2022 Panini Select Baseball Forum

I feel like in this era of insanely high print runs and over-parallelization, 2022 Select Baseball stands out as a real oddity. 

I collect Ryan Zimmerman, and he appears in the 3rd tier (rarest) version of the set. Funny enough, I have a few of the parallels (including the Retail blue "base" variant of the card and a 1/1), but I've only ever seen the standard hobby base card a couple times on ebay and nowhere else (I still don't have it). Five people on here own the card - though many times when there is a retail base card variation I've seen people click the wrong checklist for that.

Anyway, it seems extraordinarily low pop for just a base card from any Select product, even the highest tier of the checklist. The 3rd tier cards all have "only" 8 parallels (if you don't include retail blue base), and two of them are /1 and two of them are /10 and one is a Zebra SSP. If you look at football, basketball or even soccer products, the third (or fourth) tier part of the checklist have way more parallels than that. 

I mean this more as a observation than anything. I know Select is unlicensed, but Panini's other baseball products seem to have a lot larger print runs than this one appears to have at first glance and Select is one of it's staple brands, not really high-end stuff. It is very unique to see in today's hobby.