Buzz Break: 2021 Bowman baseball cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2021 Bowman baseball cards (blaster box)
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Keep reading for what was inside this one ..

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 12
Cards per box: 72

Set completion: 
38 of 100 (38 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Prospect set completion: 
17 of 150 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Chrome Prospect set completion: 
12 of 150 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Shohei Ohtani, Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Mookie Betts, Bryce Harper

Rookie Cards (13) – Leody Taveras, Joey Bart, Jazz Chisholm, Casey Mize, Deivi Garcia, Evan White, Ryan Mountcastle, Anderson Tejada, Nate Pearson, Cristian Javier, Brailyn Marquez, Jake Cronenworth, Luis Campusano

Insert cards: 35 (highlights of everything in gallery below)
Prospects (18) – Julio Rodriguez, Nolan Gorman, Blaze Jordan, Andrew Vaughn, Oswald Peraza, Eddy Diaz, Hyun-Il Choi, Jeisson Rosario, Austin Hendrick, James Beard, Dillon Dingler, Garrett Mitchell, Daniel Espino, Jordyn Adams, Terrin Vavra, Nick Yorke, Yusniel Diaz, D.L. Hall
Chrome Prospects (12) – Austin Martin, Aaron Sabato, Trent Deveaux, Jarren Duran, Nolan Gorman, Jeremy Peña, Jeter Downs, Daniel Lynch, Michael Toglia, Dax Fulton, Clayton Beeter, Nick Lodolo
1991 Bowman (1) – Ronald Acuña Jr.
Bowman Scouts Top 100 (1) – Nick Lodolo
ROY Favorites (1) – Sixto Sanchez
Talent Pipeline (1) – Dodgers
Fuchsia (1) – Gleyber Torres (/299)

Autographs/memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: Remember how this one was all that and a bag of chips just a couple years ago with people clearing blasters off the shelves and racking up wins? Well, all those guys are still in there -- I found this on the cheap -- and you can land some box formats at a fraction of what they had been ... and that's a good thing if you're a collector or a dabbler playing catch-up. Now, you might not be able to land thousands for your rare autos of a guy like Austin Martin but there are still big cards in there -- and had I landed a better name on my Fuchsia parallel (one in 240 packs) I could have had yet another box where one card paid for it all. This time? Not so much -- but that happens. ... These are the home to retail-only Green parallels (none in this box) and there are a few autograph formats to find here -- see the odds in the gallery -- but ultimately these are a pretty dry break with long odds. But if you win that might help some players' values ... even now. That, to a degree, is a good thing except when you consider that Bowman print runs on the basic stuff (base and Chrome) figure to be among the meatier sets out there ... so if you don't land a top name these will be riskier in the long run. ... The design this year is strong if you ask me. It's a little rigid but there are a lot of touches that help one's eye bounce around the design well and not make it overbearing. All in all, I don't prospect all that hard but this was a brand that I think feels pretty good design-wise and still has good potential.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A- (thanks to the rarer parallel and some good names among basics ... without that color a grade lower)
Fun Grade: B

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