He's a 29-year-old, 5-foot-11 second baseman-shortstop who's in his fifth season as a big-leaguer. He's a Minnesota Twin with Defensive Player of the Year and All-Star honors.

He's also a guy who, thanks to a three-homer game last night while batting lead-off, has a career-high 38 homers this season.

He's Brian Dozier -- and he's also not the easiest guy to find on baseball cards.

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More than 200 players have made their MLB debuts so far this season and one of the latest is the hottest prospect in baseball, Boston Red Sox third baseman Yoan Moncada.

He got his first hit last night in just his second game and that got us wondering which newcomers you think have been best. Take the Buzz Poll below ...

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What's Buzzing Today: Cowboys maildays, Donruss football, a loaded Topps Archives Signature case, non-sports gems & more.

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What's Buzzing Today: Busting 2016 Bowman Platinum, Big Macs, Donruss soccer, Prizm NBA and some birthday non-sports action.

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What's Buzzing Today: Old wax, Bowman Platinum, Topps Archives Signature Series collation, favorite wrestlers & more.

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The mystery of who'll be signing for 2016 Bowman Chrome is now over.

How? Topps released the final checklist for the product on Thursday in advance of its arrival on Wednesday with a new configuration (or two).

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The No. 1 pick has a new -- and exclusive -- home.

Topps revealed on Wednesday that it has signed Philadelphia Phillies prospect Mickey Moniak to an exclusive deal for his cards and memorabilia. This also means his autographs will only be found in upcoming Topps products and Bowman lines such as 2016 Bowman Draft. He'll also appear in 2016 Bowman's Best.

“As the top overall pick of this year's MLB Draft, we’re ecstatic to have Mickey headlining our 2016 Bowman Draft release,” said Bowman brand manager Zvee Geffen. “The Bowman brands are home to the game’s future stars and, as Mickey certainly fits that billing, he epitomizes the best of our brand.”

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What's Buzzing Today: College cards, big breaks and "the multi-player Rookie Card problem."

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It's a simple idea -- one autographed buyback per box -- with a showcase of nostalgia and on-card ink with plenty of variety.

It's 2016 Topps Archives Signature Series, and it arrived today.

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It's been bugging many of us for a while this season, but it's given the defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals something to rally behind.

It's the Rally Mantis and today, for 24 hours only, it gets a baseball card.

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What's Buzzing Today: Retro rips, too many cards, people "jacking up prices," looking forward to looking back.

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What: 2016 Leaf Metal Draft baseball cards
Arrives: November/December
Box basics: Six autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards brings back Metal with the lowest print run in the history of the product -- fewer than 200 cases will be made.

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What's Buzzing Today: Jason Crosby's Garbage Pail Kids sketches, Dak Prescott and Panini Origins, Diamond Kings, Colin Kaepernick and Mike Trout vs. Ted Williams.

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The box: 2016 Bowman Platinum baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: Initially only available via Walmart.

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard packs plus one Ice parallel pack)
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 32
Base set completion: 
16 of 100 (16 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Mookie Betts, Jose Abreu, Josh Donaldson, Noah Syndergaard, Giancarlo Stanton

Rookie Cards (5) – Rob Refsnyder, Seung-hwan Oh, Aaron Nola, Hector Olivera, Kyle Schwarber

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The Class of 2010 when it comes to Bowman baseball cards continues to be a deep one as new stars emerge atop the top arrivals of the past.

Back then it was Stephen Strasburg all day long -- well, at least until his injury -- and since then names like Aroldis Chapman, Max Kepler, Miguel Sano, Shelby Miller and now Gary Sanchez have emerged.

All of those autos and more can be found inside cases of 2010 Bowman Chrome baseball cards and it's one of a few cases that can be found as part of a weekend flash sale over on the mothership.

How much? Keep reading.

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What's Buzzing Today: New products, Bowman Draft Super Jumbo news, big cases & more.

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The box: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 96
Base set completion: 
70 of 200 (35 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Francisco Lindor, Jose Fernandez, David Wright, Buster Posey, Jose Altuve, Josh Donaldson, Manny Machado

Rookie Cards (24) – Trevor Story, Tyler White, Blake Snell, Ross Stipling, Aaron Blair, Jose Berrios, Jorge Lopez, Kyle Schwarber, Seung-Hwan Oh, Jeremy Hazelbaker, Brian Johnson, Rob Refsnyder, Gary Sanchez, Zach Lee

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game All-American Classic baseball cards
Arrives: December 2016
Box basics: Eight autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes the Perfect Game All-Americans and creates their own brand with patch autos and Metal autos in boxes that have nothing but the hits inside.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Arrives: October 2016
Box basics: 25 autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf makes the Perfect Game a big box with nothing but hits and one of the most-limited ones, too, with just 99 cases made.

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It might be the biggest (Papi) day in Topps Now history.

For the first time, Today's Topps Now lineup includes autographs that can be purchased outright -- David Ortiz -- and Relics for the hard-hitting New York Yankees rookie Gary Sanchez on the same day as part of a 14-card offering.

Ortiz autos start at $199.99 for his card limited to 99 copies all the way up to a $999.99 1/1 card that is already sold out.

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What's Buzzing Today: One ridiculous 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter case ... and plenty more.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big finds and big rips ... and a Rip Card debate.

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The box: 2016 Topps Bunt baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 36
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 252
Base set completion: 200 of 200 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 21

Rookie Cards (21) – Aledmys Diaz, Corey Seager, Blake Snell, Trea Turner, Henry Owens, Aaron Nola, Trevor Story, Jose Berrios, Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Sano, Luis Severino, Julio Urias, Stephen Piscotty, Peter O'Brien, Jon Gray, Michael Conforto, Jeremy Hazelbaker, Byung-Ho Park, Jose Peraza, Kenta Maeda, Nomar Mazara.

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What: 2016 Panini Prime Cuts baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 26
Box basics: Five autographs or memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case via two inners)

What's buzz-worthy: After four years on the bench, Prime Cuts returns with nothing but hits from stars of the present as well as the past in this high-end brand.

Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images.

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What: 2016 Topps Chrome Sapphire Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Wednesday (Aug. 24)
Box basics: Thirteen bonus parallels and two Superfractors per set

The Basics: The 700-card 2016 Topps set gets Chromed for a factory set limited to only 250 copies that will only initially be sold via Topps.com. The sets will be Blue Sapphire for the 65th anniversary of Topps baseball cards. More details will come soon -- that or at least the cards will. ... One important nugget? Players who have Superfractors in 2016 Topps Chrome will not have a Superfractor in this release. While card numbers are not the same between Topps and Topps Chrome, that helps keep things simpler for those eyeing Supers and helps the math work out on the production run. Update: The sets are now live on Topps.com with a price of $1,500 per set.

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