Monday, August 1, 2011

2011 Bowman Platinum pack break

Since I haven't opened a lot of packs of cards lately, I decided to stop at Target on the way home and see if they had some new Bowman Platinum.  I decided on 2 of the value packs.  3 regular packs and a value pack exclusive 3 purple prospect cards.

From what I've seen from my small sample size break, I like what I see so far.  Last year's product wasn't terrible but this year's is really nice looking. All of the base cards are refractors so thats something I haven't seen before.

Heres some of the highlights of the break:

A bunch of base cards, most notably Aroldis Chapman, Jason Heyward, Tim Lincecum and Albert Pujols.
A few prospects: Manny Banuelos and Tyler Skaggs
3 Prospect x-Fractors (these look great!): Jonathan Singleton, Eduardo Escobar and Kyle Russell
6 Purple Prospects (I'm not crazy about the color of these): Brad Brach, Brad Holt, Matt Lipka, Dustin Ackley, Jared Mitchell and Ronnie Welty

I got one gold parallel: Aroldis Chapman

and I was lucky enough to pull an autograph card:

Hayden Simpson.  According to Baseball Reference, he hasn't had a great first pro season but he still has plenty of time to turn it around.



I guess I did pretty well for just a few packs.  I'll probably pick up another pack or two in the near future and see if I can get lucky again.

4 comments:

  1. I'd be interested in trading for the Holt if it's up for grabs. Shoot me an email!

    joemiench @yahoo.com

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  2. Hey! May you set aside the Kyle Russell X-Fractor for me? I'm sure we'll trade again in the future at some point.

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  3. It seems a lot of people are having early success pulling hits from retail rack packs.

    I'd be interested in the Heyward and Lipka cards. I didn't get any Orioles in the rack pack I opened, but I'll make sure to find something for you if you want to trade.

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  4. I'd love the Chapman and Simpson auto. I'll send you an e-mail. Thanks.

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