Living Set Shota Imanaga and Cody Bellinger

 Topps is playing Cubs catch-up in the Living Set.  There were 203 days without a Cubs card until one for Michael Busch was made the week of June 6.  Two weeks later, Shota Imanaga had a card and then there was one for Cody Bellinger the following week.  So after 6+ months without any Cub, we get three in four weeks.  Crazy!

 

The artist that did the Imanaga card is Angel Aviles while Jared Kelley created Bellingers.

The print run for Imanaga was the highest for a Cubs player since Ernie Banks in 2019.  Bellinger's was the lowest for any Cubs card in the set, ever.  

The cards are the 27th and 28th Cubs players to be featured.

#	Player	Date Released	Days Since Last Cub	Print Run
5	Ian Happ	3/21/18		3,042
30	Brandon Morrow	5/16/18	56	5,585
64	Ryne Sandberg	8/8/18	84	7,212
67	Anthony Rizzo	8/15/18	7	5,568
83	David Bote	9/19/18	35	5,345
103	Javier Baez	11/7/18	49	4,499
127	Kris Bryant	1/2/19	56	5,361
210	Jason Heyward	7/10/19	189	2,573
217	Ernie Banks	7/31/19	21	5,406
266	Kyle Hendricks	12/4/19	126	2,074
310	Nico Hoerner	5/6/20	154	3,523
323	Willson Contreras	6/25/20	50	2,052
352	Alec Mills	9/30/20	97	1,886
429	Craig Kimbrel	7/7/21	280	1,780
453	Patrick Wisdom	9/29/21	84	1,547
473	Frank Schwindel	12/8/21	70	1,764
516	Marcus Stroman	5/4/22	147	1,686
519	Fergie Jenkins	5/18/22	14	2,589
547	Seiya Suzuki	8/24/22	98	3,340
609	Lee Smith	3/10/23	197	1,775
638	Rick Monday	7/6/23	118	1,612
641	Christopher Morel	7/20/23	14	2,187
643	Ron Santo	7/27/23	7	1,917
667	Dansby Swanson	10/19/23	84	2,652
676	Justin Steele	11/16/23	28	1,535
734	Michael Busch	6/6/24	203	1,603
740	Shota Imanaga	6/27/24	21	4,114
742	Cody Bellinger	7/4/24	7	1,520