2019 Donruss Baseball Cards

I previously reviewed the hobby boxes. This review is for retail blaster boxes, which I bought some of seeking cards to finish my set. Retail is kind of 😒 meh. Inserts in packs are rather scarce. Blasters come with a bonus pack of 4 inserts and 4 blue parallels, but I didn’t see anything too earth shattering come out the bonus packs. Definitely bypass the retail and go with hobby boxes.

I love the smarts Panini has. To make a set where the base INCLUDES the Retro’s, Rated Rookies, Diamond Kings all in the base set allows for more than one real RC of your favorite player in possibly 3 different styles. I never understood why it was necessary to make 10 different subsets that were NOT part of the main set. This is a well done and attractive set in my humble opinion.

I go back and forth between thinking the Domingo auto is the worst or the best thing about this set. Give Donruss credit for creativity.

Thanks for your reply. I guess I was expecting them to have a flag or something on them. I guess I was lucky, I got the Juan Soto card. Hoping it might be something special.

Love the product. One question: I have a number of cards with a blue border and white stars all around the entire border. I can’t find anywhere what these “subsets” are called. I checked Becketts website and can’t find anything on them either. The backs of them feel like vintage stock not as slick as the other cards. Any idea?
Thanks.

Eric – I too experienced a hobby box with cards withbent corners in each pack. No damage to the box at all. Still love the cards though. I gave the bent ones too my youngest son! Worked out great. Lol

Does anyone know if there will be a wrapper redemption like last year?

I would give 5 stars, but I just experienced a hobby box where the first 2-3 cards in each pact were damaged (the box showed no damage, nor did any of the packs). Is this normal?

some may always comment on no logos … like the first comment…
they never fail to show up here..
only because of MLBs stupidity
BUT
bottom line is Panini makes nice cards and a better break than most TOPPS product..
If MLB knows what is good for collectors they should join the NFL and NBA and ditch TOPPS…

While it is hard to say before the season, I am more enthused about the checklist compared to the Topps flagship checklist.

Do you know why, Trey?

Why does it take Panini so long to ship their cards to retail? It normally takes them 3 – 4 weeks from the release date to get them there. It only takes Topps about 3 days to. Today is the 3 week mark, so hoping I’ll finally find Donruss this week. Just want to know why it takes them so long.

Nice set. Cracked 3 hobby boxes. All 3 had 4 hit – one of the hits was the Gerrit Cole relic in ALL 3 boxes though :/

ANY word on wrapper redemption for 2019?

3 hits per box at this price point is what make this Donruss hobby box attractive. Why buy a single box for similar money and HOPE the 1 hit you’re going to find is half decent? Plus, there’s #’d cards galore here. I’ve shifted away from Topps slowly over the last year or so. Between the fatigue and frustration of pulling expired redemptions found in some of the older, more affordable hobby boxes from Topps, to Panini honoring redemptions Topps won’t, to Panini just giving us more fun cards per box, I’ve got a new favorite brand of card to collect.

More of a question than a review. Are all copies of th Domingo Ayala card (#251) cool or refractor versions of are there base versions also? Most listings are indicating foil or refractor!

Fun set to collect! Takes everything that is exciting and popular in modern card collecting and puts it in one box. Hits, throwbacks, parallels, rookies, and limited base. It makes Topps look really stale in comparison.

what is the #ing for photo variations

Tons of inserts and parallel cards inserted roughly one per pack. If you’re lucky busting packs you could eventually find something really nice with a low print run or a 1/1. More fun to open and more bang for the buck than topps. There’s a better chance, I think, you’d find more cards to get excited about opening a case of Donruss than if you went with topps.

My biggest gripe with the lower end, base donruss and score cards is the relatively paper thin card stock.

Why is there no checklist for the recollection buyback autos? I seen Ichiro, Judge, Griffey Jr., Carew, and the late great Oriole Frank Robinson on ebay. I would think with names like that hard signed and low numbered that these cards would be some of the most desired pulls in the set. Panini should at least give us a list of names even if they don’t want to tell us how many or how FEW cards they signed.

would do 3 1/2 stars but, I like the checklist for this year. It’s very colorful with the different teams in it so if you are in a break you have a chance of getting a hit. the design is crappy and hopefully they can fix it. My favorite design was 2017 and I wish that they would bring it back somewhat like that. I can’t wait for this to come out. Should be something fun to open

with the skyrocketing prices of topps baseball , this product has had a amazing checklist and is affordable to the casual collector . It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what team the card represents.
better checklist than topps for a fraction of the cost. a hobby is suppose to be fun not painful…this is the set that will keep you in the hobby

Agree w/ others that there’s room for Donruss and other entities in the baseball market (I wish they’d bring back Fleer, for instance), but the lack of logos is really hurting this product (unless you get a card where the player’s side or back is to the camera). Trey, did I read that Topps extended their contract w/ MLB? I was thinking that contract was due to expire soon and we’d see some real competition in the field.

STILL no checklist . only 4 days before here !

I’m looking forward to this. Waiting impatiently for the checklist. :)

Today’s kiddie card designers don’t know the first thing about design and typography. These cards are about as attractive as weeds (and more plentiful).

Cards look good but the lack of team logos and team names really hurt the product.

This is my go to for a “base set” type product. The design isn’t too different from the last couple of years but it’s pretty good looking still. Definitely a great value especially when your 3 hits are usually 2 autos and relic with a good chance of an extra hit and some bigger names on the checklist usually. I’m really looking forward to this product this year.

I hope for the “deepest checklist yet” – There is room in the hobby for this set.

No logos = sad