For anyone involved in the sports card market, you often hear the phrase buyer beware. But, thanks to Jarren Duran, let’s add seller beware to the list. In the 24-hour window after Duran was named All-Star Game MVP, more than 1,000 Jarren Duran cards were sold on eBay. The overwhelming majority of them were bought in a fixed price sale. Of those thousand or so cards, … [Read more...] about Jarren Duran Cards Perk Up After All-Star MVP Performance
2020 Bowman Chrome
Mint Condition: Buys and Sells Ahead of the 2024 MLB Season
Leading Off It’s the dead of winter and that means one thing for me in the collecting world — it’s a great time to have an eye on spring training and start purchasing baseball cards while prices remain depressed in the offseason. Back by popular demand, you’ll find below a snapshot of some of the players I am buying up and staying away from. Like what you’re reading? If … [Read more...] about Mint Condition: Buys and Sells Ahead of the 2024 MLB Season
2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball to Arrive with Prospects, Rookies
2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball marks the return of the brand that's become a favorite of prospectors who chase names they hope will be of the household variety several years down the road. The product will have hobby box choices for collectors. With release day set for Wednesday, Sept. 13, Bowman Chrome will have a standard “master box” version, with two mini boxes. Each … [Read more...] about 2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball to Arrive with Prospects, Rookies
Hottest Michael Harris Prospect Cards
If you had told Atlanta Braves fans and card collectors in 2020 that someone not named Cristian Pache would be the center fielder of the future, they might have called you crazy. Pache, who hit a postseason home run in 2020 before hitting one in the regular season, was traded to the A's before the 2022 season. The Braves knew what a lot of others didn't: they had a center … [Read more...] about Hottest Michael Harris Prospect Cards
Top Jeremy Pena Prospect and Rookie Cards
When the Houston Astros did not re-sign their star shortstop Carlos Correa during the 2021 offseason, speculation began to spread about who would fill the hole. Correa will be a free agent yet again after opting out of his contract with the Twins. The Astros, however, will most certainly not be interested after the emergence of a young player who appears to be a long-term … [Read more...] about Top Jeremy Pena Prospect and Rookie Cards
Bobby Witt Jr. Prospect and Rookie Card Picks, Hottest Auctions
Sons of former major league players are en vogue around baseball nowadays. The Toronto Blue Jays are sporting three of them on their roster, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette and Cavan Biggio. It's not only Canada that features plenty of kids of former big leaguers. All-Stars such as Fernando Tatis Jr., Cody Bellinger and Joc Pederson, also had fathers who made it to the show, … [Read more...] about Bobby Witt Jr. Prospect and Rookie Card Picks, Hottest Auctions
2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball Preview
As always with what's become one of the hobby's most popular brands, 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball gives collectors plenty of chew on. There are rookies, prospects, veterans, autographs, inserts and parallels. That’s just a start. The product repeats its 2021 format with three different configurations — Hobby, Hobby Lite and HTA Choice. Each format has its own exclusives and … [Read more...] about 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball Preview
2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball Will Have 3 Configurations
2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball will offer three distinct options for collectors. The hobby box and an autograph-only HTA box are back, but this year there is a hobby Lite box that does not promise any hits. The hobby box will contain two mini-boxes, with six packs in each. Every pack will have five cards, including three base and two prospect cards. Topps is promising two … [Read more...] about 2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball Will Have 3 Configurations
Bowman Chrome X Baseball Released as StockX Exclusive
The partnership between Topps and StockX wasn’t a one-time thing. 2020 Bowman Chrome X was released on Sunday as a StockX exclusive. The two companies offered a similar collaboration last year after StockX added trading cards to its platform. 2020 Bowman Chrome X is being offered as part of StockX’s “DropX” product release method that offers brands … [Read more...] about Bowman Chrome X Baseball Released as StockX Exclusive
2020 Topps Chrome Sapphire Released
The 2020 edition of Topps Chrome Sapphire baseball is out, but it’s once again an online exclusive with limited availability. A high-end spinoff of the 2020 flagship set, Chrome Sapphire was offered to Topps Montgomery Club members on Tuesday for $299.99 per box and a limit of two boxes per order. Boxes were then offered to collectors who have accounts with Topps … [Read more...] about 2020 Topps Chrome Sapphire Released