First Buzz: 2022 Bowman Draft baseball cards

What: 2022 Bowman Draft baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 14 21
Box basics: No autos guaranteed in 10-pack LITE boxes (16 per case); three autos per 12-pack hobby boxes (eight per case); five autos per super-jumbo box (six per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Bowman Draft drops in just seven 14 days with a new year's worth of prospects in play.

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The Basics: The super-jumbo packs are back with 120 cards apiece -- 76 base cards and 33 Chromes along with eight Refractors, two inserts (one Blackjack and one Heir Apparent) and an auto -- that's 600 cards per box, while standard (jumbo) packs include 23 base, seven Chrome and two Refractors. Hobby LITE packs will have 11 base cards, four Chromes and one Refractor with five Black & White RayWave Refractors per box.

The base set against will consist of 200 players with a rainbow that includes Sky Blue (/499), Purple (/250), Aqua (/199), Blue (/150), Green (/99), Gold (/50), Red (/5) and 1/1 Black as well as printing plates just like last year. On the Chrome side there will be standard Refractors, Purple (/250), Sparkle, Aqua Lava (/199), Green (/99), Green Sparkle (/99), Yellow Lava (/75), Gold (/50), Red (/5) and 1/1 Superfractors and printing plates. There will once again be image variations. ... Among the inserts will be Blackjack, Bowman Draft Night, Invicta, Mood Ring and Heir Apparent cards. The first two will have standard Refractors (/250) as well as Green (/99), Gold (/50), Red (/5) and 1/1 Supers and Heir cards also will have those. Invicta will have Atomic (/150) Gold, Red and Supers, while Mood Ring will only have Red and Supers.

Chrome Prospect autos will have the following rainbow -- Refractor (/499), Purple (/250), Aqua Lava (/199), Blue (/150), Blue Wave (/150), Green (/99), Sparkle (/71), Gold (/50), Gold Wave (/50), Red (/5), Red Lava (/5) Red Wave (/5) and 1/1 Supers as well as 1/1 Black Wave and printing plates. Again, just like last year. Image variation autos will be limited to only 99 copies. ... They will be joined by Heir Apparent auto parallels (/99) with Reds and Supers for parallels. Also inked will be Mood Ring (/5) with Supers. Also in the lineup will be Franchise Futures duals (/99) with Gold, Red and Supers and those same parallels will be found for Draft Night autos (/99), Class of 2022 autos (/250) and Invicta autos (/99). A limited find will be Positioned for Excellence auto books (/10) worth six players at each position. They will have Red and Super versions. Also in the mix will be prep All-American game autos.

Only found in hobby boxes will be Orange base (all /25) and Orange Chrome parallels as well as Sky Blue Chrome Refractors. Orange also will be exclusive for inserts in hobby with all colors mixed in. For ink, hobby-exclusive autos will include Black (/75), Orange (/25) Chrome parallels for prospects and Orange for Franchise Duals (/25). ... Only found in LITE boxes will be Black & White RayWave Refractors and those boxes only autos will be Black & White RayWave sigs. Ink will be limited to only those, while parallels of almost all types could be found.

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Update (Dec. 14): First Edition boxes are live for this one with 24 10-card packs per box. Parallels include Sky Blue, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Orange, Red and Rainbow. Chrome autos are one in 2017 packs for this one.

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