Shohei Ohtani Has An Incredible Amount Of Baseball Cards

22,126.

That's how many different cards Shohei Ohtani has according to the popular collectors' site Trading Card Database, at least at the moment.

Check back in a day and the number is bound to go up even more.

For collectors who came of age in the 1970s or 1980s, such a number seems absolutely bonkers.

After all, there was a time the game's top superstars might have only one or two cards a year.

Take San Francisco Giants legend Willie McCovey as an example.

At the time of his retirement following the 1980 season, he had a total of 225 different cards.

It would have by no means been easy, but it would have at least been possible for a Stretch super-fan to collect them all.

Today, by the way, thanks to numerous cards issued since his retirement, McCovey now has more than 5,000 different cards! But back to Shohei and his 22,126 cards for a second.

Is that the most? And if not, who has even more? Get ready to see some absolutely mind-blowing numbers that would have seemed impossible just decades ago.

Here are the current card counts for some of the greatest players in baseball history.

Mickey Mantle: 17,976 Babe Ruth: 16,312 Ted Williams: 9,154 Willie Mays: 8,328 Hank Aaron: 7,688 Jackie Robinson: 6,056 Lou Gehrig: 5,552 Ty Cobb: 4,750 While Mantle and Ruth are at least in the same ballpark as Shohei Ohtani, the Dodger two-way star has more cards than each of these legends.

Unlike most of the earlier names, this next batch includes players whose cards you may have pulled while they were still active.

Expect some crazy numbers from this group.

Ken Griffey, Jr.: 30,503 Albert Pujols: 29,793 Cal Ripken, Jr.: 28,940 Alex Rodriguez: 26,573 Derek Jeter: 25,903 Nolan Ryan: 24,381 Frank Thomas: 22,766 Roger Clemens: 20,014 Bo Jackson: 19,326 Rickey Henderson: 15,404 Reggie Jackson: 14,994 Barry Bonds: 14,211 George Brett: 12,106 Four of these players top Ohtani for the moment, but their leads may not last long.

Though these players continue to get new cards each year, the numbers just don't compare to what the game's current superstars rack up on an almost weekly basis.

Shohei Ohtani is clearly the biggest name in the sport, but it's not like he doesn't have competition.

Here are some of today's top superstars along with their card counts.

Mike Trout: 27,940 Shohei Ohtani: 22,126 Aaron Judge: 21,088 Bryce Harper: 20,584 Paul Skenes: 20,266 Juan Soto: 16,268 Fernando Tatis, Jr: 15,550 Clayton Kershaw: 15,530 Mookie Betts: 15,128 The leader of the pack is clearly Trout, but the craziest total on the list belongs to Pirates phenom Paul Skenes.

He literally just made his major league debut 13 months ago and is already within striking distance of Shohei.

So yes, Shohei has an absolutely insane number of cards, but nope, he has nowhere near the most.

Still, come back in a month and every single number in this article will have changed.

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