First Buzz: 2023 Bowman baseball cards (updated)

What: 2023 Bowman baseball cards
Arrives: April 26
Box basics: One auto per hobby box; three autos per jumbo box ... see new mega box details at bottom.
Odds: Click here
Checklist: Click here ... Click here for 1st Edition
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman returns next month with a new roster of fresh faces plenty of color and, of course, autographs for highly touted prospects.

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

The Basics: The base sets here once again will include 100 stars and rookies as well as 150 prospects with Chrome parallels in play. A full checklist was released in advance (link above), though, and in some instances there will be die-cut variation cards to be found. ... Among the inserts will be Bowman Scouts Top 100, Modern Prospect (20 cards), ROY Favorites (15 cards), Sights on September (20 cards), Bowman Spotlights (20 cards), Bowman Invicta (25 cards). Chrome autographs will be found for rookies and prospects as well as have a standard-stock retail ink chase, while there also will be ink for some cards in insert sets -- ROY Favorites, Modern Prospect, Top 100, Invicta, Sights -- as well as a dual-auto set. There also will be a Bowman Ultimate Autograph booklet (/10) with 25 autos. ... Get all the details on who's signing at the link above. More details will be added here if they are made available in advance of the release.

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Update (April 6): The full details are now here with parallels (see gallery) presented in full for base and Chrome. Top 100 (one in four packs), Modern Prospect (one in six) and ROY Favorites (one in eight) will have Atomic (/150), Aqua (/125), Gold (/50), Orange (/25), Red (/5) and 1/1 Superfractor parallels. Those same parallels also will be found for the Sights on September (one in eight), Bowman Spotlights (one in 18) and Bowman Invicta (one in 24) as well. ... Autographs will have a boatload of parallels, too, (check out the gallery) with insert autos also to be found. There will be ink for Top 100 (/99) with Gold, Red and Supers. ROY Favorites ink (/150) will have those colors and add Orange. Sights on September ink (/TBD) all only have Supers, while dual-autos (/25) also will only have Supers. Also in the mix will be an prep All-American autos as well as buyback ink. ... A new chase here will be Bowman Pearl packs with four cards inside -- Pearl Refractors -- and these packs will be found one in every 10 cases.

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Update (May 9): There will be mega boxes for this one with those also being made available via hobby channels this year. There will be four standard Bowman packs and two Chrome packs with the mega box texture as seen here. That one will be made up of 50 prospects and 50 other notables with each having Purple (/250), Aqua (/225), Pink (/199), Navy (/175), Blue (/150), Green (/99), Yellow (/75), Gold (/50), Orange (/25), Red (/5) and 1/1 Black. Some players will have image variations with those only having a Black parallel. The Sights on September and ROY Favorites inserts also will be found here with Purple, Pink, Blue, Green, Gold, Orange, Red and Black parallels at same volumes. ... Autographs will be found for prospects, rookies (/99) and prospect image variations (/25) with  Blue, Green, Orange and Black parallels for the prospects. Rookies will only have Orange and Black and the same will be in play for variations.

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