2022 Topps Update blaster recaps

Box one

Pack one

#US196 Hanser Alberto

#US268 Joe Kelly

#US57 Jake Lamb

#US158 Robinson Cano

#US228 J.P. Feyereisen

#US282 Alek Thomas - Rookie Debut

#US82 Taylor Hearn

#US234 Joe Perez RC

#US301 Kris Bryant

#US278 Yusei Kikuchi

#US127 Zack Greinke

#US309 Clayton Kershaw - Dodgers All-Time Strikeouts Leader checklist

#ASG-49 William Contreras - 2022 MLB All-Star Game insert

#SMLB-64 Ryan Mountcastle - Stars of MLB insert

Pack two

#US227 Anthony Bass

#US59 Andre Pallante RC

#US16 Sonny Gray

#US314 Cooper Hummel RC 

#US185 Seth Lugo

#US197 Jesus Sanchez

#US224 Bryson Stott RC

#US12 Jace Peterson

#US257 Jorge Soler

#US100 Bobby Witt Jr. RC

#US324 Avisail Garcia

#US198 Garrett Richards - Vintage Stock parallel, serial #'d 24/99

#BG-20 Oneil Cruz - Topps Black Gold insert 

#SMLB-84 Royce Lewis - Stars of MLB insert

Pack three

#US150 Brendan Donovan RC

#US323 Adam Engel

#US137 Eugenio Suarez

#US255 Bryson Stott - Rookie Debut

#US22 Trevor Story

#US229 Jake Odorizzi

#US201 Jorge Alcala

#US284 Michael Pineda

#US269 Ehire Adrianza

#US277 Jhoan Duran RC

#US251 Andrew McCutchen

#US317 Bryan Lavastida RC

#US39 Carlos Correa

#SMLB-73 Alek Thomas - Stars of MLB insert

Pack four

#US263 Matt Beaty

#US35 Brandon Marsh - Rookie Debut

#US219 Ramon Urias

#US133 Austin Nola

#US188 Connor Joe

#US198 Garrett Richards

#US288 Max Scherzer / Jacob deGrom - Aces Up / Veteran Combos

#US60 Adam Frazier

#US248 Gabriel Arias RC

#US203 Yu Chang

#US91 Brad Miller

#BH-JB Javier Baez - Commemorative batting helmet relic

#87TBU-6 Matt Olson - 1987 Topps

#ASB-1 Mike Trout - 2022 MLB All-Star Game insert

#SMLB-72 Julio Urias - Stars of MLB insert

Pack five

#US225 Felix Bautista RC

#US2 Matt Olson

#US315 Garrett Stubbs

#US261 Steven Kwan RC

#US232 Tyler Wade 

#US76 Tommy Romero RC

#US99 Tyrone Taylor

#US41 Gosuke Katoh

#US125 Travis Jankowski

#US238 Javier Baez / Robbie Grossman - Dancing in Detroit / Veteran Combos

#US49 Aaron Civale

#US67 Harold Ramirez

#US290 George Kirby - Rookie Debut

#SMLB-62 Brandon Marsh - Stars of MLB insert

Pack six

#US328 Cristian Pache

#US217 Kevin Smith RC

#US245 Yan Gomes

#US30 Camilo Doval

#US236 Jack Suwinski RC

#US84 Michael Lorenzen

#US121 Eric Thames

#US138 Drew Smyly

#US281 Steven Duggar

#US222 Joe Ryan - Rookie Debut

#US174 Alex Dickerson

#US112 Rhys Hoskins / Bryce Harper - Philly Phenoms / Veteran Combos; Royal Blue parallel

