2015 Bowman Draft Baseball is coming and Topps is promising a “reinvigorated” product when it arrives. Bowman Draft features base cards and autographs of the prospects who are seen in their MLB uniforms for the first time. A full checklist is below.
Topps has announced plans to have Super Jumbo boxes with five autographed cards in addition to its regular hobby and jumbo boxes.
A full product checklist and release dates are below.
Each standard pack will have seven cards: five ’15 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Draft Picks/Top Prospects cards plus two Bowman Chrome Draft Picks/Top Prospects.
Expect 24-pack Hobby boxes to cost $60-75 upon release with one autographed card per box. Jumbo boxes will have 12 packs of 32 cards (including nine Chrome) at around $125 with three autographs in each and the Super Jumbos will have ten packs per box with 60 cards in each (17 will be Chrome) at a price likely to fall between $180 and $200.
The first two picks in the MLB Draft, Dansby Swanson and Brendan Rodgers, will have on-card autographs in the product.
New components inside 2015 Bowman Draft include:
Teams of Tomorrow Die-Cut Insert Cards which will pair members of the 2015 MLB Draft class with top prospects from the same organization. They’ll have parallel version including:
- Gold Parallel: sequentially numbered.
- Red Parallel: sequentially numbered to 5.
- SuperFractor Parallel: numbered 1/1.
Draft Dividends Insert/Autograph Cards highlighting players who were originally drafted out of high school, opted to pursue collegiate careers and whose choices paid “dividends”. Parallels will include:
- Autograph Parallel – sequentially numbered.
- Red Autograph Parallel – sequentially numbered to 5.
Base cards will have these parallels:
- Blue Border: sequentially numbered.
- Sky Blue: sequentially numbered.
- Green Border: sequentially numbered.
- Gold Border: sequentially numbered.
- Orange Border: sequentially numbered to 25.
- Red Border: sequentially numbered to 5.
- Metallic Border: numbered 1/1.
- Printing Plates: numbered 1/1.
Chrome base cards include:
- Refractor
- Sky Blue Refractor
- Blue Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Green Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Gold Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Orange Refractor: sequentially numbered to 25.
- Red Refractor: sequentially numbered to 5.
- SuperFractor: numbered 1/1.
- Printing Plates: numbered 1/1.
Chrome Draft Pick Autographs will feature on-card autographs of the top 2015 MLB draftees with these parallels:
- Refractor
- Purple Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Green Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Gold Refractor: sequentially numbered.
- Orange Refractor: sequentially numbered to 25
- Red Refractor: sequentially numbered to 5
- SuperFractor: numbered 1/1.
- Printing Plates: numbered 1/1
Autographed content includes:
Prime Pairings Autographs: Pairing elite 2015 MLB Draft picks with top prospects who share common bonds with Red Refractors randomly inserted and sequentially numbered to 5.
All-America Game Autograph Cards: Autographed cards from previous All-America high school showcase games. Sequentially numbered with Gold Framed Parallels (1/1).
Additional features include:
Draft Night Insert Cards featuring players from the 2015 draft with Red (# to 5) parallels.
Top of the Class Box Toppers: Featuring the biggest names from the 2015 MLB Draft class on an oversized chrome card. Sequentially numbered. Parallels include:
- Orange Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 25.
- Red Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 5.
- SuperFractor Parallel: numbered 1/1.
- Orange Autographed Parallel: sequentially numbered to 25.
2015 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game Relic cards will have game-used jersey swatches from that game. All will be numbered with Orange parallels numbered to 25.
Release date for 2015 Bowman Draft Baseball (Regular and Jumbo) is December 9. The Super Jumbo boxes will hit stores on December 18.
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