TRISTAR Projections 2009 – Box Review – Pack 1

This is the first of a series of posts regarding the free box of TRISTAR’s PROjections for 2009.  To give you a an idea of what this brand is all about.  The entire hobby box run was limited to 1800 boxes.  All of the cases (only 75) have already been spoken for.  The release date is actually tomorrow (3/16/09).  Here is the product breakdown:

Each Hobby Box Guarentee 9 hits per box.

• 4 Autograph cards
• 1 Tailor Made game used card
• 4 Parallel cards numbered to 50 or less

Case Hits:

• 96 Autograph Cards (7200 total)
• 24 Tailor Made Game Used Cards (1800 total)
• 96 Parallel Cards #d to 50 or less (7200 total)

Autographed cards are broken down as follows:

• green – #d to 50
• yellow – #d to 25
• orange – #d to 5
• purple – #d to 1

Tailor Made Game Used are broken down so they are numbered to 144, 5, or 1.  Only 12 players from the base set are featured.

Parallel cards are broken down as follows:

• green – #d to 50
• yellow – #d to 25
• orange – #d to 5
• purple – #d to 1

Every case has two Obak preview cards of Tim Beckham, 1 modern era card and 1 mini card

I will open up the entire box, then give away the hits and base cards through drawings.  Enter each Monday starting 3/23/09 to win cards.  I will post and sticky it when the contest opens.  Hopefully we can land some great cards for the give away.  So with that let’sopen up our first pack of cards.  First off the box is numbered 379 of 1800,printed in gold foil on the front of the box.  A nice touch to a very limited product.  The box on ebay runs about $75 – $80 making each pack worth about $4.

First pack:

Bryce Stowell – 34 – Cleveland – 2008 – 22nd round – Peperdine – Has not played yet, but in 2008 at Peperdine he was 8-3 with 101 strikouts.

Travis Adair -7 – Atlanta – 2008 – 13th round – Cleveland State CC – Pro Debut card – Played for GCL Braves last year and went 0.289/0/20/10 in just 197 at bats.  Not a bad start.

Layton Hiller – 6 – Atlanta – 2008 15th round – Binn Jr College – Pro Debut card -  In just 133 at bats he went 0.203/5/18/1. Even though it was  the GCL Braves, still 5 homers in 133 at bats is good.  Let’s see what he can do in low A this year.

Brett Wallace – Tailor Made Jersey – #d 4/144 – The all white jersey kind of sucks but, the fact it’s Brett Wallace is fantastic.  He should be the first to become a starter in the majors hopefully by mid year.  He was outstanding in college, and should translate to at a minimum a 0.285/25/80 kind of player in the pros soon enough.  This will make for a nice giveaway next Monday.

Overall nice pack, the bit hit is the Wallace as you could guess so I’ll rate this pack a 4 out of 5 mainly for the Wallace hit, but the Adair card was solid as well.  Nice cards, they are heavy glossy stock.  Keep track of who you want to try and win.  Tomorrow will be pack two review.