Card Of The Week June 28

Interleague play wrapped up a week and a half ago and, for the first time ever, the Lions were interleague champions.  They went 14-3-1 during the three-ish weeks of interleague play for a winning percentage of .824, the highest mark in the history (that goes back to 2005 with the exception of 2020).  Seibu's Shinya Hasegawa was named interleague MVP, partly because of his getting sayonara hits in back-to-back games a few weeks ago.  

As I mentioned when I featured him two weeks ago, Hasegawa was originally an ikusei player.  He was taken by the Lions in the second round of the development player phase of the 2020 draft and wasn't added to the 70 man roster until mid-season in 2022.  Here's his "1st Version Update" card from the 2022 BBM Fusion set (#620), his first card in anyone's "flagship" set:

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  I've been ridiculously busy the last couple weeks but I'm hoping things settle down some this week and I can get back to writing somewhat regularly.