I don't understand the E90-1 Mitchell

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Posted By: Seth B.

I'd love to hear about how caramel cards were printed; has anyone ever seen an uncut sheet?
The reason I ask is that I was just thinking about caramels tonight. How is it that a single common-player card can be shortprinted in a larger set, such as the E90-1 Mitchell? I understand with the T206 Wagner where the card was only printed in one series or removed from subsequent print runs. But without a card being deleted by the printer from later print runs, wouldn't you think that a sheet of cards, not a single card, would be short printed? And does that mean that there are actually just as many (or few) Duffys, Stahls, Peaches Graham, and other rare E90-1s than the Mitchell? The E102 Miller Fielding doesn't make any sense, either.
I know I must be missing something, someone enlighten me.