Buzz Break: 2022 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2022 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here (a few formats)

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

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 4 or 5
Cards in this box: 36
Base set completion: 
24 of 220 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Joey Votto, Yordan Alvarez, Patrick Wisdom, Giancarlo Stanton, Jacob deGrom, Ian Happ, Ryan Mountcastle

Rookie Cards (5) – Gavin Sheets, Lars Nootbaar, Tony Santillan, Hoy Park, Max Kranick

Insert cards: 11 (all inserts and some base in gallery below)
Refractors (2) – Max Fried, George Springer
Prism Refractors (1) – Curtis Terry
Sepia Refractors (2) – Ronald Acuña Jr., Jesus Luzardo
Pink Refractors (2) – Pete Alonso, Kyle Tucker
Purple Refractors (1) – Jose Ramirez (/250)
1987 Topps (2) – Jose Abreu, Jarren Duran
Heart of The City (1) – Jose Altuve

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My fourth of five blasters picked up on sale for this one once again beat the odds as Purples are one in 250 packs. Meanwhile, the star presence here among the inserts was perhaps above average to help out a pretty lean base star presence. (Statistically some of those guys are stars but perhaps not on cardboard.) My streak of not finding Paul Goldschmidt or Aaron Judge cards good for $20 in the Topps MVP Buyback promo began here -- that's two in a row without -- but that's OK. They'll flow but not every time. Blasters do deliver a lot of shots at parallels, making these perhaps a great spot to do some chasing, though, and I think while the buyback program exists, these blasters might be your best buy out there ... if you can find them on the cheaper side. Why? You never know how those Refractors or color might flow and you get several per box here ... with Judge and Goldschmidt possible in all those spots.

Product Grade: B (huge auto checklist hurts in my view)
Box Grade: A- (one long-odds find and some good names among the parallels)
Fun Grade: B

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