Panini ‘USA Baseball Stars & Stripes’ Cards Release Friday With Loads Of MLB Draft Prospects

The release of Bowman 2025 is right around the corner, featuring all of the top players taken in the 2024 MLB Draft.

But if you’re looking for an autograph-and-relic-loaded release featuring players who haven’t been drafted yet, then this Friday’s release of Panini “USA Baseball Stars & Stripes” is a good one to target.

According to Panini, the release will feature young players “starting with the Collegiate National Team down to the 13U/14U Athlete Development Program and all the way to the U16 Team Australia National Junior Squad, Canadian Junior National Team, and Chinese Taipei National Team programs.”

Hobby boxes will contain just eight cards—but seven of those will be either autographs or relic cards. Panini has not yet announced a price point, but major retailers are pricing hobby boxes at about $100.

Though the full checklist has also not yet been released, based on early product images released by Panini, it looks to be absolutely loaded with top prospects.

The top names from Baseball America’s 2025 draft rankings are all represented. Top talent such as Jamie Arnold and Ethan Holliday have autographs in the release, including a quadruple auto chase card featuring the two of them with other top names Gavin Grahovac and Caden Bodine.

Other names also confirmed for the release include Drew Burress, Tyler Bremner, Devin Taylor and Jorvorskie Lane Jr.

Panini is the exclusive trading-card partner of USA Baseball. Players wear a Panini patch on their uniforms, which are then taken and put into relic cards in this set.

Other relic cards will include batting gloves and flags.

The release will also feature Panini’s popular Kaboom chase cards, which look like they will be a walk down USA Baseball memory lane. One early image released by the company features Bobby Witt Jr.

“USA Stars & Stripes” Baseball will be officially released on the Panini website this Friday, April 18 at 1 p.m. ET, and is already available for preorder at most major retailers.