2017 Chrome Baseball
24 packs - 4 cards per pack
2 Chrome autos per box
I received the following:
Autos
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Chad Pinder
Tyler Austin
Both on card autos - both blue Sharpee - both very well done. Also, the auto'd cards are printed on a bit thicker card. They are stiffer and really look good!
#ed Colored Parallels
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Rougned Odor - Purple - #ed to 299
Trea Turner - Blue - #ed to 150
Refractor / Shimmer Refractor
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8 refractors
4 shimmer refractors
The regular refractors are clearly marked 'refractor' -- not so with the shimmer refractor. 2 of my 4 were a bit hard to distinguish and had to be held at the correct angle to determine if it actually was a shimmer refractor...
Freshman Flash / Gold '87
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Freshman Flash - Bellinger and Dahl
87 Gold - Seager, Tanaka, Correa, Bregman
Future Stars
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Syndergaard
Seager
Fulmer
This is one of my favorite inserts this year - very colorful -- looks great!
Then and Now
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Joe Panik
Base
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70 unique base cards received of the set of 200 -- 35% of the base set. A minimum of 3 boxes should be needed to have the opportunity to complete a base set.
Chrome is a semi-premium set. The price seems to be pretty close to what is acceptable -- boxes both regular and jumbo (5 autos in a box ) are jumping off of the shelves at both of the card stores here in O'do.
Chrome is an issue that is prime pickins for the rookie collector and the player collector. There are a number of parallels available - red, blue, purple, pink, black and white negative refractor, shimmer, - some of these will be available in the hobby boxes and some in retail blasters.
Overall grade A+
Go buy several boxes - pull a Judge auto or Bellinger auto and do your happy dance -- then send the Rays parallels to me!
Duane
