Topps is back with the release of its annual update set, the 2023 Topps Update Series. Essentially a Series 3, Topps Update Series serves as a bookend to Topps’ flagship product.
Using the same design as Series One and Two, the Update Series features some of the players who changed teams throughout the season and rookies who have made their debuts. However, this earlier release of the Update Series does not include players traded at the trade deadline in their new uniforms. It also excludes several rookies who made their debuts, including Reds star Elly De La Cruz.
Lucky for Topps, they had already included nearly all of the Mets traded at the deadline in Series One and Two, so the only former Mets included in the base set is Tommy Pham. However, you will find Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer in a few of the insert sets.
Topps Update Series is a 330-card set, much like Series One and Two. As is usual with Topps’ flagship releases, you will find more than a dozen different parallels of each card in the product, with some of the parallels being serial numbered from one of one or up to 2023.
The yearlong 35th-anniversary celebration of the release of the 1988 Topps Baseball set continues in the Update Series. These insert cards also come in six different parallel versions, plus there are also 1988 Topps Baseball Autographs included in the products. These autographs also have two parallel sets.
There are a few new insert sets in the Update Series product. You can find an entire insert set that highlights the 2023 All-Star Game that was held at Safeco Field in Seattle. Laid Out features some of the biggest plays from the biggest stars.
Time-Spanning Tandems is a new insert set that is essentially a spinoff of the Topps Heritage Then & Now insert set that pairs one of today’s stars with a legendary star. Other returning insert sets from Series One and Two are Stars of MLB, Stars of MLB Chrome, All Aces, AKA, and Heavy Lumber. Also, Topps Black Gold makes its return in the Update Series.
As always, you can find autographs and memorabilia cards in various formats and parallels.
The Mets cards featured in the Update Series base set have more of a leftover feel to them. Series One and Two featured all of the Mets’ stars and offseason acquisitions, so the update series has mostly the leftovers with cards of Omar Narváez, Brooks Raley, and Danny Mendick. Topps manages to salvage the Mets team set with Rookie Debut cards of Kodai Senga, Brett Baty, and Francisco Alvarez.
Below is a full checklist of the Mets cards in the 2023 Topps Update Series product. You can preorder them now or buy them when they hit stores on October 11.
Base
US20 Kodai Senga – Rookie Debut
US23 Danny Mendick
US30 Drew Smith
US43 Brooks Raley
US90 Tommy Pham
US105 Tomas Nido
US121 Luis Guillorme
US152 Omar Narváez
US158 Brett Baty – Rookie Debut
US255 Francisco Alvarez – Rookie Debut
US292 Pete Alonso – Season Highlights
1988 Topps Baseball
88US-33 Kodai Senga
88US-34 Justin Verlander
1988 Topps Baseball Autographs
88BA-DST Darryl Strawberry
88BA-JB Jose Butto
88BA-KS Kodai Senga
1988 Topps Baseball Chrome Silver Packs
T88CU-30 Darryl Strawberry
T88CU-36 Gary Carter
T88CU-45 Brett Baty
T88CU-60 Francisco Alvarez
T88CU-71 Starling Marte
T88CU-79 Kodai Senga
T88CU-89 Justin Verlander
1988 Topps Baseball Chrome Silver Packs Autographs
T88CU-30 Darryl Strawberry
T88CU-45 Brett Baty
T88CU-60 Francisco Alvarez
T88CU-71 Starling Marte
T88CU-79 Kodai Senga
2023 All-Star Game
ASG-39 Kodai Senga
ASG-40 Pete Alonso
Action Stars
AS-11 Brett Baty
AS-13 Pete Alonso
All Aces
AA-63 Dwight Gooden
All Aces Autographs
AA-63 Dwight Gooden
All-Star Jumbo Patch
ASJP-PA Pete Alonso
ASJP-SEN Kodai Senga
All-Star Jumbo Patch Autographs
ASJP-PA Pete Alonso
ASJP-SEN Kodai Senga
All-Star Stitches
ASSA-PA Pete Alonso
ASSA-KS Kodai Senga
All-Star Stitches Autographs
ASSA-PA Pete Alonso
ASSA-KS Kodai Senga
All-Star Stitches Dual (serial numbered to 25)
ASSD-OS Shohei Ohtani/Kodai Senga
Clear
US20 Kodai Senga – Rookie Debut
US158 Brett Baty – Rookie Debut
US255 Francisco Alvarez – Rookie Debut
Commemorative Postseason Trophy Medallion Autographs
PTM-DS Darryl Strawberry
Heavy Lumber
HL-55 Brett Baty
Laid Out
LO-17 Francisco Lindor
Luke the Cardist Base Card Art
450 Francisco Lindor
Major League Material
MLM-FA Francisco Alvarez
MLM-PA Pete Alonso
Major League Material Autographs
MLMA- Brett Baty
MLMA-SM Starling Marte
MLB First Stitch Pitch
FSP-JVE Justin Verlander
Oversized All-Star Game Red Carpet Redemptions
Pete Alonso
Kodai Senga
Oversized Topps Big Baseball
BIG-10 Kodai Senga
BIG13 Pete Alonso
Oversized Topps Big Baseball Autographs
BIG-PA Pete Alonso
Own the Name Relics (serial number 1 of 1)
OTN-BN Brandon Nimmo
OTN-CC Carlos Carrasco
OTN-JMC Jeff McNeil
OTN-PA Pete Alonso
Stars of MLB
SMLB-61 Justin Verlander
SMLB-62 Kodai Senga
SMLB-82 Brett Baty
SMLB-83 Max Scherzer
Stars of MLB Chrome
SMLBC-61 Justin Verlander
SMLBC-62 Kodai Senga
SMLBC-82 Brett Baty
SMLBC-83 Max Scherzer
Time-Spanning Tandems
TS-16 Pete Alonso/David Wright
TS-17 Justin Verlander/Tom Seaver
Topps Black Gold
BG-15 Brett Baty
BG-16 Francisco Alvarez
BG-17 Kodai Senga
Topps Black Gold Autographs
BG-15 Brett Baty
BG-16 Francisco Alvarez
Topps Reverence Autograph Patch
TRAP2-FRA Francisco Alvarez
