Buzz Break: 2025 Bowman baseball cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2025 Bowman baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

Keep reading for what was inside this one ..

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 12
Cards per box: 72

Set completion: 
36 of 100 (36 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Prospect set completion: 
18 of 150 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Chrome Prospect set completion: 
12 of 150 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Bobby Witt Jr., Elly De La Cruz, Mike Trout, Jackson Chourio, Julio Rodriguez, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Corey Seager, Ozzie Albies, Manny Machado, Jackson Holliday

RC logo cards (10) – James Wood, Kumar Rocker, Hyeseong Kim, Ben Rice, Tomoyuki Sugano, Nick Yorke, Adael Amador, Orelvis Martinez, Caden Dana, Jace Jung

Insert cards: 36 (a sampling of everything in gallery below)
Prospects (18) – Anderson Brito, Dylan Fien, Kristian Campbell, Sebastian Walcott, Zack Showalter, Fabian Lopez, Wen-Hui Pan, Kevyn Castillo, Jacob Bresnahan, Esteban Gonzalez, Jack Penney, Alejandro Rosario, Jhonayker Ugarte, Khadim Diaw, Cobb Hightower, Aron Estrada, Robert Calaz, Cade Horton
Chrome Prospects (10) – Jac Caglianone, Ichiro Cano Hernandez, Jacob Bresnahan, Alex Mooney, Lucas Ramirez, Winston Santos, Wen-Hui Pan, Fabian Lopez, Fernando Cruz, Druw Jones
Bowman Top 100 Prospects (1) – Colt Emerson
Greatness Loading (1) – Hagen Smith
Rookie Of The Year Favorites (1) – Drew Romo
Rockstar Rookies (1) – Spencer Schwellenbach
Very Important Prospects (1) – Leo De Vries
Chrome Prospects Reptilian Refractor parallel (1) – Walker Jenkins
Fuchsia parallel (1) – Bo Bichette (/299)
Chrome Prospects Blue Shimmer Refractor parallel (1) – Aroon Escobar (/150)

Autographs/memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: It's been more than a year since I opened some standard Bowman, so a new year's release means, well, here's my one blaster. The look and feel is in the wheelhouse -- no real surprises there -- while the insert lineup here includes a little more variety vs. past years. (Fewer of the sets we see seemingly every year, with sone new looks in there, too.) The base set, base prospects and Chrome prospects formula is still in play, of course, and this box broke down almost exactly like last year's and it was a pretty standard break until I landed both serial-numbered cards in the same pack followed by a Jac Caglianone Chrome (though his debut was in Draft last year) and then some other good rookie names to find on inserts and base.To top that off, Bichette is perhaps my top everyday veteran I collect so the box gets an A, though it still didn't really wow me. Why? They still need to amp these up more -- yes, more -- since it's so reliant on base-like cards and parallels. Odds-wise, the Bichette is one in 356 packs and the Blue Shimmer is one in 450 ... how did they land in the same pack and, really, should parallels truly be that tough to find if numbered? Should stuff like these cards be one per two cases and one per three cases? Nah, and the simple answer here should be add more stuff and ensure the collation isn't wonky ... make all boxes stronger and more people will buy more than one. Or, as I said last year, make more variety, cough up more ... a larger set would still help balance it all out, too. ... Retail is the home of some exclusive Green parallels and can include autographs, too, but I wouldn't expect even numbered cards in every blaster. I think that would entice more rippers if they did -- or at least something that stands out as different from the rest of the box. There are a lot of long-odds cards that are interesting in this one -- and they're long in hobby boxes, too -- but perhaps tiering some of those rarities into an easy group and a tough group might make for better box to box finds that people can, you know, collect.

Product Grade: B+
Box Grade: A (two rarer parallels in same pack ... that aren't even statistically supposed to be found one per case)
Fun Grade: B+

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