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MLB debut players will have special patches on jerseys​

By
The Associated Press
March 30, 2023, 9:12 AM ET
• 1 min read
NEW YORK -- Players making their big league debuts will be especially marked this season.

Major League Baseball announced before Thursday’s openers that players making their first appearances will wear debut patches on their jerseys. The patch will appear on different places of the jersey depending on the team and any anniversary of sponsor patches, with most clubs putting the debut marking on the sleeve and some on the chest.

After a player appears in his first game, the patch will be authenticated and placed on a Topps baseball card as part of an agreement reached by MLB and the business wing of the players’ association with Fanatics Collectibles, a division of Fanatics that acquired the trading card company Topps last year.

One card with the patch will be available for each player. ___

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Some of those are about to go for some major bank! I wonder if the other sports will start doing something like this too.

Watching the Cardinals Blue Jays game and I just got a glimpse of the Debut patch on Jordan Walker’s jersey sleeve. Really cool!!!

There are going to be some serious dollars changing hands as @Mike said.....though for every player who debuts who is the "next big thing" and people chase that patch card, in about 3 years, someone is going to join SCC and post their rookie patch 1/1 in the "Why Did I Buy that Card" thread!!

kclj520 said:

someone is going to join SCC and post their rookie patch 1/1 in the "Why Did I Buy that Card" thread!!

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There will, no doubt, be some seriously regrettable purchases because of those patches...

Mike said:

There will, no doubt, be some seriously regrettable purchases because of those patches...

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Right?? Still trying to unload those Jerome Walton and Mark Prior RCs when they were the Cubs' next big thing!!