I more or less overlooked Topps’ annual Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects set when it came out last November.
I got a few cards in a Christmas gift, and a few more in a birthday gift… and I started to wonder how close I was to completing the Mets team set. It turns out that I have most of the ones that matter to me.
The Mets have six players in the 130-card draft picks portion of the base set, one in the 45-card rookies part and one in the 45-card top prospects segment. They have the same eight players in the Chrome versions, and then there are three “common” inserts. (Here’s a link to the full checklist on Topps’ website.)
I’ve got the eight regular cards plus the Kevin Plawecki insert – I’ll have to find the Matt Harvey & Rafael Montero inserts at some point.
Draft Picks
BDPP1 Dominic Smith
BDPP38 Andrew Church
BDPP39 Casey Meisner
BDPP40 Ivan Wilson
BDPP72 Luis Guillorme
BDPP107 Gaither Bumgardner
Top Prospects
TP-22 Noah Syndergaard
Rookies
20 Zack Wheeler
Chrome Draft Picks
BDPP1 Dominic Smith
BDPP38 Andrew Church
BDPP39 Casey Meisner
BDPP40 Ivan Wilson
BDPP72 Luis Guillorme
BDPP107 Gaither Bumgardner
Chrome Top Prospects
TP-22 Noah Syndergaard
Chrome Rookies
20 Zack Wheeler
Futures of the Franchise
FF-MH Matt Harvey
Bowman Scouts Breakouts
BSB-KP Kevin Plawecki
BSB-RMO Rafael Montero
(Please note that if you are seeing baseball card images with rounded corners, it’s just an artifact of my blog’s theme – the actual cards have standard 90-degree corners.)
In addition, there are a number of Mets prospects featured on certified autograph or relic baseball cards that are tougher to find. (In some cases, much tougher: Draft Night Autographs have just 10 copies; Bowman Scouts Breakouts Autographs have 24 copies; and Bowman Black Autographs are limited to 25 copies.)
Bowman Chrome Autographed Prospects
BCA-AC Andrew Church
BCA-DS Dominic Smith
Draft Night Autographs
DNA-DS Dominic Smith
Bowman Scouts Breakouts Autographs
BSB-KP Kevin Plawecki
Bowman Black Autographs
BBC-DS Dominic Smith
Futures Game Relic Cards
FGR-BN Brandon Nimmo
FGR-RM Rafael Montero
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I haven’t had a chance to get any of them yet… I hadn’t realized that the Breakout cards are pretty decent looking, so I added those two to my wantlist.
FYI to you and your readers, I looked on COMC and it appears that there are die-cut versions of the Breakout cards, as well as this-fractor and that fractor versions. Doesn’t interest me, but I thought someone might want to know.
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Thanks. I never worry about parallels – I only included the Chrome cards since Topps put them on their checklist (unlike the rest of them.)
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