This is the sixth year JABA has released a card set and, as usual, details about it are somewhat hard to come by. I've used the latest pdf from JABA's website that the QR code on the packs sends you to and generated a list of players and then I started looking at card listings on Mercari to correlate the card numbers. From what I can tell, the set has at least 104 cards although the pdf only lists 95 players - the additional nine players appear to be award winners from 2025 who weren't listed on the pdf. The pdf is entitled "Prospect Players List" which is kind of misleading as there's a handful of players who've been on the list every year for six years. Some of them are getting a little old to really be considered prospects.
The cards themselves look similar to the last few years. The big difference between this year's design and last year's is that the names are in Japanese on the front of the card instead of English. Here's the front and back of Motoki Mukoyama's card:
There are "kira" parallels available for the cards as well.
I'm still working on the checklist for the set but I've added the work in progress to the same Google spreadsheet that I've shared for the previous sets:
I've been working on this post off and on for over a month now but I wanted to get it done before the NPB draft (which is tomorrow) as I anticipate there being players in the set who get picked. Guess we'll know for sure tomorrow.
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