Buzz Break: 2018 Topps Holiday Box baseball cards

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The box: 2018 Topps Holiday Box baseball cards
Where to buy: Click here

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 98
Base set completion: 
92 of 200 (46 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Aaron Judge, Manny Machado, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, Corey Seager, Blake Snell, Dansby Swanson, Jose Ramirez, Kyle Schwarber, Alex Bregman, Nolan Arenado, Joey Votto, Paul Goldschmidt, Jacob deGrom, Buster Posey, Francisco Lindor, Yu Darvish, Javier Baez, Ichiro Suzuki, Bryce Harper

Rookie Cards (23) – Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Ozzie Albies, Miles Mikolas, Fernando Romero, Tyler Mahle, Joey Lucchesi, J.P. Crawford, Gleyber Torres, Amed Rosario, Scott Kingery, Christian Villaneuva, Mike Soroka, Jordan Hicks, Willie Calhoun, Nick Kingham, Jack Flaherty, J.D. Davis, Dominic Smith, Francisco Mejia, Garrett Cooper, Chris Stratton, Tyler O'Neill

Insert cards: 5 (all in gallery below with some base)
Metallic Snowflake (5) – Victor Robles, Rougned Odor, Domingo Santana, Salvador Perez, Blake Snell

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Holiday Relic (1) – Mookie Betts

What's Buzz-worthy: There's a chance you still might be seeing these around some card aisles (if not hit the link above) and they're a very safe buy with some long-term potential in my mind as they guarantee a hit every time -- with ink possible, though rare -- and a stacked crop of rookies and stars. The RCs here alone seem like they could be safe in the long-term as they shouldn't have as high of a production volume as the standard Topps cards. Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani and Gleyber Torres were found here and a number of others, too. ... The overall format of this one is in line with past versions -- a 200-card, rookie- and star-packed base set with glittery parallels to mix things up and then a hit. The parallels could end up being a longer-term sleeper here as it will take 40 boxes with perfect collation to build a set -- see the checklist here -- and you can do the math when it comes to finding any particular card. The key rookies here will be the bigs for the parallels while the basic cards should be relatively available as you get almost half of a set in a box. There are some much-rarer gold parallels and the hits also have parallels and autograph versions at long odds. Your easiest autograph is one in 297 packs (30 boxes) so those might make for interesting auctions as there is ink from Adrian Beltre, Anthony Rizzo, Bryce Harper, Jose Altuve, Juan Soto, Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuña Jr., Rhys Hoskins, Shohei Ohtani and Walker Buehler among others. The auto Relic list is also strong with a Santa Claus card worked in alongside the likes of Aaron Judge, Carlos Correa, Jose Altuve, Trout, Albies, Bryant, Acuña and others.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A
Fun Grade: B+

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