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Big Papi David Ortiz predicts top prospects as Topps launches 2025 Bowman Baseball
By the end of his Hall of Fame career, David Ortiz was known simply as “Big Papi.”
Who knew he was also “Big Swami?”
Topps released 2025 Bowman Baseball Wednesday with a fun, clever commercial in which the game’s greatest designated hitter becomes a “designated reader.” As a tarot card reader, Ortiz helps collectors predict the baseball future as they search for cards of the top prospects and rookies in the game.
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In the spot filmed at CardVault by Tom Brady at TD Garden in Boston, two friends enter a hobby shop and ask about a box of Bowman Baseball, wondering how they can predict which players will be good in the future.
The spot then pans to a secret room with a sign saying “See The Future.” The spooky room is decorated with baseball-inspired candles and memorabilia, including Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster and Ortiz dressed as a tarot card reader.
As Ortiz imparts his wisdom, he proclaims that Jesus Made, J.J. Wetherholt and Charlie Condon are the biggest stars of the future. Of Wetherholt, he said, “This dude can do some damage,” while he called Condon “the new generation power hitter” and “the next Aaron Judge.”
“The future,” he said, ”is in the cards.”
BOWMAN BREAKDOWN
The 2025 Bowman Baseball set hit hobby shops and Topps.com Wednesday. Highlights include:
• Each Hobby pack includes three base cards, three Paper Prospects, and two Chrome Prospects.
• Each Hobby box contains one Chrome Prospect Mini Diamond Refractor, one Chrome Prospect X-Fractor, and one Autograph.
