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Originally Posted by Natsfan32
Not sure what Topps has against the Washington Nationals. Only the Nats and Astros had no TLS cards in 2024, and the Nats didn't have a card in 2023 either. In fact, the last Nationals player released for the TLS was CJ Abrams in August 2022. One could say that the Nats have had a lack of worthy candidates during that period, but there have been plenty of non-stars from other teams added the set. For example, 2024 was a great year for the Oakland A's in the TLS (if nothing else). We have some promising young pitchers like Jake Irvin and Mitchell Parker, and hitters like Jacob Young who could have been included. I assume we will see Dylan Crews and James Wood in 2025 but that doesn't eliminate the slight.
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I knew the Astros weren't featured in 2024 but didn't realize the Nationals haven't had a player in almost 2 and a half years. I definitely think each team should have at least one player, if not two, featured a year. The Rockies just had two players close together so hopefully your Nats have the same soon. I think it definitely hurts the Nats, as far as representation in the set, that they don't really have a retired player pool to pull from either pretty much as all the retired stars of that franchise are Expos.