2023 Topps Chrome Baseball Cards Checklist and Odds

I’m kinda on the fence with the design of the Base set design of this years Topps Chrome . The reason is that I see the bottom of the card as kinda busy with a lot of things going on while the middle and top of the card is almost empty except for the Topps Chrome letters . I would still rather see this than having the area by the player all cluttered . I read on the product details and information the the non – auto Radiating Rookies insert cards are supposed to be 20 . If you look on EBay , there are quite a few Christopher Morel Radiating Rookie cards with the card number being RR – 21 . Do you think that these are counterfeit cards are did the Topps Company add 1 more card and didn’t give you that information ? I would appreciate anything that you can find out about this Trey . It would be greatly appreciated .
Thanks very much , Jim

Stay away from retail at all costs! 40 dollars a blasters and every single card is completely off centered! I don’t know how topps gets away with selling garbage like this!!!

1st box, 5th pack. Vlad GUERRERO autograph. sweet. dont give up on chrome

Topps Chrome Hobby boxes run around $175 at the time I write this. My experience was one auto, 8 refractors and one other hit. To be frank, I got the same hit rate on 3 blaster boxes for around $70 less. Cards are nice, much better than last year but probably more diluted. Always feel like being taken by Topps products.

Junk Product Still waiting from 2022 Topps Chrome Gold Auto of Joe Ryan Fraud, Destroying Hobby

2022 Topps Chrome was bad. Quality control was bad, leaving the SP Rookies out and waiting to tell us was bad and the Silver packs sucked too. This is worse. Diluted product less autos. Fanatics is dropping the ball. I think they need to seriously reevaluate what they are doing.

purchased 2 jumbos, its really exciting getting 2 autographs of the same player and either wasnt numbered or colored. 700$ down the drain thank you topps or fanatics. still waiting for my 2022 topps update wander franco red baseball stars auto redemption. where i live itll probably snow before i get it. again thank you topps :(

QC isn’t as awful as 2022 but man the top bottom centering is borderline madness on MANY cards.

For the product, opened a hobby and a jumbo. The jumbo is probably the way to go but no monster pulls, just treading water level value.

Yea, I am really uncertain of the direction of this hobby but I am close to tap out until some drastic change.

Luckily Tacofractor didn’t have Ohtani

so .. every year I go down to my nearby MLB ballpark… a few times… 18 trips so far this year…
and I typically go down the baseline where players are signing..
and I know who the rookies are .. who will have cards in the current years Chrome set…
and so I ask those players specifically if they finished signing all of their Topps Chrome rookie cards…
and I have got interesting answers
typically higher end rookies sign less than lower end guys..
thats why you see so many boxes with crappy autos
this years report… got answers from 6 of the players on the list..

for star rookie player total number is about 3000 (includes all colored refr cards)
for low end bench scrub.. middle reliever type… it was well over 5000..close to 6000
they make so many colors.. so the chase for the lower numbered versions makes the reason why we chase
But to be honest….
there is NO WAY that cards where players signed in the thousands of cards comes close to justifying the price point for this product… seriously crazy over printed and overpriced.
BUY singles… the best advice you will ever get….
I guess what makes everyone open boxes is the thought that you will pull a low numbered big rookie
ie lottery ticket…
but most hobby boxes will yield $40-$60 in value….
and jumbos… $50-$100
Good luck with your pulls.

Always look forward to Topps Chrome each year. Good rookie class too! I’m guessing Elly De La Cruz might be in Topps Chrome Update?

More product dilution: dropping jumbo auto count while increasing nobody autos and inserts and maintaining a price that’s unapproachable for many collectors. Break out your Topps Chrome cards from 7-8 years ago and compare the quality to today. Maybe if they cut the price in half it becomes interesting. Can’t wait to see how Fanatics ruins the rest of the hobby experience.

Topps Chrome could easily be 2 series, just split the inserts for both series.

$300 for 3 autos. (Probably going to be nobodies) Yeah no thanks! I will buy singles

Fanatics with another big F&%# You to collectors. Dropping the auto total per box? I’m sure the quality control will be terrible yet again. Chrome cards from Fanatics are super cheap (much like all of Fanatics’ products I’m told) and the centering is terrible. I was so looking forward to one of my favorite products, but no more. Buy retail if anything.