2019 BBM Team Sets

The bulk of the package I got from Ryan last week contained the last six BBM "comprehensive" team sets that I needed for this year - the Dragons, the Hawks, the Tigers, the Fighters, the Buffaloes and the Eagles. He had previously gotten four of them (the Marines, the Swallows, the Carp and the Baystars) for me and given them to me when we met up in Tokyo. I bought the other two myself in card shops - picking up the Giants set at Coletre and the Lions set at Mint Hakata.

As has been standard for the past five years, the base set for each of BBM's team sets contain 81 cards. There are 66-70 cards for the manager and all the players on the 70-man roster. Every set except the Hawks and Marines have a single card dedicated to their mascots that doubles as a checklist card. The Marines have two cards for their mascots - one that features multiple mascots and also doubles as a checklist and one the features the Mysterious Fish. The Hawks don't have a mascot card at all. For the first time since I've been paying attention, no set has a separate team logo/checklist card. The rest of the base sets after the player cards and the mascot card(s) is filled in with two to four subsets. Here's how each team's set breaks down:

Team	Player/Manager Cards	Mascot Cards	Subsets
Chiba Lotte Marines	70	2	Last Voyage (3), Elite Club (3), Pump Up (3)
Chunichi Dragons	69	1	Combo (2), D's Emblem (9)
Fukuoka Softbank Hawks	70	0	Fresh Prince(2), Get Over (6), Spring Big Deal (6)
Hanshin Tigers	68	1	New Breed (3), Fabulous Ones (4), Key Role (5)
Hiroshima Toyo Carp	69	1	Newcomer (2), Glorious Victory (3), Best Contribution (4), Dominican Spirit (2)
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	70	1	King Is Coming (3), Quick Boost (3), Early Impact (4)
Orix Buffaloes	69	1	Super Nova (2), Winning Formula (3), Just Do It (3), Orimen (3)
Saitama Seibu Lions	67	1	College Connection (4), New Blue Blood (4), Pole Position (5)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	68	1	Newcomer (3), No Surrender (4), Meet The Target (5)
Tokyo Yakult Swallows	69	1	Brilliant Future (5), No Doubt(3), Record Makers (3)
Yokohama DeNA Baystars	69	1	Limelight (5), Lockdown (3), Hop, Step, Jump (3)
Yomiuri Giants	66	1	Giant Four (4), Glorious Number (4), Growing Hope (3), G-Genuine (3)

Each set contains some 30-35 players who did not appear in BBM's flagship sets this year. Here's an example card from each set featuring a player who is only in the team sets this year (so far):