Jose Urena Forum

I noticed this because I love collecting cards of players on teams they briefly played for or never actually played a major league game for. This year in Topps Update, Jose Urena is on the Nationals despite only playing in the minors for them. What I find really strange though, is that Urena is on the Padres in 2023 Heritage High Series despite never signing any kind of a deal with the Padres at any point this season or ever.

Willing to bet it's a play on the '74 Topps set where Padres players cards had Washington cards despite not having played in Washington.

That's a good point. I know they paid homage to the 1974 set with SP variations like this in 2020 Topps Archives

I’m not sure how I feel about making a mistake like that intentionally.  On one hand, I like the tribute to the original set.  On the other hand, I don’t know if I like them making a card of someone on the wrong team on purpose. 

If they did do that than it needs to be handled just like the 1974 Topps set. 

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/74/cid/31161/1974-Topps-250-Willie-McCovey

This has not as much to do with the original topic as much as your guys obvious knowledge of baseball cards and me seeing an opportunity to ask a question that's been bugging me. Can you fellas tell me where the odd numbering on alot of parallel sets come from. For example, I have a few Rafael Furcal Donruss cards and theres the /2023, /199 which are easy but then I have 46/69 and I doubt they are being immature at the Panini plant. The stats have his triples for his career at 69 but is that really how they numbered the card. Then a 023/291 and the 291 is not in the stats at all. Also is there a source to find out the answers as cards come up because I checked on the companies respective sites and there is surprisingly little information on them about how they do things just how to buy more things

Thanks

If you look on the bottom of the front of the Furcal card it says “Season - 291 TB in 2006”.  So this is the season statline parallel, and for this instance they used his total bases for a specific season.  Every card in these season and career statline parallels will be different, and Panini is not great about publishing correct checklists.