterday). For the third year in a row, Epoch is commemorating the event by releasing the first batch of their on demand Epoch One cards. There are 71 2026 cards now available, the bulk of which (61 cards) are for the 2025 draft picks for the ten teams that Epoch issues these cards for - the Marines, Dragons, Hawks, Tigers, Fighters, Lions, Eagles, Swallows, Baystars and Giants or everyone other than the Carp and Buffaloes. For everyone except the Tigers, it's just the draftees from the "regular" phase of the draft but the Tigers players include the two players they took in the ikusei portion. These will be the first cards for many of these players, beating out their BBM Rookie Edition cards by several weeks. And no, there's no card for Rintaro Sasaki, the first round pick of the Hawks as he has not signed with the team.
The remaining ten cards are for players who changed teams over the winter. This includes Kenta Maeda, who returned to NPB after ten years in the US and signed with the Eagles as well as Hikaru Itoh (joined the Eagles), Toshiki Abe (Dragons), Go Matsumoto (Giants), Takahiro Norimoto (Giants), Hiroya Shimamoto (Fighters), Haruki Nishikawa (Fighters), Kohei Arihara (Fighters), Hiyu Motoyama (Tigers) and Torai Fushimi (Tigers).
This is the ninth year that Epoch has issued their Epoch One cards and I'm kind of amazed that everything about them has remained the same. They're still just 500 yen apiece (including domestic shipping) and are only available for three days. What's also apparently remained the same, unfortunately, is that there's no way to order these directly from overseas.