Buzz Break: 2022 Bowman baseball cards (hobby box)

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The box: 2022 Bowman baseball cards (hobby)
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Keep reading for what was inside this one ..

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 24
Cards per box: 239

Set completion: 
99 of 100 (99 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Prospect set completion: 
72 of 150 (48 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Chrome Prospect set completion: 
45 of 150 (30 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Notables include Aaron Judge, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Mike Trout, Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Albert Pujols, Fernando Tatis Jr., Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer, Anthony Rizzo, Corey Seager, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Andrew Vaughn, Jo Adell, Freddie Freeman and others

Rookie Cards (33) – Notables include Wander Franco (RC), Reid Detmers, Spencer Strider, Jarren Duran, Seth Beer, Lars Nootbaar, Jake Burger, Brandin Marsh, Josiah Gray

Insert cards: 139 (highlights of everything in gallery below)
Prospects (72) – See a few notables in gallery.
Chrome Prospects (45) – See a few notables in gallery.
Bowman Top 100 (6) – Michael Busch, Yoelqui Cespedes, Ryan Rolison, Ronny Mauricio, Vidal Brujan, Miguel Amaya
Hi-Fi Futures (4) – Yoelqui Cespedes, Brennen Davis, C.J. Abrams, Jordan Walker
Rookie Of The Year Favorites (3) – Matt Manning, Rodolfo Castro, Luis Gil
Virtuosic Vibrations (3) – Austin Martin, Brady House, Trey Sweeney
Bowman 3D (2) – Yoelqui Cespedes, Henry Davis
Bowman Invictus (1) – Nick Yorke
Blue Pattern Prospects (1) – Trey Sweeney (/125)
Blue RayWave Chrome Prospects (1) – Niko Kavadas (/150)
Yellow Mini-Diamond Chrome Prospects (1) – Jasson Dominguez (/75)

Autographs/memorabilia: 1
Orange Refractor Chrome Prospect Autographs (1) – Wilmin Candelario (/25)

What's Buzz-worthy: That Orange auto? One in 2,534 packs. That Yellow? One in 915. The RayWave One in 101. The Blue? One in 803. That's a crazy line-up of parallels all in one box. Prices for the auto are a little all over the place on eBay -- both sold and asking -- but the sum of everything here does make this a winner right now. Maybe not a big winner but long-term there may be potential, too. ... The design and printing here seemed crisper and cleaner than some past years with stock that feels a little more sturdy, too. Aesthetically, I like it and I landed a number of key names I'd like to see though most were guys who already had prospect cards in the past. This one packs a lot of variety in a small, simple box but almost all of it is base/prospect with an insert lineup that might need some oomph to add better variety. (I don't dislike Bowman inserts but the lineup year-in, year-out seems like it could use some additional tweaks or approaches.) All in all with a box like this, though, all those little things don't matter -- it's the average boxes where smaller touches would make an average box feel better.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A+ (statistically alone, a big box ... see above)
Fun Grade: A-

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