#PP-22 Stephen Strasburg - Paragons of the Postseason insert

#SMLB-88 Seiya Suzuki - Stars of MLB insert

Pack seven

#US79 Spencer Torkelson - Rookie Debut

#US123 Isaac Paredes

#US179 Maikel Franco

#US190 Tyler Anderson

#US212 Alek Thomas RC

#US47 Will Smith

#US266 Nick Castellanos

#US250 Seiya Suzuki RC 

#US243 Roberto Perez

#US153 Rene Pinto RC

#US316 Geraldo Perdomo

#US88 Kyle Schwarber

#ASG-22 Jose Ramirez - 2022 MLB All-Star Game insert

#SMLB-90 MacKenzie Gore - Stars of MLB insert

Box two

Pack one

#US219 Ramon Urias

#US133 Austin Nola

#US225 Felix Baustista RC

#US2 Matt Olson

#US215 Garrett Stubbs

#US63 Jake McGee

#US97 Julio Rodriguez - Rookie Debut

#US129 Rob Refsnyder

#UU69 Jurickson Profar

#US319 Francisco Morales

#US204 A.J. Pollock

#US3 Jesse Winker

#US267 Hunter Greene - Rookie Debut

#SMLB-87 Julio Rodriguez - Stars of MLB insert 

Pack two 

#US261 Steven Kwan RC

#US232 Tyler Wade

#US328 Cristian Pache

#US217 Kevin Smith

#US245 Yan Gomes

#US42 Wander Franco - Rookie Debut

#US180 Josh Rojas

#US80 Tyler Naquin

#US329 Andrew Knizner

#US294 MacKenzie Gore - Rookie Debut

#US306 Jake Walsh - Rainbow Foil parallel

#US266 Nick Castellanos - Orange Foilboard, serial #'d 294/299

#DGDC-22 Eddie Mathews - Diamond Greats Die-Cuts insert

#SMLB-69 Javier Baez - Stars of MLB insert

Pack three

#US30 Camilo Doval

#US79 Spencer Torkelson - Rookie Debut

#US123 Isaac Paredes

#US179 Maikel Franco

#US292 Cole Irvin

#US104 Luke Williams

#US200 Corey Seager

#US145 Miguel Castro

#US301 Kris Bryant

#US278 Yusei Kikuchi

#US309 Clayton Kershaw - Dodgers All-Time Strikeouts Leader checklist

#US127 Zack Greinke

#ASG-43 Tony Gonsolin - 2022 MLB All-Star Game insert

#SMLB-64 Ryan Mountcastle - Stars of MLB insert

Pack four

#US190 Tyler Anderson

#US29 Alex De Goti RC

#US163 Jon Gray

#US52 Bryce Elder RC

#US181 Adam Ottavino

#US110 Elehuris Montero RC

#US326 Luke Maile

#US228 J.P. Feyereisen

#US282 Alek Thomas - Rookie Debut

#US12 Jace Peterson

#US257 Jorge Soler

#US100 Bobby Witt Jr. RC

#BH-OA Ozzie Albies - Commemorative batting helmet relic

#87TBU-41 Heliot Ramos - 1987 Topps 

#SMLB-84 Royce Lewis - Stars of MLB insert

Pack five

#US308 Richie Palacios RC

#US75 Chris Paddack

#US117 Nick Allen RC

#US279 Sergio Alcantara

#US205 Drew Steckenrider

#US82 Taylor Hearn

#US234 Joe Perez RC

#US197 Jesus Sanchez

#US224 Bryson Stott RC

#US324 Avisail Garcia

#US277 Jhoan Duran RC

#US251 Andrew McCutchen

#US317 Bryan Lavastida RC

#SMLB-73 Alek Thomas - Stars of MLB insert

Pack six

#US64 Alex Faedo RC

#US169 Orlando Arcia

#US193 James Norwood

#US85 Diego Castillo RC 

#US229 Jake Odorizzi 

#US201 Jorge Alcala

#US284 Michael Pineda

#US39 Carlos Correa

#US249 Gabriel Arias RC

#US203 Yu Chang

#US91 Brad Miller

#BG-19 Bryce Harper - Topps Black Gold insert

#ASG-9 Jose Altuve - 2022 MLB All-Star Game insert

#SMLB-72 Julio Urias - Stars of MLB insert

Pack seven 

#US199 Austin Meadows

#US194 Nelson Cruz

#US102 Craig Kimbrel

#US285 Nick Tropeano

#US214 Starling Marte

#US269 Ehire Adrianza

#US188 Connor Joe

#US198 Garrett Richards

#US288 Max Scherzer / Jacob deGrom - Aces Up / Veteran Combos

#US238 Javier Baez / Robbie Grossman - Dancing in Detroit / Veteran Combos

#US49 Aaron Civale

#US67 Harold Ramirez

#US290 George Kirby - Rookie Debut

#SMLB-62 Brandon Marsh - Stars of MLB insert

2021 Topps Update hanger box recap 1

This was the first of two $10 hanger boxes from the book store - have two more hanger boxes from Target I'll have to formally go through, but this had the best results out of the four.

