[bk400]

I'm not really into game worn anything stuck into my cards, but I read this and thought that the deliberate manufacturing of game worn memorabilia -- to be stuck into cards -- might be getting out of hand?

From the Athletic:

Major League Baseball, Topps, Fanatics and Nike are collaborating on a new way of celebrating individual award winners through the MLB logo patches on their jerseys.

Debuted by NL MVP Shohei Ohtani during Saturday’s exhibition game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo (pictured above), each of the league’s six individual award winners — also including AL MVP Aaron Judge, NL Cy Young winner Chris Sale, AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, NL Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes and AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil — will have special gold embellished versions of the silhouetted MLB logo patches on the back of all their jerseys throughout the season. Those patches usually match the color scheme of each team’s jersey, so the gold patches will stand out from those worn by every other player in the league.

The gold MLB logo patches will be authenticated over the course of the season and 10 for each player will be removed from the jersey and put into Topps trading cards the following year. It is not yet known exactly which sets those cards will go into. Fanatics will also make retail versions of each player’s authentic Nike jerseys (home, away, alternate and City Connect) with the gold patches that will be sold...