⚾ Graded 2024 Topps Now Shota Imanaga #105 Blue Parallel /49 Rookie RC Baseball Card — PSA 10 Gem Mint — Yokohama, Japan — DeNA BayStars (NPB) — Chicago Cubs — Limited to Only 49 Copies — PSA 10 Gem Mint

⚾ This Shota Imanaga 2024 Topps Now #105 Blue parallel baseball card has been graded PSA 10 Gem Mint — Professional Sports Authenticator's highest possible grade, confirming that this card meets the strictest standards for corners, surfaces, centering, and print quality that PSA's examination process applies before assigning the 10 designation. The Blue parallel of the 2024 Topps Now #105 is serial-numbered to just 49 copies — meaning only 49 of these exact cards exist in the entire world. This PSA 10 represents the highest-grade version of an ultra-limited card produced for the pitcher whose 2024 Chicago Cubs debut was one of the best first-season performances by any Japanese pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Yokohama, Japan — DeNA BayStars — The Left-Hander Who Came to Chicago

🌟 Shota Imanaga was born on September 1, 1993, in Yokohama, Japan — the industrial port city that has been home to the DeNA BayStars franchise, where Imanaga developed from a drafted amateur into one of the most skilled left-handed starters in Nippon Professional Baseball. Across his NPB career, Imanaga became known for a combination of pitch-tunneling ability, the devastating split-finger fastball that disappeared out of the strike zone at the last moment, and the deceptive mechanics that gave his fastball more swing-and-miss than its velocity suggested. When the Chicago Cubs signed him to a four-year contract before the 2024 season, the analytics community ranked his splitter among the most difficult pitches to square up in all of professional baseball. Condition: NOS.

🏆 2024 MLB Debut — One of the Best Japanese Pitcher Arrivals in MLB History

🏆 Shota Imanaga's 2024 Chicago Cubs season was the complete validation of the scouting that brought him from Yokohama to Wrigley Field: an ERA well under 3.00, elite walk rates, above-average strikeout numbers, and the consistent ability to suppress the highest-scoring lineups in the National League across a full 162-game schedule. The 2024 Topps Now product captures those moments in real time — issued day by day as the moments occur — and the Blue /49 parallel of his Topps Now card is the numbered, limited-edition documentation of the year that introduced him to American collectors and American box scores simultaneously. Condition: NOS.

⭐ The Topps Now Blue /49 — Numbered Cards at Their Most Meaningful

⭐ The Topps Now platform produces cards within a brief purchase window after the event they document occurs — a model that limits the base print run to the number of copies actually purchased during the window, creating natural scarcity for players whose moments attract fewer collectors on the day of release. The Blue parallel is always numbered to /49 regardless of the base card's print run — meaning only 49 Blue versions of Imanaga's #105 card exist. A PSA 10 on a /49 card changes the population math dramatically: there may be as few as 2-5 PSA 10 copies of this specific Blue /49 in existence. That scarcity, combined with the performance that the card documents, defines the collector value of this piece. Condition: NOS.

⚾🌟 Shota Imanaga. Yokohama, Japan. DeNA BayStars (NPB). Chicago Cubs (2024+). 2024 Topps Now #105 Blue parallel /49, PSA 10 Gem Mint. One of the 49 copies in existence. Condition: NOS.