Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number MLB (blaster)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 9
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
63 of 200 (32 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Alex Bregman, Luis Arraez, Kenley Jansen, Jose Siri ... rough box on this front.

RC logo cards (24) – Notables include Yoshinobu Yamamoto ... see all rookies in gallery.

Insert/short-print cards: 9 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 701-up) (2) – Ben Brown (RC), Eloy Jimenez
Chrome (1) – Alek Manoah (/699)
Aqua parallel (1) – Kenta Maeda (errant White Border notation on back)
Green parallel (3) – Addison Barger, Kenley Jansen, Jordan Hicks (errant White Border notation on back)
Perfectly Programmed (1) – George Brett
Team Quads (1) – Kansas City Royals

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My third box here delivered essentially average or worse but was saved to some degree by the Yamamoto and maybe a couple cards among the inserts ... but it's definitely the worst of my trio. So ... not all blasters are over-delivering. The volume of cards stuck in the wrapper seal like several I've seen in all three of my blasters (at right) was at least not as bad this time -- only a few got that unintentional botched-parallel treatment. ... As noted last time, this months-late arrival caps the 2024 take on the colorful 1975 Topps set and was perhaps worth the delay. It's improved with an array of parallels added to the mix in this format along with an expanded Chrome presence (all cards Chromed save for the 100 in the first series) atop the rookie-dense lineup that catches up on all the notables of last season working out their sophomore kinks now.  ... There's a lot to be found here across its formats -- just hobby and blasters -- with long odds so a lot was made. That said, the Chrome shift here means more Superfractors here than in any Heritage release ever made and the strong rookies will help those be even bigger finds at times, though it also means more common Supers, too. (It's one in 4,500ish and up in all formats.) About the only bummer is how the Minis here for just this release are one in 30 packs after being a standalone release of their own -- you'd think they could have flowed more regularly here -- if not even one per pack -- to be collectable and not a dollar chase since the first series was a full release. (No Mini parallels here, either.) There's a lot to find but I may wait for prices to settle -- if they do -- as the odds on bigger stuff are long in all formats. I'll dabble with the smaller format here, conceding the hit per box (autos are roughly twice as tough in retail, while standard Relics are slightly easier ... hobby has more variety on that front) for the basic stuff here will be easily found later. Why? It's only 200 cards in a base set -- you'll land just under one set per hobby box and you get about a third of a base set in a single blaster ... that's a lot of every player here and all the notable RCs are among the basic part of the set and not the SPs. They should get more affordable over time, while the rarer stuff could be steeper as the odds are longer within a meaty print run.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: C+
Fun Grade: C+ (crimper error on Holiday hurt this one ... box would have graded higher here if clean)

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