Buzz Break: 2021 Panini Contenders baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2021 Panini Contenders baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Keep reading for a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 30
Base set completion: 
11 of 100 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Pete Alonso, Giancarlo Stanton, Adolis Garcia, Corbin Burnes, Yu Darvish, Jack Flaherty

Insert cards: 18 (everything from box in gallery below) 
Green parallels (6) – Bo Bichette, Anthony Rizzo, Gerrit Cole, Ketel Marte, Buster Posey, Evan Longoria
Optic parallels (2) – Giancarlo Stanton, Nick Castellanos
Optic Silver parallels (1) – Trey Mancini
Optic Red Wave Ticket parallels (2) – Nick Castellanos, Giancarlo Stanton
Optic Green Wave Ticket parallels (1) – Ryan McMahon
First Rounders (1) – Colton Cowser
Rookie Contenders (1) – Hyeon-jong Yang
Rookie Of The Year Conteters (1) – Chris Rodriguez
Winning Tickets (1) – Joe Adell
Future Stars (1) – Austin Martin
MVP Contenders (1) – Trea Turner

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Rookie Ticket Jerseys (1) – Luis Patino

What's Buzz-worthy: Another bargain-bin blaster break here and, well, this was pretty much average ... but at least there's an actual hit each time. ... This is one that I skipped back when it originally arrived perhaps mostly because I wasn't worried about shelf-cleaning flippers for this one -- they did and I let them, figuring I'd find more later. Later is now. This one is a bit stronger than its predecessor -- I did that one and it didn't wow me -- with this box with a guaranteed hit like last time but also having Optichome cards to ramp things up with some plastic and then three Wave parallels within those. This particular box? Once again too much duplicate action between the parallels put a damper on the rip along with some players who probably have not aged that well since this one arrived. I do like the variety of the inserts here. If you need a quick rip, I think this one is worth the look with the low price -- maybe a small lot of three or four blasters at once at the discount price -- since there's so much possible here. (The inclusions panel on the side of the box is comically un-readable there's so much.) With the smaller set size and a lot of parallels,  there can be some potential here along with the guaranteed hits that also can be autographs. One really good find might pay for a few blasters.

Product Grade: B+
Box Grade: C
Fun Grade: C+ (good variety of stuff but still very heavy on parallels that holds it back in terms of the feel for a small-box break)

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