the joy and ease (and repetition) of completing a couple of team sets

when team sets are individually packaged, it makes completing them nice and easy.

case in point, the topps factory sealed team sets that have been around for over a decade now.  i used to do a yearly comparison between the flagship team set and that truncated team set, but haven't done one since the truncated 2016 post, and have again decided to forego it this year.  instead, here are four cards from the factory team set - cody bellinger, clayton kershaw, corey seager, and justin turner.

we've seen three of these four images before - the bellinger and kershaw in series 1, and the turner in opening day.  we haven't seen seager's flagship card yet, but he was in opening day with a different photo.  i like the seager card quite a bit, even though he is in pnc park and not dodger stadium.  

i chose those four cards because those four players are also included in the topps national league standout factory set.  here are the cards from that set - also a complete team set as it were.

here, the kershaw and seager cards are different, although they both use the same image as was used in opening day. now that topps is using different photos for some base opening day cards, maybe they will get back to more variety in the factory team sets.

series 2 comes out this week, and with my series 1 team set already complete, i'll be looking forward to knocking that one out as well even though i've likely seen many of the images already.