In the mail box - 2013 Bowman Draft sets

I picked up a hand collated paper set and a Chrome set of 2013 Bowman Draft so I double up on the number of base cards for each player on the checklist - much of my baseball 'off-season' as a fan / autograph collector is spent trying to reload as far as picking up random cards, unopened products, assorted hand collated sets, et al within a budget.

I want to pick up a couple of unopened boxes of 2013 Bowman Draft but don't like the idea of spending $120-$150 and realizing I'm still missing maybe 15-20 random base cards - at least with a couple of sets in-hand, I don't have to worry about wondering if I have a card for someone.

The part I don't always like is trying to sort the cards and finding out where they belong - it's hard to look through these cards individually and feel like these cards are more than just little pieces of cardboard.

Part of it is not knowing who most of the players are and the idea these guys may never heard from unless it's the guys who make it to the Major Leagues - a part of it is the idea I have to put these cards away ASAP without going through each card like I would perhaps cards I pick from a bargain bin / dollar and under box.

The sorting gets tedious but I guess it's easier than actual box breaks, where I'm compelled to list everything I get somewhere - then have to go and separate base cards from common inserts / parallels to actual pulls, before sorting many of the cards into 'team sets' I have for my baseball autograph seeking adventures.

2013 Bowman Draft jumbo pack recap

In addition to buy some loose cards, I tried a $12 jumbo consisting of 32 cards - it's basically the same Bowman Draft product from previous years with a bunch of cards of 'newly minted' pros from this past year's draft as well as 2013 rookies.

A new wrinkle to the basic set is the addition of prospect cards to fill out the checklist - I don't know if I like the idea of adding prospect cards in Bowman Draft, when the players featured are just being recycled and already had assorted ones in various Bowman products.

#BDPP 52 Tyler Wade - it's Topps, so I don't know if the info on every single card is correct, but it is actually noted which round a player was drafted and the draft number, so that is nice, subtle touch.
#BDPP 45 Cord Sandberg
#BDPP 32 J.P. Crawford
#BDPP 27 Reese McGuire
#BDPP 18 Corey Knebel
#BDPP 9 Aaron Blair
#BDPP 4 Nick Ciuffo
#BDPP 126 Joel Effertz
#TP 27 Javier Baez
#TP 41 Dorssys Paulino
#TP 10 Carlos Correa
#TP 41 Preston Tucker
#BDPP 97 Niko Spezial
#BDPP 89 Randolph Gassaway
#BDPP 94 Justin Williams - Chrome
#TP 7 David Dahl

#DD MM Reese McGuire / Austin Meadows - Dual Draftees insert

#BSB-JW Jacob Wilson - Bowman Breakouts insert

#TP-2 Tyler Austin - Orange parallel serial #'d 217/250

#BDPP 46 Jake Sweaney - Chrome refractor parallel
#17 Marcell Ozuna - Chrome
#39 Alex Wood - Chrome
#BDPP 78 Kendall Coleman
#BDPP 70 Aaron Blanton
#14 Alex Colome
#44 Mike Zunino
#BDPP 92 Joseph Monge
#25 Tony Cingrani
#37 Evan Gattis
#12 Nick Franklin
#BDPP 57 Robert Kaminsky
#BDPP 49 Stephen Gonsalves 

Card shop finds - 2013 Bowman Draft miscellanea

I don't know who all these guys are but there was a fresh shoebox of loose BDP cards at my LCS and I picked up a few - with professional baseball, it probably takes three or four years to see if any of these names will have meant something.

2013 BDP paper - $0.50 each
#BDPP 1 Dominic Smith
#BDPP 14 Clint Frazier - x2
#BDPP 26 Jonathan Gray
#BDPP 66 Phil Ervin - Blue parallel serial #'d 251/500

2013 Bowman Draft Chrome - $1 each
#BDPP 8 D.J. Peterson - Chrome refractor
#BDPP 23 Blake Taylor - Chrome refractor
#BDPP 37 Gosuke Katoh - Chrome refractor
#BDPP 57 Robert Kaminsky - Chrome refractor