#US33 Marcus Semien

#US194 Miguel Castro

#US88 Victor Caratini

#US25 Chi Chi Gonzalez

#US114 Patrick Wisdom

#US61 Marwin Gonzalez

#US178 Ryan Weathers - Rookie Debut

#US283 Sergio Romo

#US174 Mario Feliciano RC

#US164 Andrew Knapp

#US239 Matt Shoemaker

#US115 Tyler Wade

#US127 Luis Guillorme

#US259 Deivi Garcia - Rookie Debut

#US132 Jameson Taillon

#US212 Bobby Dalbec - Rookie Debut

#US177 Andrew Stevenson

#US310 John Nogowksi RC

#US275 Mike Foltynewicz

#US301 Luis Gonzalez RC

#US101 Keegan Thompson RC

#US280 Gregory Santos RC

#US282 Lance Lynn

#US246 Brent Honeywell RC

#US190 Rony Garcia RC

#US224 Steve Cishek

#US305 Bryan Garcia RC

#US287 Alex Verdugo / Enrique Gonzalez - Veteran Combos; Top Shelf

#US255 Jake Lamb

#US103 Kyle Finnegan RC

#US286 Jonathan India - Green parallel serial #'d 432/499; happy to pull a rookie year parallel of the 2021 National League Rookie of the Year, so glad it's not the Rookie Debut subset. 

#70YT-38 Pete Alonso - 70 Years of Topps insert

#86B-8 Javier Baez - 1986 Topps Baseball insert

#T92-27 Andrew Vaughn

#T92-34 Gerrit cole

#T92-18 Shane Bieber

#T92-14 Luis Robert

#US209 Jordan Luplow

#US185 Khalil Lee RC

#US97 Adam Duval

#US65 Andres Gimenez RC

#US214 Luis Patino - Rookie Debut

#US118 Jose Quintana

#US146 Luke Jackson

#US293 Jimmy Lambert RC

#US302 Jarred Kelenic RC

#US11 D.J. Peters RC

#US98 Magneuris Sierra

#US248 Miguel Sano / Byron Buxton - Minnesota Mashers

#US151 Garrett Hampson

#US155 Miguel Cabrera / Jeimer Candelario - Snow Tigers

#US276 Willy Adames

#US41 Alex Kirilloff - Rookie Debut

#US18 Billy Hamilton

#US30 Brock Holt

#US26 Taijuan Walker

#US166 Chris Gittens RC

#US171 Matt Moore

#US105 Chad Kuhl

#US20 Josh Staumont - man bun

#US66 James Paxton

#Us117 Hirozaku Sawamura RC

#US92 Tyler Stephenson - Rookie Debut

#US228 Dylan Moore

#US19 Chase Anderson

#US67 Angel Rondon

#US120 Seth Brown

2021 Topps Update blaster recap

I finally got my hands on some 2021 Topps Update and while it may not be a big deal, I feel like retail offerings are still trickier to find in-person - one of the stops tagging along with my mother running errands was at a Barnes and Noble book store where I've heard of accounts where they've sold cards in the past year [i.e. 2021 Bowman Mega Boxes].

On the other hand I don't know if each store just put the cards out in the shelves and I've never seen them [not that I go to bookstores much at all in the here and now] - what happened however, was when I was waiting in line to make a purchase, I saw someone approach the counter and ask the sales associate for trading cards.

I couldn't believe my eyes when the person dug out some blasters for the person look at - when I finally had a chance, I followed suit to ask for some cards myself and ended up with this blaster, along with two $10 hanger boxes.

It's kind of a minor miracle but I guess it happens where I get an opportunity to find cards when I'm not really expecting to - at my local Target, I did find some loose hanger boxes, so I grabbed a couple more in the wild.

