Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed
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First up NL West Minus Dodgers (I have no idea why they would exclude the Doodgers from the reveal)
Click here to see short video and card art
They did not do a static picture so I can't link it.
99 Zac Gallen (Arizona)
99 Nolan Jones (Colorado)
99 ????? ????? (Los Angeles)
99 Ha-Seong Kim (San Diego)
99 Logan Webb (San Francisco)I like the card art quite a bit
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Going off those selections it’s probably Bobby Miller.
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I also like the card art quite a bit.
Other than maybe that Nolan Jones, the cards don't do anything for me though. -
99 Mookie was in Season 4 and never expires.
Freddie is probably a Ranked/XP Boss/Collection something or other.
Outman? Muncy?
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@skywalker_25 said in Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed:
I also like the card art quite a bit.
Other than maybe that Nolan Jones, the cards don't do anything for me though.I have such a god squad that I love and it’s season 4 eligible which means they’re good for the rest of the year.
These TA collection rewards are going to have to be something very special to get me to do that lengthy offline grind
I’m just kinda happy with my team as is and I have enough stubs to buy the Acuna chase pack card when it’s released Friday and still have 1mil left over.
I just don’t know if I see myself doing this TA grind this time around and that’s kinda one of the issues with the sets/seasons format
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Still not quite sure how Jazz warrants a 99 Finest. I know he's the cover guy, but... c'mon.
I agree with @aware_ward13_PSN
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@aware_ward13 said in Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed:
I have such a god squad that I love and it’s season 4 eligible which means they’re good for the rest of the year.
That isn't exactly true.
Set 4 cards are eligible for the rest of the year.
But, if you have any set 3 cards (which are season 4 eligible) in your squad then they will not work for season 5. -
@Dolenz
Everyone on my squad is from set 4…. Except my wildcard Javi Baez/Josh Donaldson
My team is eligible for the remainder of the game’s lifespan
Edit: except for Acuna but I’m assuming the new chase coming Friday is going to be milestone Acuna which I’ll buy
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AL West Cards (they left out the Angels)
- Jose Altuve - Astros
- Brent Rooker - A's
- ?????? ????? - Angels (Ohtani or Trout I assume)
- JP Crawford - Mariners
- Nathaniel Lowe - Texas
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@Dolenz said in Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed:
AL West Cards (the left out the Angels)
- Jose Altuve - Astros
- Brent Rooker - A's
- ?????? ????? - Angels (Ohtani or Trout I assume)
- JP Crawford - Mariners
- Nathaniel Lowe - Texas
I'm going out on a limb and saying the Angels Finest will be Neto. Does he deserve it? No (Jazz). But they would be stupid to make it Trout as it would tank his Chase card price.
And while it could be Ohtani; they would have to make it better than his Lightning card. Although, that card expires I think.
So a bttw Ohtani or a Neto card.
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With Altuve getting the Astros set 5 card he has now had a diamond card in every single set.
92 Set 1 Captain
99 Set 2 Kaiju
95 Set 3 Topps Now
97 Set 4 ALCS
99 Set 5 FinestWonder how many other players have had a card released every set?
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AL Central Cards
Luis Robert Jr. - White Sox
Steven Kwan - Cleveland
Eduardo Rodriguez - Detroit
Bobby Witt Jr - Kansas City
Jhoan Duran - Minnesota -
REALLY!? Rodriguez for the Tigers? Dude costs us some capitol, was average after he came back and isn't coming back next year. Why not Torkelson, Skubal or Greene? Do these guys even watch real baseball? I'm guessing these guys that get feature cards again and again signed bigger contracts for likeness to be used and they have to keep putting them on cards.
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@Dolenz said in Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed:
AL Central Cards
Luis Robert Jr. - White Sox
Steven Kwan - Cleveland
Eduardo Rodriguez - Detroit
Bobby Witt Jr - Kansas City
Jhoan Duran - MinnesotaO hey look another Bobby Witt Jr, but i guess who else could they possibly have given the Royals, i just hooe we finally get 99 George Brett
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@rageincage007 said in Season 5 Team Affinity (Finest) Cards revealed:
I'm guessing these guys that get feature cards again and again signed bigger contracts for likeness to be used and they have to keep putting them on cards.
That is not how it works.
All current players are under the same license agreement per MLBPA. Only Jazz Chisholm gets more (and definitely preferential treatment) for being the cover athlete.
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NL Central Cards
Justin Steele - Chicago
Matt McLain - Cincinnati
Corbin Burnes - Milwaukee
David Bednar - Pittsburgh
Nolan Gorman - St. LouisI'll take a Gorman card but I am a little disturbed that the only Nolan Arenado card for the Cardinals that is eligible for season 5 will be his Live series card.
In defense of the choice though, Gorman led the team in HR and was 3rd in RBIs in spite of having 150 fewer at bats than Arenado and more then 180 fewer at bats than Goldschmidt.
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Really happy about McClain getting the Reds finest. It was either him or Steer, and with Steer getting a 97 TN I was hoping McClain would get an upgrade!
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I know it's not the same for everyone but I can't remember being less excited for Finest cards than I am this year. Having so many variations of cards/same player has caused most of these finest to feel "blah". Anyone else like this?
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I want whoever decided to put in a Finest David Bednar card in over Bryan Reynolds fired and/or put in jail.
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@Dolenz Then perhaps its a dart throw, LOL
