Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number MLB (blaster)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 9
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
63 of 200 (32 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Fernando Tatis Jr., Chris Sale, Randy Arozarena, Teoscar Hernandez

RC logo cards (31) – Notables include Jack Leiter, Jackson Merrill, Shota Imanaga, Jackson Chourio, Jackson Holliday, Wyatt Langford, Orion Kerkering ... see all rookies in gallery.

Insert/short-print cards: 9 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 701-up) (2) – Jordan Beck (RC), Pedro Pages (RC)
Aqua parallel (1) – Oliver Dunn (errant White Border notation on back)
Chrome parallel (1) – Spencer Horwitz (/699)
Green parallel (3) – Logan Gilbert, Alexander Canario, Kai-Wei Teng (errant White Border notation on back)
Award Winner (1) – Corbin Carroll
Rookie Performers (1) – Paul Skenes

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: This might be the final day of the MLB season and that's one of the starting pitchers on the box, so I figured I'd rip and post this one ... it delivered a run of the top rookies here in some form or fashion (Skenes as an insert) but with a lot less Chrome than my overloaded box last time. (I had 12 inserts in my last box with a trio of Chromes with more flash.) This one? Still decent thanks to the rookies and the fact that I found it on the cheaper side of things. (Standard RCs are all pretty cheap here months after its delayed arrival.) This one shows how this remains a rip with potential, though, as the base set is absolutely juiced with RCs -- just short of half of the box and there if you count rookies among the inserts. That makes me want to rip into more of this one. ... As noted before, it's improved over some past recent years of Heritage with an array of parallels added to the mix in this format along with an expanded Chrome presence (all cards Chromed save for the 100 in the first series) atop the rookie-dense lineup that catches up on all the notables of last season working out their sophomore kinks now. ... There's a lot to be found here across its formats -- just hobby and blasters -- with long odds ... so a lot was made. That said, the Chrome shift here means more Superfractors here than in any Heritage release ever made and the strong rookies will help those be even bigger finds at times, though it also means more common Supers, too. (It's one in 4,500ish and up in all formats.) About the only bummer is how the Minis here for just this release are one in 30 packs after being a standalone release of their own -- you'd think they could have flowed more regularly here -- if not even one per pack -- to be collectable and not a dollar chase since the first series was a full release. ... It's only 200 cards in a base set -- you'll land just under one set per hobby box and you get about a third of a base set in a single blaster ... that's a lot of every player here and all the notable RCs are among the basic part of the set and not the SPs. They should get more affordable over time, while the rarer stuff could be steeper as the odds are longer within a meaty print run.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A- (good run of rookies)
Fun Grade: B+

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