Pack one

#US84 Bailey Ober RC

#US273 Mike Minor

#US148 Daniel Vogelbach

#US175 Ha-Seong Kim - Rookie Debut

#US100 Jon Lester

#US288 Carlos Rodon - Rodon Twirls No No

#US4 Mitch Moreland

#US285 Vladimir Gutierrez - Orange Foilboard parallel, serial #'d 034/299

#ASG-18 Bo Bichette - 2021 MLB All-Stars insert

#70YT-31 Mark McGwire - 70 Years of Topps insert

#T92-42 Kyle Lewis - Topps 1992 Redux insert; the originals had a thinner card stock and a back of the cards had 'creamier' feel. 

#US121 Trevor Stephan / Nick Sandlin - Rookie Combos RC

#US323 Jorge Ona RC

#US204 Willians Astudillo

Pack two

#US211 Luis Patino RC

#US140 Andrew Vaughn - Rookie Debut

#US196 Akil Baddoo RC

#US309 Keibert Ruiz - Rookie Debut

#US9 Jose Urena

#US161 Michael Wacha

#US201 Brad Miller

#US64 Archie Bradley

#US157 Josh Reddick - Rainbow Foil parallel

#T70P-RY Robin Yount - Topps 70th Anniversary Logo Patch

#T02-46 Randy Arozarena - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US285 Vladimir Gutierrez RC

#US322 Adam Ottavino 

#US173 Sam Hentges RC

#US83 Joe Panik

Pack three

#US207 Zack Collins

#US291 Eric Sogard

#US153 Daniel Lynch RC

#US95 Hunter Renfroe

#US144 Taylor Trammell / J.P. Crawford - Leather Flashers

#US172 Giovanny Gallegos

#US150 Zack Wheeler

#US58 Austin Dean

#86B-47 Jacob deGrom - 1986 Topps Baseball insert

#T92-33 Giancarlo Stanton - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US14 Dane Dunning

#US59 Steven Matz

#US230 Charlie Culberson

#US87 Matt Harvey

Pack four

#US70 Alex Vesia RC

#US279 Asdrubal Cabrera

#US82 Jordan Holloway RC

#US252 Raisel Iglesias

#US12 Nick Gordon RC

#US243 Lane Thomas

#US46 Ryan McKenna RC

#US237 Will Craig RC

#ASG-7 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - 2021 MLB All-Stars insert

#T92-28 Christian Yelich - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US266 Sterling Sharp RC

#US222 Brady Singer - Rookie Debut

#US57 Seth Elledge RC

#US78 Jed Lowrie

Pack five

#US107 Nivaldo Rodriguez RC

#US48 Bo Bichette / Marcus Semien - Veteran Combos; Fast Friends

#US129 Sean Doolittle

#US21 Huascar Ynoa RC

#US38 Julio Teheran

#US254 Cole Tucker

#US42 Tyler Nevin RC

#BG-25 Jo Adell - Topps Black Gold insert

#T92-24 Cody Bellinger - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US182 Ashton Goudeau RC

#US263 John Gant

#US191 Shane McClanahan - Rookie Debut

#US256 Josh Palacios RC

#US281 Elias Diaz 

Pack six

#US111 Jackie Bradley Jr.

#US47 Taylor Trammell

#US71 Sam Huff RC

#US261 Luis Garcia - Rookie Debut

#US295 Cristian Pache - Rookie Debut

#US154 Frankie Montas

#US199 Pat Valaika

#US50 Josh Bell

#TC92-2 Aaron Judge - Topps 1992 Redux insert; Chrome

#T92-9 Ryan Mountcastle - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US274 Tyler Ivey RC

#US270 Merrill Kelly

#US327 Tony Watson

#US143 Jake Cronenworth - Rookie Debut

Pack seven

#US49 Martin Maldonado

#US257 Ke'Bryan Hayes - Rookie Debut

#US209 Jordan Luplow

#US185 Khalil Lee RC

#US197 Dylan Carlson - Rookie Debut

#US208 Brian O'Grady

#US187 Tyson Miller RC

#US219 Francisco Mejia

#86B-8 Javier Baez - 1986 Topps Baseball insert

#ASG-4 Nelson Cruz - 2021 MLB All-Stars insert

#T92-4 Shohei Ohtani - Topps 1992 Redux insert

#US317 Myles Straw

#US133 Garrett Whitlock RC

#US234 Carlos Hernandez RC