Buzz Break: 2020 Topps Chrome Update MLB cards (mega box)

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The box: 2020 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards (mega box)
Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here (when available)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 
23 of 100 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Trout, Gleyber Torres, Aaron Judge, David Ortiz, Eric Davis, Joey Votto, Buster Posey, Yasmani Grandal, Kole Calhoun, Brock Holt, Starlin Castro

Rookie Cards (10) – Kyle Lewis, Nick Solak, Aristides Aquino, Josh Taylor, Cody Stashak, Erick Mejia, Phillip Diehl, Cy Sneed, Nik Turley, Yoshi Tsutsugo

Insert/short-print cards: 5 (all cards from box in gallery below)
X-Fractors (1) – Todd Frazier (/99)
A Numbers Game (2) – Johnny Bench, Robin Yount
Decade's Next (2) – Bo Bichette, Gleyber Torres

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: Better late than never, right? Buzz got his hands on a pair of these Target-only boxes just last week after they may have started installing limits and canceling duplicated bot orders (finally!) and it was a pretty solid showing of past and present stars in this one ... though the odds here are somewhat stingy. That numbered Refractor I pulled? One in  102 packs here ... that's tougher than a standard autograph at one in 41. (I'd rather have ink.) The inserts both over-delivered here as they are listed at one in four ... so that explains why I landed more inserts than last year in this particular box. The checklist (link above) is a pretty loaded one and that should help things out here when you get lean boxes -- you will have a mess of rookies and big names from past All-Star events. This one was perhaps one that over-delivered based on those odds but I can say that I didn't get to revisit this one (or Update) as much as I might normally have last year. (I opened five of these megas, for example, last year.) As much as I like it -- and I do with the photo-driven approach here -- I've admittedly mentally moved on to 2021. That might bite me later with all the good rookies in this one but I'll probably just look for newer stuff that's to come soon vs. more of this one. This is a good grab and stash box ... not to necessarily flip but to rip later on as there are some good possibilities with RCs. I think this one could use a lot more color -- load 'em up -- since it's its own contained entity at retail and that would make this a really, really fun rip if it had that presence given the odds on ink. You can land printing plates, autos, Supers and more ... all here but with odds that seem too long.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A (that parallel is a tougher pull ... see above)
Fun Grade: B

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