I saw a three pack of Bowman Platinum at Walmart and decided, what the hell. I really do like the chrome based set, but that being said, I think it resembles Finest too much. Here is what I got:
Three pack of purple variation rookies:
BPP83 Manny Machado (see below)
BPP66 Matt Harvey (see below)
BPP19 Jimmy Paredes
Pack 1:
BPP41 Delino DeShields Jr. (see below)
71 Dan Haren – emerald variation (see below)
19 Carlos Gonzalez
36 Johan Santana
Pack 2:
35 Jason Heyward
43 Joey Votto
BPP53 Eduardo Escobar – xfractor variation (see below)
72 Tim Lincecum
Pack 3:
BPP82 Garrett Richards - xfractor variation (see below)
96 Matt Kemp
18 Adam Dunn
11 Justin Upton
Verdict:
Overall I like the set, since Finest doesn’t have a retail variant, it’s nice to be able to buy Finest type cards without having to blow over 100 bucks on a hobby box. The cards themselves look great, although like all Topps chrome poducts, they do have “the bend”. I have always been a fan of the xfractors so, to get two in 3 packs was awesome (1:4 seeding). Also the Manny Machado and Matt Harvey cards are a must keep for me. Machado has been excellent so far and big things are predicted for him. Harvey is a local guy down here and it’s great to see him on a card.
I give this lot of three a rating of 3.5/5. What do you think of these three packs?
For 3 packs, I think you did great, almost gotta go 4/5…..any jersey card out of a 3 pack walmrt purchase is a 4.5/5 easy….I have bought the $29.99 7 pack boxes and done way worse than this, except I got that sweet Jerry Hairston Jr bat card LOL
Escobar gave up a big hit last night – the value packs are the way to go, you got a couple of decent prospects.
I’ve been chasing the Jarrod Parker cards in that set and they used a session photo similar to his Bowman prospects card from the year before. I don’t know if other prospects were treated the same, but its kinda cheap. I’m still chasing after the red and gold versions of the 2011 Parker card…as a set, doesn’t do a lot for me. But its a nice effort.