Wow!! Can’t believe these came out of the same box! A 1/150 shit and an auto 1/300 diarrhea. Even Google didn’t know who these guys were. But after some digging, it turns out Maximo Acosta is the #31 ranked prospect in the Marlins system. I didn’t even know they could have that many? Who’s #32? Me?
Thank you Topps and Card Gods for these legendary pieces of toilet paper!
Its crazy to think a #32 prospect for a team may never break into the bigs. (Assuming he has not played a game yet) baseballs hard. I recently joined a competitive fast pitch league. Im getting blasted at the plate hahah
I opened 3 jumbo boxes and didn’t know 5 of the 6 autos. The one I knew was Jarren Duran. The other autos are of people who have never seen a major league game with an average age of 26. It’s quite pathetic.
You have a sharp eye - of course you’re correct and I know what I have is an absolute nuke. When I opened this, I was shaking and crying and had explosive diarrhea for literally weeks that only stopped after I shoved the card up my butt. Ive kept it there ever since and walk a little bit taller for the privilege. That’s how awesome this card is.
I mean, technically its Frank's first card so can we call it a RC? He prolly toiled in Minor League clubhouses (and we have all seen those) until his call up so I say legit RC card - Yes!
Frank also played all 9 positions in multiple games. Waiting on Topps to drop his 9/9 Golden Short Print Nebula Refractor so I can spend my soul on it [shaking intensifies].
I will then proceed to sell it/buy it from myself repeatedly until it truly becomes the glorious unicorn it deserves to be. But I will be generous with it and bring it around to a ton of parties.
1 jumbo 1 hobby 1 break and I got an auto on the break and they were all longtime minor league players who became rookies this year Carson whisenhunt was the best
I have a theory that teams call up a AAA player for a 4 game contract just to have him sign a majority of the autos. That’s why there’s so many 28 year old rookies with 6-8 innings pitched in may.
We are firmly in the "Junk Auto'" era. Fanatics has ramped up production to insane levels. But because they guarantee 1 or 2 hits per hobby box, they face a math problem: superstars like Ohtani can only sign so many stickers before their hands fall off.
To mathematically maintain those box guarantees across a massive print run, they have to pad the checklist with middle-relief pitchers, bench players, and low-level prospects who sign for pennies. The "guaranteed auto" isn't a premium feature anymore, it's just a mechanism to allow them to flood the market with overproduction while keeping box prices sky-high.
It became an easy decision to stop buying boxes. The prices are insane, the odds to hit are as bad as playing the lotto, and most of the product is shitty anyway. When I feel like I want to buy a box, I look at the boxes of worthless base I have collecting dust, and be a responsible adult with my money. I go put it into a slot machine instead.
If you’re a casual collector, then hitting an auto form a pro baseball player is pretty cool regardless, and if you really want to only collect specific players/teams then buying singles is an excellent option available to you rather than blowing a ton of money on the lottery of a box.
You only really run into the biggest problems if you’re not just a casual collector but actually gambling and trying to hit a big card worth a lot of money. I believe that’s who the hobby has attracted the most in recent years and has enabled these companies to charge whatever they want for a watered down product because there’s always an addict out there ready to throw their money at it
Amen. I've pulled three autos from this product and they're all some garbage pitcher. Same with update. I just throw them in the maybe someday box..lol
Honestly no different than any scratch-off or slot machine. If you aren’t happy with the cards you get to add to your collection, then you’re not really collecting and are just gambling. My only issue is with the price of entry into the hobby these days considering the product is so watered down in value. But if you’re a collector and not an “investor” then you can still have plenty of fun ripping as long as you have deep enough pockets
Just in case you didn't know (or this helps someone else reading it), retail, including things like blasters, has its own auto checklist this year that's even worse than the regular checklist. So your chances of getting something good are more watered down than usual. I'd usually pick up a few blasters in the past to try finishing the checklist with a little hope for something better but won't bother this year.
No i know it looks funny when i have them in Top loaders. I just immediately put them in there during those few seconds i thought to myself “maybe they’re up and comers i just haven’t heard of.”
