What: 2020 Bowman Sapphire Edition baseball cards
Arrives: June 24 via Topps.com
Box basics: One autograph per 32-card box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman Sapphire Edition arrives via Topps.com tomorrow with an autograph in every box this time around and a small assortment of cards from a 150-card prospects set.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Mosaic blasters deliver big, a key 2020 Bowman Superfractor has been found, supply and demand, Project 2020, throwback break and ... "who ruined the hobby?"

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 From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes (hobby box)
Where to buy: Click here

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2020 Bowman baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What: 2020 Bowman baseball cards
Arrives: April 15 beginning May 22
Box basics: One autograph per 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case); three autographs per 12-pack jumbo box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman takes to the field in 2020 with plenty of rookies and new prospects to fill them with some new touches, some throwback inclusions with nods to 1990 and more.

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 From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes (hobby box)
Where to buy: Click here

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The Next Big Thing is here ... in more ways than one.

Circumstances of why 2020 Bowman 1st Edition cards exist are a bummer -- the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the arrival of the standard release that's an annual collecting staple of many -- but this simpler logo-enhanced version of that set is starting out of the gates perhaps hotter than anyone could have imagined. Why? Prospectors and New York Yankees fans want to get their hands on the first MLB cards of a potential future star in the first prospect release of the year.

The unusual conditions that led to this one -- Topps' primary printing location was closed with the standard Bowman cardboard left playing the waiting game -- also led to a non-traditional release format for the 1st Edition created elsewhere. This release was initially offered via Topps.com by the pack -- limit 24 packs (one box) -- and sold out quickly over the span of its three initial public offerings. A portion of the print run also was allocated to a number of Topps dealers, too, to help their businesses in this unusual and challenging time. (That said, we're buying these boxes as it's firmly on the Blowout's Most Wanted list -- keep reading.)

The Jasson Dominguez Sky Blue Foil parallel you see above? It's got an asking price of $2,999 right now on eBay -- but that may not even be the craziest development so far.

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What: 2020 Topps Heritage Minor League baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 7
Box basics: One autograph and one Relic per 19-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Collectors can turn back the clock to 1971 once again this fall with this trip down to the minor leagues where baseball's hopefuls get a big-league look on this popular line and one lucky collector once again will get a chance to suit up as a minor-leaguer on a one-day contract and later appear on a baseball card.

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What: 2019 Leaf Trinity baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 14
Box basics: Six on-card autograph cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Trinity is back for another run with "an amazing selection of both new draftees and some of the most-elite prospects in the game."

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The sets: 2019 & 2020 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes rack sets
Where to buy: Directly via USA Baseball Shop for these -- BlowoutCards.com for hobby boxes
Cards per set: 71 for 2019; 73 for 2020
Base set completion: 
68 of 68 (100 percent) for 2019; 70 of 70 (100 percent) for 2020

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What: 2020 Bowman Sterling baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 14
Box basics: Five autographs per five-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman Sterling is back for another go as an auto-per-pack product with five parallels in every one of them as well as a mix of prospects, rookies and veterans all in one colorful place once again.

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The borders are back with 2020 Bowman -- and some of the biggest possible prospects are signing on, too, to make this upcoming release arguably one of the hottest pre-orders of the year already.

Yesterday's big, big behind-the-scenes reveal? New York Yankees prospect Jasson Dominguez, an international signee who will turn 17 next week and play his first season as a pro this summer, signed for 2020 Bowman with this image released by Topps. (Update: It has since confirmed it's absolutely 2020 Bowman.) He enters the minor-league ranks at No. 38 overall on Baseball America's annual Top 100 prospects list -- that's No. 1 among players in the Yankees' system. (The others are pitchers Clarke Schmidt and Deivi Garcia.)

The switch-hitting outfielder was called “a teenage Mike Trout” in this piece by MLB.com and he topped its Top 30 Prospects list there, too, after he signed a $5.1 million deal with the Yankees. (Read more on him here.)

He's also not along as for who's signed on for 2020 Bowman ...

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What: 2019 Leaf Valiant baseball cards
Arrives: April 29
Box basics: Five autographs -- four standard, one graded -- per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Valiant is back with a new round of prospects and draft picks on a colorful rainbow of autographed cards with a high-grade slab in every single box.

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What: 2019 Leaf Flash baseball cards
Arrives: Feb. 28
Box basics: Six autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf once again brings its color and flash to the baseball diamond in a release that's got nothing but ink from top prospects and new draft picks all in one spot.

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What: 2019 Leaf Ultimate baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 27
Box basics: Six autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's "redesigned return" for this one has its lowest print run of its 2019 releases with a mix of young stars and new draft picks all in one place -- with nothing but autographs involved.

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What: 2019 Panini Contenders Draft Picks baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 2
Box basics: Six autographs per six-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Contenders hits the diamond once again with a new crop of MLB draft picks in their college uniforms, high school standouts and international signees, too, along with other prospects all in one place with an auto in every pack.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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