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 – Shohei Ohtani, Corey Seager, Austin Riley, Xander Bogaerts, Stephen Strasburg, Matt Chapman, Freddie Freeman, J.D. Martinez, Brandon Lowe

Rookie Cards (5) – Oneil Cruz, Josiah Gray, Aaron Ashby, Andre Jackson, Alexander Wells

Insert cards: 11 (all inserts and some base in gallery below)
Refractors (2) – Cal Raleigh, Carlos Santana
Prism Refractors (1) – Julio Urias
Sepia Refractors (2) – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., John Means
Pink Refractors (2) – Jack Flaherty, Josh Donaldson
1987 Topps (2) – Shohei Ohtani, Jesse Winker
Future Stars (1) – Nick Madrigal
Classics (1) – Pete Alonso

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My fifth and final (for now) blaster of this one that I found with a heavy discount delivered some good names on the insert front and one popular rookie, too, though this one was a perfect example of boxes with bad centering or other issues like scratching (see Ohtani) that aren't helpful this year. I didn't have some long-odds parallel find here like I did in my past breaks while my streak of not finding Paul Goldschmidt or Aaron Judge cards good for $20 in the Topps MVP Buyback promo upped itself to three here. It happens. 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. There's a lot of simple stuff to like here and if boxes remain available after the promo expires these could get cheaper and be worth the look more than they had been.

Product Grade: B (huge auto checklist hurts in my view)
Box Grade: B+ (some good finds here but damage and poor centering tampered things down some)
Fun Grade: B (see above)

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