Coming Soon To A Mailbox Near Me!

With the release of 2024 Topps right around the corner I went ahead and did the same thing I've done year-after-year for the past ten years or so. I headed over to eBay to find sellers that had this coming year's team set available for purchase. Normally Reds team sets don't go for that much but I had a feeling that this year would be different with Elly De La Cruz and Christian Encarnacion-Strand having their rookie cards in this release. $16 shipped is what I paid for the 12 cards in series 1. Now I just have to wait until around the end of the month before they arrive. I'm still on the fence about the design of this year's flagship set. Not sure if I like it or loathe it. I'll make up my mind when I actually have the cards in hand. Regardless, I'm glad that baseball season is right around the corner.

2022 Topps Cincinnati Reds Team Set

42 cards total in the base and update set 

45 Sonny Gray
60 Mike Moustakas
81 Jesse Winker
96 Cincinnati Reds
11 Tony Santillan
175 Tyler Stephenson
203 Wade Miley
290 Joey Votto
290SP Joey Votto
314 Eugenio Suarez
392 Luis Castillo
448 Nick Castellanos
448SP Frank Robinson
485 Jose Barrero
485SP Johnny Bench
536 Mark Kolozsvary
546 TJ Friedl
549 Shogo Akiyama
553 Jeff Hoffman
557 Kyle Farmer
557SP Barry Larkin
563 Jonathan India
563SP Jonathan India
619 Reiver Sanmartin
631 Vladimir Gutierrez
US21 Tyler Mahle
US26 Tommy Pham
US28 Colin Moran
US43 Jake Fraley
US80 Tyler Naquin
US124 Nick Senzel
US135 Alexis Diaz - Daniel Duarte
US159 Hunter Strickland
US160 Hunter Greene
US160SP Hunter Greene
US160SSP Hunter Greene
US161 Lucas Sims
US249 Nick Lodolo
US267 Hunter Greene
US298 Nick Lodolo
US298SP Nick Lodolo

2021 Topps Cincinnati Reds Team Set

42 cards total in the base and update set

52 Archie Bradley
55 Nick Senzel
82 Michael Lorenzen
96 Brian Goodwin
124 Amir Garrett
137 Trevor Bauer League Leader
153 Tyler Stephenson
153SP Tyler Stephenson
174 Raisel Iglesias
190 Sonny Gray
245 Aristides Aquino
271 Luis Castillo

274 Freddy Galvis
275 Joey Votto
275SP Joey Votto
281 Jesse Winker
333 TeJay Antone
365 Nick Castellanos
368 Mike Moustakas
374 Jose Garcia
347SP Jose Garcia
580 Tucker Barnhart
580SP Johnny Bench
582 Dwight Smith Jr.
587 Cincinnati Reds
627 Eugenio Suarez
638 Wade Miley
647 Shogo Akiyama
US34 Tyler Naquin
US36 Wade Miley
US37 Ryan Hendrix
US92 Tyler Stephenson
US129 Sean Doolittle
US145 Jonathan India
US182 Ashton Goudeau
US189 Jeff Hoffman
US213 Jose DeLeon
US285 Vladimir Gutierrez
US286 Jonathan India
US286SP Jonathan India
US307 Tyler Mahle
US319 Kyle Farmer

2020 Topps Cincinnati Reds Team Set

47 cards total in the base and update set

20 Aristides Aquino
20SP Aristides Aquino
20SSP Aristides Aquino
30 Jesse Winker
58 Josh VanMeter
107 Luis Castillo
140 Trevor Bauer
140SP Trevor Bauer
172 Sonny Gray
186SP Johnny Bench
197 Raisel Iglesias
209 Derek Dietrich
217 Amir Garrett
267 Joey Votto
267SP Joey Votto
287 Jose Peraza
290 Nick Senzel
368 Wade Miley
376 Shogo Akiyama
377 Phillip Ervin
431 Cincinnati Reds
460 Tyler Mahle
465 Eugenio Suarez
465SP Eugenio Suarez
496 Lucas Sims
510 Michael Lorenzen
533 Nick Castellanos
533SP Nick Castellanos
601 Tucker Barnhart
673 Anthony DeSclafani
685 Freddy Galvis
685SP Frank Robinson
U-6 Mike Moustakas
U-29 Aristides Aquino
U-29SP Aristides Aquino
U-31 Curt Casali
U-35 Kyle Farmer
U-43 Alex Blandino
U-51 Matt Davidson
U-109 Pedro Strop
U-153 Robert Stephenson
U-204 Eric Davis
U-215 Joey Votto
U-258 Todd Frazier
U-272 Joey Votto
U-272SP Joey Votto
U-281 Joeyl Kuhnel

2021 Topps

The cards are on their way. Each year I head over to eBay and pick up a Reds team set because I don't feel like spending money busting packs trying to build a single team set. That's just too expensive and I end up with a ton of cards and inserts I don't want. Besides, there are a lot of projects I'm working on and I would rather the majority of my funds go towards acquiring cards to complete those projects instead. Luckily for me, Topps only included one short print in series one that I needed for my set, the Joey Votto card pictured in the post. That too is on it's way to my house and hopefully will be in my binder before the end of the week. I'm glad that Topps decided to include a border in this year's design. To me, the base set should have a border. Save the full bleed photos for Stadium Club. I just don't care for all the transparent boxes on the front of the card. Still feels a little too much like Bowman for me. That and the fact that there are so many rookie cards in Series 1. Maybe if the name was a little larger I would be more of a fan of the design.

2020 Topps Reds Base Set is On the Way

I ordered my Series 1 Topps 2020 Cincinnati Reds Team Set today on eBay. Today's also the first day that I saw the design for this year's flagship brand from Topps. I'm not too thrilled with the look of this year's design. For whatever reason, I just get the feeling that Topps is slowly blending the look of it's flagship brand with Bowman. I can't stand it. You could once tell what cards belonged to what brand...now, not so much. In addition to that, Topps also decided to include short prints once again in this year's release. Some are ok, but this is the second consecutive year that they've included a super short print (that being the Aquino closeup). It's bad enough that the Aquino short prints are selling in the $40 price range on eBay and I've yet to see a super short print appear on the site. I'm sure those will be going well north of $100. Maybe in a few weeks the prices will drop as everyone's rushing to buy their cards now, but I doubt those Aquinos will fall simply because of what he did at the end of last season and the fact that his card has that little RC logo on it.