2020 Topps Series 2 Baseball Cards

@StevenConrad. I agree 100%. And, yes, the Update will be horrible. I can’t see myself buying the update series retail, if at all.

Have you (or Topps) ever addressed the print run for the SP, SSP, or SSSP cards? Specifically the photo variations? I wonder how those runs compare with the Gold (2020 run), etc? Thanks.

Bought 3 hanger boxes and I’m kicking myself. Lots of no names, pitchers that will go nowhere just general filler. It’s like a baked potato and nothing else. No sour cream, no butter. And what’s equally worse (I’m projecting) the Topps update cards (release date) will be just as bad. Hard to make an update when not enough games are being played this season. My best advice, stay with series one and avoid series two.

They are easy to find where I live, are you still looking some series 2 ?

Because “flippers”, or those that sell on eBay, wait for the arrival of the products and buy them all and then resell at higher prices.

UPDATE: I opened 10 retail boxes, 1 hanger, 10 retail packs, and 1 hobby box. Not one Robert along with 7 others to complete a set. Insane.

Can anyone give me a definitive on why all of my local Targets and WalMarts have had ZERO baseball, football, product since pre-Covid (Feb.). Is it a lack of people coming into store to display them which makes retail store send back the boxes, or is it hoarders buying them all to resell on ebay or online at double the cost? I was looking for Topps series 2 baseball after putting series 1 together, and yes I know Roberts is a sought after card…but I can’t find Topps baseball series 2 ANYWHERE in a retail store. Same with Score or Prestige football, etc. Help.

Why does Victor Robles have the rookie cup on this years card? His rookie card is in 2018.

A fun break and lots of cards to go thru. I have purchase a few boxes and have been happy with each. People that are Salty are just new collectors who think every box should yield gold. Excellent quality product just like every other Topps series 1 and 2 product.

I’m hearing that there won’t be many rookies at all in Update as well ??? What are they doing screwing us like that every time. Why are they just labeled as call-ups?????

Series 1 stomps on and flattens this series on the floor. Luis Robert is the only rookie that’s worth collecting. Will wait until he plummets in value since people get overexcited about him and he is selling for like 5 to 6 times the value of the ROY from last year, Alvarez. Just get a few of his RCs from the series in awhile. Series 1 has almost all the main rookies and stars. Feel like this is Series 1 from last year that’s on clearance all over the place.

LOL at the series!😆

Is it me or is the Luis Robert base rookie a sp or tough to pull. My friend ripped 10 retail packs from a hangar box and did not get one. I opened 30 Meijer blister packs and did not pull one Robert rookie card? 40 packs at 16 cards per pack and not 1 single Luis Robert. Topps needs to be better at this. I have this problem with them almost every year. 10 rookies of Joe Dirt and 2 rookies of the best rookie.

I have never complained in all of my years of collecting regarding boxes as it is mostly a crapshoot, but after reading the comments I must agree with those mentioning doubles. I bought a hobby box and while I did not expect to complete the set I also didn’t expect 40 doubles. Probably the worst Topps box I have ever opened. Terrible for set builders like myself.

Exactly. This Series is practically Series 1 from last year–still on the shelves on clearance. They have almost all the meat in Series 1, and am just going to be patient in order to wait for Luis Robert to plummet in value. Get a few of him and forget about the rest of this Series.😉

Worst hobby box experience I have probably had. Opened 4 hobby boxes containing tons of doubles and nowhere near 1 complete set. Set builders beware!!

Do not buy a Jumbo Box. You will get ripped off. This release is horrible.
So many cards which have been PhotoShopped — I bet at the end of the day, there will be dozens of players who appear in this set for a team, in that teams uniform, who never plays for that team. Horrible.

The Jumbo Box did not deliver the entire basic set. Topps does not randomize these cards — they intentionally did not provide all the cards.

Do not buy. You have been warned. Horrible.

Just purchased the hanger box and was very disappointed. 67 cards and 26 are pitchers. Lousy ratio. A Gregorius and Freddie Freeman card, with Tatis and Rod Carew. The rest were all commons. Very disheartening, but what really tuned me up was the 26 pitchers. Ugh! Buyer beware. I hope your luck is better than mine.

Note sure if error or misprint, but 652 Pedro Severino is not him. The photo is of Anthony Santander.

I had 62 doubles in one hobby box. Never any doubles in past hobby boxes. Terrible

Topps should be ashamed… i would not pay 50 bucks for a hobby box of this product. Terrible product.

have you seen a No Name on Front variation for Luis Robert? i hadnt seen a single one until i watched a recap from a breaker and sure enough he pulled a Robert rookie that didnt have his name on front. i am wondering if this is a VERY LONG ODDS SSP insert or some manufacture error?

Checklist is VERY lackluster – even for S2 standards, which is typically abysmal.
Rush to produce this means poor QC and card collation. Numbering frustrations from 2019 have also carried over.
COLLATION: I’ve never NOT been unable to put together a set from jumbo box. Was 13 short with STACK of no-name player extras.
+ 4 Retail Jumbo Pack and I’m still down 10 cards.
QUALITY CHECK: Every SINGLE “WARriors of the Diamond” single I’ve pulled is damaged on bottom left. The only card in pack damaged is card, and card is NOT at bottom of pack.
NUMBERING: Decades Best series 2 set uses SAME EXACT NUMBERING as Series 1. This is incredibly frustrating from a collector and seller stand point. How hard would it be to start with 101? This same stupidity was a major PITA last year with “150 years of baseball” sets.