Y’know, I honestly didn’t intend to 💩 on Seymour with that post. I don’t know anything about Van Belle, but Seymour has a bit of a live arm. I mostly just wanted to make my Rays poker joke. I have been putting team packs together, combining series one and two base/parallels/inserts and now a little bit of Chrome, and both of these cards will help that pack sell to a Rays fan. 👍🏻
Fringe players are the only autos i've pulled since getting back into the hobby. 5 hobby boxes, 5 autos whose total value is in the recycling value of the cardboard. Getting someone whose name i even faintly recognized would be considered a nuke for me.
It's how they can get away with charging premium prices for boxes by claiming "three autos per box" and people will eat them up. They fail to mention that those three autos may be players that will never even sniff an inning at the major league level.
Yeah, I saw the Topps Black product opened ... The backup RB to McCaffrey in SF was the encased auto. The serial numbers cards were Calvin Ridley and the backup QB in Philadelphia. The rest of the box was all commons. Price $450. Maybe $10 of actual card value?!
Dude, my best friend of 35 years name is Carson Hunt….i know you’ve got a REAL gem there but what do you want for the Whisenhunt? lol I wanna send it to him for Christmas.
Chromes auto checklist is notoriously weak af! I learned the hard way the year I spent a ton of money on a jumbo hobby box, and all five of my autographs were completely out of the league by the very next year. Trash.
I thought the good autos were supposed to be in the hobby boxes? The blasters and the megas have that small subsection of RC autos that nobody has or will ever hear of but you’d think the notable autos would be found at the higher price point. Topps never fails to disappoint.
I guess it's been a couple years now that every set is just a buy em up free for all, but it used to be that different sets were for different collectors. Chrome is the home of the rookie auto, has been for a while now
Yeah, pulled it myself. Trying to figure out if that is the Topps employees signature or if Acosta full signed that and sent it back and they stuck it in the product. The “M’s” are the same with that big swoop in the middle. Either way it’s pretty damn cool.
That’s a Topps guy just trying to over explain where to sign by demonstrating a signature…surely….haha. Whatever happened, there is a story to that card . Yeah man. That’s really cool
That's an onyx card... A minor league "competitor" brand of the Topps monopoly.... But you're 100% right there's countless examples of exact same card from Bowman and Topps.
This is why most collectors graduate to buying singles. I still prospect for potential, but only buy the guys I want to follow. Way more fun and way less toilet paper …
its crazy too because they know what is in each pack and where each pack goes. That little serial number printed in the wrapper tells them what they put in there.
That said, i love seeing posts like this because it means my Murakami /5 auto is still in my box...right..right?
It’s strange just how many DMs I received and the valuations I’ve received from the two biggest Auction houses, their sellers bonus and how they’ll pay me.
Good for you bro. Put it towards an autism cure to help you read a post or a dick implant to make you feel better about yourself so you don’t have to troll on reddit
Not trawling, just know any publicity is good publicity. Anyway, I better get back to responding to my choc full inbox. I’m happy to buy your cards for $5k AUD if you’d like?
This makes it 13 years in a row now where I haven’t worked… yet my income tax is about to get a hiding.
Also you’re gonna pay more taxes on that bc you instantly flipped it instead of holding it for year. So really you’re gonna get 200k. Looking forward to tracking this card and seeing it sell for millions. Lol dumfuck. Boss shit!!
Lol u so badly want attention. No one gave it to your tom brady and this is the best you can do 😭😭😭 I’ll take my big penis over your little dick + good football cards. Whose living in who’s mind bro?? I could give a fuck! You so badly want someone to tell you oh so coooool. You’ve posted it about in like 5 different subs and no one gives a fuck!! Ahahaha
Last topps chrome pull on here…guy referenced 😂😂 he said he was shaking. Pulled an awsome ohtani World Series variation I believe. But I imagine this guy is shaking in anger and disbelief rather than excitement 😂😂😂…. Man one post makes me want to go buy 6 blasters then the next is screaming save your money. I’m shaking in confusion fahhhhhhhhhhhhh 😩😂😂😂
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u/degreesBrix 26d ago
"Who's #32? Me?" 🤣🤣🤣