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Originally Posted by Merkle923
Not to continue to wander totally off topic but by contract Topps is forbidden from issuing a card of a player in its main set until that player has appeared in a major league game. That was what the entire Alex Gordon flap was about in 2006.
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I believe, technically, Topps can put them on cardboard if they're on the 25-man at any point in the regular season, whether or not they actually appeared in a game. September call-ups can't be pictured in the year of the call-up (that's 40 man) but then can appear the following year if they got into a game that previous September. And then, of course, there's the mess that is Bowman.
My point was:
If Cespedes, for example, is still unsigned on December 1st (or wherever their cutoff date falls), Topps will make SURE he's in Series
One as a Met. Most collectors don't understand why you couldn't hold him for Series Two to get him in a proper (if digitally altered) uniform of his new team. I have my suspicions and it doesn't bother me much. But other collectors hate that. And most collectors also hate the Update Series for all its wasted cards. How many Puig's were there in the Update Series that one year? Seemed like a hundred of 'em.