General Forum

Victor Caratini was traded to the Brewers on April 6th 2022. He has yet to appear in a release of any major Topps set. He has a few cards in Topps Now and the team release. Nothing in anything else.

On the other hand Lorenzo Cain was released from the Brewers almost as long as Caratini has been on the team, yet they put Lo Cain in 2023 Heritage.

Has anyone else noticed this with a player from their favorite team?

For sure, it bothered me too.

Chalk it up to name recognition. Cain is more of a "name" due to feats in KC, but yes, laziness on Topps part. Caratini isn't exactly a nobody and should have at least been in the Update set.

Caratini should definitely have cards. He doesn’t, yet Curtis Terry, a journeyman minor leaguer, gets 700 major league Twins cards in 2022, a team he never played for. (Previously discussed in the forums).  If the card companies did a little research they would be able to more accurately predict who would be on a roster. 
I still get irritated when I have to trade for or purchase a Curtis Terry card to finish a Twins team set. 

He has cards in Panini sets. Didn't realise he had nothing in Topps tho.

Could it be he has an issue with Topps just like Ichiro did?  It may not be Topps the only one to blame here. Maybe he didn’t sign a contract with topps.  Maybe he  collects cards and sees the laziness topps does with cards using the same image in topps , topps update and sometimes goes into the other topps sets as well. We all seen this happening and maybe he doesn’t want to be a part of that.  2 sides of the story but i would like to know the truth about it

Thanks for the replies. He made the series 2 cut! 

BTW, this was just observation of mine, I hope no one got the sense that I was legitimately upset.

I've got a Curtis Terry autograph that sounds right up your alley TC34!  Or am I reading the room wrong?