any differences this year?

with 2023 topps update out, i can finally get this annual post posted! it's the comparison between topps flagship dodger cards and their counterparts from the factory team set.  mookie betts' team set card looks like this:

it's distinguishable from the flagship set thanks to the white topps logo as well as the numbering on the back:

topps also added "team set" below the number. they are getting better about distinguishing sets, but i wish they would expand this practice to inserts like upper deck and panini used to do, or still do in panini's case.

anyway, here we go. flagship on the left, team set on the right.

lad-1 mookie betts

outside of the difference in logo coloring (which i don't consider a real difference), there is no difference here.

lad-2 j.d. martinez

logo placement switch for no apparent reason.

lad-3 gavin lux

nothing to see here

lad-4 julio urias

nada

lad-5 freddie freeman

nope

lad-6 clayton kershaw

negative

lad-7 tony gonsolin

again, no.

lad-8 michael grove

rookie card logo relocation. again, no obvious reason why whis would occur.

lad-9 noah syndergaard

ok here we are. syndergaard got a dodger card in update that uses a real photo of him as a dodger. two photos, actually. it is a vast improvement over the photoshopped team set card that showed him wearing fernando valenzuela's number 34. big difference between these two cards!

lad-10 austin barnes

back to no difference

lad-11 james outman

another rookie card logo relocation

lad-12 max muncy

nothing

lad-13 chris taylor

nothing again

lad-14 will smith

again, nothing

lad-15 trayce thompson

even more nothing

lad-16 miguel vargas

not only is there nothing different, the rookie card logo didn't move

lad-17 walker buehler

and we end with...nothing.

i miss the years where there were at least a couple variations or even players (or managers or stadiums) that didn't show up in flagship. i hope we get a return to that in 2024.

anybody else buy team sets for other teams? any differences in those?