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• New design, expanded rosters for the "trading card" set. The “express” version of the 2025 Pro Season is arguably our best-ever current-season offering. We've expanded the set to 27 cards per team. The cards have the same size and look as standard baseball trading cards. The last two years we've gone for a modern look, but for the 2025 set we're offering a retro "throwback" presentation that (for veteran hobbyists at least) should evoke memories of opening packs of Topps baseball cards when we were kids. Available as a printed product only this year.
• New design for the "season PLAAY-through" expanded set. We’ve made some subtle design changes to enhance the look of the cards, but the presentation is substantially similar to past pro season releases. The standard version includes over 1000 players carded, every player with at least 100 at bats or 20 innings pitched, about 35 players per team. The standard card set is available both as a printed card set and a digital download.
• Player Movement/Double-Carded Players: We've again provided player movement helps for our two new baseball releases to help you quickly tailor your set to align with the kind of tabletop project you’re planning to run. For the trading card version, we've adapted the tradition "traded" and "acquired" notations that you'd find on baseball trading cards. "Traded" is in red, "Acquired" is in green. For the standard set, we're again incorporating the "traded" and "acquired" symbols from our previous in-season card sets onto the cards. You’ll find these symbols on the position line of the player’s card.
• STRONG and TERSE endurance qualities for pitchers. For several years now, we've included the TERSE and SRONG pitching stamina qualities in the annual "in-season" set, but have left them out of the full-season releases. We're going to leave them in this year, and see what the response is. These qualities do NOT appear in the game book. They are related to usage ONLY. TERSE pitchers have less endurance and make brief appearances. STRONG pitchers have additional endurance and make extended appearances. You are not obligated to observe these qualities--they are completely optional.
• Usage symbols for umpires. These work the same for umps as for players: a fill-in star indicates full-time usage; outlined star indicates part-time usage; no usage star indicates infrequent appearances. Every ump who appeared in at least 10 games is included.