Behind the ICON: Corbin Carroll, Juan Soto and Yordan Alvarez

Three Legendary ICONs. Three 1-of-1s. All from the 2022 Leadoff Series, all sitting in the vault until now.

Every collectible freezes a moment. What makes these three interesting is which moment. 2022 caught Corbin Carroll in the first weeks of his big-league career. It caught Juan Soto in the year he bet on himself. It caught Yordan Alvarez in the year he won it all.

Before you bid, here's how each of them got here.

Corbin Carroll: The Kid Who Never Slowed Down

Carroll grew up in Seattle, and the Diamondbacks took him 16th overall in 2019 straight out of high school. Small frame, big speed, and a swing that scouts kept underrating right up until the ball left the park.

Then, in May 2021, he tore up his shoulder swinging at a pitch. Not diving, not crashing into a wall. Hitting a home run. The surgery ended his season after seven games. For a lot of prospects, that's the moment the story goes sideways.

Carroll came back in 2022 and tore through Double-A and Triple-A so fast that Arizona called him up on August 29. That debut season is the one on this ICON. It's a Rookie First Mint, the first Candy ICON ever made of him, from the year he arrived.

Arizona knew what it had. Before he'd played a full season, the D-backs handed him an eight-year, $111 million extension. He answered with one of the best rookie years in modern memory: unanimous NL Rookie of the Year, 25 homers, 54 steals, an All-Star nod, and a pennant run that took the Diamondbacks to the World Series.

What's followed is a player who does one thing better than anyone alive: hit triples. He's led the NL in triples every full season he's played, set a franchise record with 17 in 2025, and is leading the majors again in 2026. He broke his hamate bone in February, had surgery the next day, and was still in the Opening Day lineup. In August he hit his 100th career home run. Three All-Star Games before his 26th birthday.

The 1-of-1 in Lot 1 is the beginning of all of it.

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Juan Soto: The $765 Million Bet That Started at 16

Soto signed with the Nationals out of Santo Domingo in 2015 as a teenager. He wasn't the most hyped name in his international class. He was just the one who could already hit.

By 2018 the Nationals couldn't keep him in the minors. He started the year in Low-A, and by May 20 he was in the big leagues at 19 years old, having skipped Triple-A entirely. He homered in his first major league start. The plate discipline that made him famous was already there: a teenager who walked more than he struck out and made pitchers look like they were the ones in over their heads.

In 2019, at 20, he was the middle of the order on a World Series champion, hitting .333 with three homers in the Series. In 2020 he won the batting title. The Nationals offered him a 15-year, $440 million extension in 2022. He turned it down.

That's the year on this ICON. Days after saying no, he was traded to San Diego. A year and a half later, to the Yankees, where he hit 41 home runs and helped bring the Bronx its first pennant in 15 years.

Then free agency, and the largest contract in the history of professional sports: 15 years, $765 million, with the Mets.

His first year in Queens delivered a career-best 43 homers and, of all things, the NL stolen base title. 2026 has been rougher. Two calf strains cost him most of the summer, but he made the All-Star team again, came back in late August rather than sitting out a lost season, and told reporters the plan was simple: finish strong.

Lot 2 is the Soto Legendary from the year he walked away from $440 million because he knew what he was worth.

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Yordan Alvarez: Traded Before He Played a Single Game

Alvarez is from Las Tunas, Cuba, where he was playing in the Cuban National Series while most kids his age were finishing high school. The Dodgers signed him in June 2016. On August 1, 2016, before he had taken a single at-bat in their system, they traded him to Houston for a relief pitcher named Josh Fields.

It might be the most lopsided trade of the decade.

He homered in his major league debut on June 9, 2019, and never stopped. Twenty-seven home runs in 87 games, a .313 average, and a 1.067 OPS that was the highest by a rookie in MLB history. AL Rookie of the Year, easily.

Then 2020 took almost the whole season away: surgery on both knees.

He came back in 2021 and hit 33 homers with 104 RBI, then hit .522 against Boston to win ALCS MVP. That set up 2022, the year on this ICON. The Astros signed him to a six-year, $115 million extension in June. He hit 37 homers, finished third in MVP voting, and turned October into a highlight reel. In Game 1 of the ALDS he hit a walk-off three-run homer with Houston down two, the first walk-off home run in postseason history by a team trailing by multiple runs. In Game 6 of the World Series he hit the go-ahead three-run shot that won the title.

2025 was the outlier: a hand fracture and an ankle sprain limited him to 48 games. 2026 has been the answer. He came out of the gate as the hottest hitter in baseball, made his fourth All-Star team, and has spent the season at or near the top of the majors in OPS with 30-plus home runs. The question in Houston isn't whether he's back. It's how far he can take it.

Lot 3 is the Alvarez Legendary from his championship season.

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The Lots

Lot 1: The 2022 Leadoff Corbin Carroll Rookie First Mint Legendary ICON, 1-of-1 and straight out of the vault. Paired with a Mike Trout Epic [40/250], a Shohei Ohtani On the Seams insert [75/250], and a Leadoff Series 10-Pack.

Lot 2: The 2022 Leadoff Juan Soto Legendary ICON, 1-of-1, from the vault. Comes with a Shohei Ohtani On the Seams insert [106/250], an Aaron Judge Animated Slugger insert [72/250], and a Leadoff Series 10-Pack.

Lot 3: The 2022 Leadoff Yordan Alvarez Legendary ICON, 1-of-1, pulled from the vault. Paired with an Aaron Judge Animated Slugger insert [131/250], a Shohei Ohtani On the Seams insert [230/250], and a Leadoff Series 10-Pack.

One of each. No more.

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