Sport: Baseball
Product: 2016 Bowman blaster
Break Date: April 30, 2016
Hit Breakdown: No guaranteed hits
Summary: Bowman marks the beginning of the prospecting season for many collectors. While I'm not one who loves that angle of collecting, I do like opening a little bit of Bowman - mainly to see about grabbing up some Cardinals prospects.
So, when I saw the huge hits people were pulling out of this year's release, I figured it was time to give it a shot. However - the one blaster I bought turned out to be a huge swing and a miss.
Retail is always not the place you go hunting for huge cards. I've been back in the collecting world long enough to know that. But, with a Bowman blaster, I figure you'll at least get a refractor, or maybe a numbered paper base, or SOMETHING.
Nope. Not this blaster, at least.
All told, it was a pretty big pile of base cards. The nicest card was probably the Kenta Maeda Chrome rookie. There was one parallel - a silver paper Raimel Tapia - and a few inserts.
That's it.
The design for this year's cards is pretty busy also - I'm glad they went away from the white border theme that was pretty prevalent for too many years in a row, but this year's just a tad cluttered for my taste.
Overall, this was a dud. The low product grade may be fluid - if I get another blaster or two and do a bit better it may inch up. Again, I don't expect anything out of retail. But, for now...meh.
Grade for the product: C-
Grade for the break: DSo, when I saw the huge hits people were pulling out of this year's release, I figured it was time to give it a shot. However - the one blaster I bought turned out to be a huge swing and a miss.
Retail is always not the place you go hunting for huge cards. I've been back in the collecting world long enough to know that. But, with a Bowman blaster, I figure you'll at least get a refractor, or maybe a numbered paper base, or SOMETHING.
Nope. Not this blaster, at least.
All told, it was a pretty big pile of base cards. The nicest card was probably the Kenta Maeda Chrome rookie. There was one parallel - a silver paper Raimel Tapia - and a few inserts.
That's it.
The design for this year's cards is pretty busy also - I'm glad they went away from the white border theme that was pretty prevalent for too many years in a row, but this year's just a tad cluttered for my taste.
Overall, this was a dud. The low product grade may be fluid - if I get another blaster or two and do a bit better it may inch up. Again, I don't expect anything out of retail. But, for now...meh.
Grade for the product: C-
Prospects Silver: Raimel Tapia
Bowman Scouts Top 100: Andrew Benintendi
Sophomore Standouts: Noah Syndergaard
International Ink: Eddy Taveras
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