Did not yield a base set after I opened One jumbo and one hobby box. The inserts are also shortened and received tons of doubles. Not good for set builders like me!!

Is there a reason the last 6 cards in the ’85 autographs set are numbered 85BA instead of 85A? Just want to make sure they aren’t special or unique in any way.

Has anyone heard if we’re going to get the TINS again for Series 2?

Being a set builder i do look at insert sets and the type of set the series offers. So, Topps series 2 doesn’t offer those top rookie cards but it does offer some great insert sets which are now becoming the sets to obtain for grading or flipping.

I bought a hobby box and it came with a Decade’s Best Chrome pack but no Silver pack. Was this an error or does the Decade’s Best Chrome pack replace the Silver Pack?

I got a jumbo box and for hits it had a jersey relic, a manufactured patch, and a sketch card. Are all the sketch cards 1/1? (It wasn’t numbered as such but some of the other sketch cards I’ve seen are not numbered either). Also, does the sketch card replace the auto that is supposed to be in the box? The artist and player are hand written on the back, but it’s no autographed per se and I can’t tell if the artist or a Topps person did the writing. Let me know what you think, thanks.

“More signatures come in the hard-signed 1985 Topps Baseball Autographs line.” — everything I have seen shows these autos as NOT ‘on-card’ — can this be confirmed?

Okay I am stupid and way over paid for a jumbo box and then four jumbo packs! After all that I am 9 cards short of the set! Hit two jersey cards worth $4.00 combined, two fake relics of nobody special and the autographs were even worse. Not a single guy in card store had ever heard of either player on the autos. Over priced and short of the set. BOO Topps ! BOO Topps!

Horrible. I count always count on a set from a Jumbo HTA box, and for years have bought a box of each series for my annual set. NOT THIS ONE! My $200 box is 13 cards short of a set and the inserts were HORRIBLE. This may be the final straw for me.

your variations link doesnt work

Luis Robert has an SSP RC. Should drive the product. This years Acuna bat down. Not alot of rookies in series 2 but 1 huge whale along with some nice autos like the Trout special autograph set should be keep the product selling.

Wow 350 cards of just individual players.

Is this a joke? 1 solid rookie? Look, i don’t mind the inserts i think some of them are o.k but value wise… it’s simply brutal. 200$+ for a jumbo of this product?? Have they gone insane.

The checklist is very lame. Don’t blame the
distributors or the card shops for the prices.
Blame Topps, my order was cut by 1/3 so
there is a shortage of product. All of the
future products are going to be in short
supply also. Again blame Topps.

What an abysmal checklist. And the prices! Madness. Just wait 12 months and pick it up for less than half the price. Or better still, just buy Robert RC’s. No one else appeals. I’d rather buy Topps 2019 Series 1( that’s saying something for it is an awful product). At least it has the CUP cards of the big 4 rookies from 2018. There is just no value at all at the moment busting product, and it feels like the biggest waste of money – especially in a time when there is less disposable income than ever before. Go figure.

Just going by the checklist I am wondering why. This is a year I think Topps probably should have just not done a series 2. This is a year where the top rookies were in series 1. If this was a normal year there might be one or from this series that might have had some accomplishment. None of the rookies in this checklist are even very highly rated prospects and there is no veterans that were not in series one that would really be missed. This offering is over priced at what is being asked.

Can someone please let me know why jumbo box prices of this product start at about $175? My LCS has them at $225. Is it possible Topps has jacked up the price to dealers so much that they have to charge that price and more?

What a trash checklist. Absolute trash. Holy molly… done with Topps. Will be flipping everything i had on pre-sale. Not opening any of this.

Checklist looks great some rookies that were supposed to possibly make teams on opening day this year and some guys who did not get cards in the Update set last year plus some guys I never heard of before.

Well the checklist is out and it’s underwhelming. I can’t believe the dealers asking for hobby and jumbo boxes it’s laughable. These kind of people are pricing collectors and kids out of the hobby.

Delay release of the product!!!!!!! Get us more rookies! You can’t have a product with only Robert in it… respect the people paying for your cards.

Why topps why

Hey Trey, do you know if there will be rookies in Series 2 even though baseball has not been played and also will there be any changes to the base set and all that potentially?

I pre-ordered 5 retail 24 pack boxes at 57.00 Same seller has them at 72 now so hopefully I get my boxes. Not paying the hobby or jumbo box prices as they are stupid.

The reason Walmart has July 22nd down is because the bots cleaned out the presell on retail and they are not expecting a second batch until that date due to manufacturing delays.

Series 2 may be delayed until 22 July, according to Wal-Mart’s listing for Series 2 Hanger boxes

The presale price at the top of this article is, to me, a big risk since Series 1 rocks. With the situation of the world this year I believe that Series 2 won’t have much for new rookies. Might buy a few, but don’t have much faith in Series 2 being very exciting. Wait awhile before buying if you are going to get some since I think most RCs are just going to be the 2nd RC of many players! Those types of RCs aren’t going to be popular.