THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS GAME PARTS.

It’s déjà vu all over again for baseball fans as, for the second year in a row, the Dodgers won the World Series over an AL East opponent. This time it was against the American League champion Blue Jays who fought hard to take a 3-2 lead before heading back home for games 6 and 7. Unfortunately for Toronto fans, the squad couldn’t get the job done as World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto secured the win in both games, starting the former and closing out the latter. His three wins in the series also included a complete game in Game 2 and tied the record for most pitching wins in a World Series performance.

The storylines don’t end there for Los Angeles. Not only did the team go back-to-back as champions, but Shohei Ohtani went back-to-back as the National League MVP, earning his third straight MVP award including his win on the opposite side of town in 2023. At this point, Ohtani seems to set a new record every year, as he returned to pitching duties to become the first player in MLB history to hit 50+ home runs (55) and strike out 50+ batters (62) in the same season. Speaking of back-to-backs, you can’t forget about New York’s own Aaron Judge, who won his second MVP in a row while eclipsing 50 home runs for the fourth time in his career (53) and leading the majors in batting average (.331). Just when you thought the Yankee Captain had run out of ways to impress, he delivers something new.

Despite Judge’s dominance, winning the MVP was not a foregone conclusion due to the monstrous season from Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh. Raleigh put together a season matched by no other player in the history of MLB as he not only became the first catcher to hit 50 home runs, but he became the first catcher to hit 60 home runs in a single season, shattering Salvy Perez’s previous record of 48. He did this for a Seattle Mariners team that won the AL West and made it to the ALCS for the first time in twenty four years. For a moment in time, it looked like Seattle might be a team of destiny, but they fell in seven to the Blue Jays on the back of a three-run George Springer home run in the seventh inning that put Toronto in position to secure a 4-3 victory.

Detroit was another team that briefly emerged as an AL contender this season, building on their hot finish in 2024 to put together an 87-win campaign. Though they ceded the division title to Cleveland in the final weeks of September, they were able to reclaim their pride with a Wild Card series win over their foes from the Central. Lefty ace Tarik Skubal took home the AL Cy Young yet again as he managed to one-up nearly every stat from the previous year, improving in ERA (2.21), strikeouts (241), and WHIP (0.89). He was challenged only by fellow lefty Garrett Crochet, who put up career bests in every stat in his first season with Boston, leading the majors in Ks in the process (255).

As close as the AL Cy Young race was, the voting in the NL proved to be much less divisive. Righty flame thrower Paul Skenes was unanimously voted the NL Cy Young as he pulled off nearly identical numbers from his previous Rookie of the Year campaign with an incredible 1.97 ERA (1.96 last year) and 0.948 WHIP (0.947 last year). He did best last season with his 32 starts and 187.2 innings pitched this year. Skenes is off to as dominant of a career start as one could possibly hope for.

2025 saw a wide array of storylines develop around MLB, including the (Sacramento?) Athletics producing two Rookie of the Year finalists, with Nick Kurtz winning over teammate Jacob Wilson. Arguably the most exciting storylines came in the form of blockbuster trades that changed the dynamic of both leagues, starting with Boston shipping franchise-staple Rafael Devers over to the San Francisco Giants in the early goings of the season. San Francisco failed to make the postseason in a stacked division, but fans eagerly anticipate a full season of Raffy in 2026. Another huge trade came in the form of Arizona shipping Eugenio Suarez and Josh Naylor to the Mariners at the trade deadline, bolstering Seattle’s roster for a deep playoff run. Houston fans were also treated to a rather unceremonious homecoming with the return of veteran SS Carlos Correa as the team failed to make the postseason for the first time since 2016.

Rated for Basic, Advanced, and Super-Advanced play.

Every card set includes 27 player cards for each team plus a mixed players group of 27 player cards. The additional players (purchased separately) contains 360 player cards including combined AL/NL cards for players traded between the leagues.

Enhanced by 1200 additional hours of box-score analysis and in-depth research to create exclusive Strat-O ratings.