Random Topps Team Set of the Week: 2012 Topps Miami Marlins

Thanks to the Topps Card Randomizer, introducing the Random Topps Team Set of the Week:

• Team: 2012 Miami Marlins
• Record: 69-93, fifth place, NL East Division.
• Manager: Ozzie Guillen
• Card on the Top: Jose Reyes

The checklist consists of the following players:

• MIA1 Jose Reyes
• MIA2 Logan Morrison
• MIA3 Anibal Sanchez
• MIA4 Ricky Nolasco
• MIA5 Omar Infante
• MIA6 Hanley Ramirez
• MIA7 Josh Johnson
• MIA8 Emilio Bonifacio
• MIA9 John Buck
• MIA10 Mark Buehrle
• MIA11 Heath Bell
• MIA12 Mike Stanton
• MIA13 Gaby Sanchez
• MIA14 Matt Dominguez
• MIA15 Carlos Zambrano
• MIA16 Bryan Petersen
• MIA17 Marlins Park

The cards in order from the set (the checklist at the end was cut from the back of the package. What, you don't do that?):

Key differences between the team set and 2012 Topps eponymous set:

• Jose Reyes' regular Topps card uses the same picture, but is cropped a bit off to the left. And then of course, there is the issue of an SSP card inserted into series 1:
  
  

• It looks like Topps decided to photoshop the new Marlins duds on Anibal Sanchez' card. How do I know??? Here is the original card:
  
  

• Same goes with Ricky Nolasco:
  
  

• And here is a nice shot of Hanley Ramirez, before he was traded off to the Dodgers. His retail card is vertically-oriented. The base card? Horizontally-oriented:
  
  

• Hey, you know how Topps photoshopped the Miami duds on a couple of players for the retail set? They did the same thing for Emilio Bonifacio:
  
  

• On both the regular set and in this retail set, he is recognized as Mike. It's nice to know that when he decided to go by his real name that Topps added a second card with the name...Giancarlo (cue Fandango's music please):
  
  

• As it was with Sanchez, Nolasco, and Bonifacio, Matt Dominguez had a Florida Marlins jersey on his base card:
  
  

So of the 16 players included in this set, there are four cards that feature photoshopped Miami Marlins jerseys from their Series 1 cards, one with a different picture in the retail set that was used in 2012 Topps set, and one slight crop job (not counting the super SP).

Next week's featured set will be the 2009 Milwaukee Brewers. Hope you'll be here when we compare the cards from the retail set to their counterparts found in Topps and Topps Updates and Highlights Series.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama