Bringing the now distinctive Sapphire Chrome effect to the standard 2024 Topps design, 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball has a lot to like. It also comes with an ever-rising price point that perhaps should give you pause.
But what are the details of the 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball release? What are the hits? And is this shiny product worth a break?
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The release date for 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball is September 20, 2024 (subject to change). This follows an exclusive early-bird opportunity for 582 Montgomery Club members on September 10th.
Hobby boxes of 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball contain 8 packs per box. Each hobby pack contains 4 cards per pack. There are 10 hobby boxes per hobby case.
Each hobby box contains 1 Chrome Autographs and 3 parallels per box.
Pre-sales of 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball on Topps.com will be for $349.99 when available. They should go live at 12 PM ET on the 20th, and expect them to sell out quickly. Pre-sale prices on eBay and other platforms are already at around $500 for a hobby box.
The base set of 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball consists of 700 cards, with the same checklist as 2024 Topps Series 1 and Series 2. The cards feature the now well-known Sapphire chromium finish.
Parallels fall three per box and offer up an additional layer of chase to the Sapphire experience.
Parallels include:
15 select cards from the base set get Image Variations, which are seeded 1:81 packs.
Parallels include:
Beyond the parallels and Image Variations, there is a single insert offering in 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball.
Sapphire Selections consists of 15 cards of some of the biggest names in the hobby, from Mike Trout and Aaron Judge to rookies like Jasson Domínguez and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Seeded 1:81 packs.
Parallels include:
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Seeded one per hobby box, autographs are of course among the biggest hits and biggest chase in 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball. Like with the inserts, the autograph offerings are fairly streamlined, with just two sets and their related parallels.
Chrome Sapphire Autographs highlight 48 rookies from the base set and give them the ink treatment. Seeded 1:16 packs. Top names include Jackson Merrill, Jackson Chourio, Jackson Holliday, Elly De La Cruz, and Jasson Dominguez.
Parallels include:
Sapphire Selections Autographs brings us autographed versions of nine cards from the insert set. Seeded 1:472 packs.
Parallels include:
2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball a streamlined product with a namesake chromium finish. But are these a good candidate to buy and hold unopened? Let’s see what recent comps for hobby boxes from the last few years can tell us.
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Year | Hobby Box Recent Comp Price |
2024 | $350/$500 |
2023 | $190-$270 |
2022 | $135 |
2021 | $70-100 |
The prices are a bit all over the place from year to year and even within a single year, and the release price of the product has changed so much over the last few years. Those factors make it hard to predict how box prices may behave if held for a few years. On the bright side, it appears that if you manage to get one of these from Topps for $350, you can potentially flip it for $500 or more right away.
In terms of singles, what can recent comp prices for 2023 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball tell us about the potential high end from 2024?
A Sapphire Selections 1/1 Superfractor of Aaron Judge in PSA 10 sold for somewhere north of $4,900 but south of $6,000. Prices drop quickly from there, with the next entry on our list a 2023 Topps Chrome Sapphire Patrick Bailey Rookie Auto Red /5 in PSA 10 sold for $2,000.
A Shohei Ohtani card from the same parallel set sold for $1,200 in a PSA 9. Prices quickly drop to below $1,000 and below from there.
The inclusion of Gunnar Henderson in 2023 Topps Sapphire Update shows that a good rookie checklist can drive prices upward, with different Henderson cards selling for between $1,000 and $3,500.
So, there’s some high end potential, but with the buy-in price of a box rising significantly, good returns are far from guaranteed.
Every product has pros and cons when deciding whether to purchase and break them. What are some of the pros and cons of 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball?
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Pros
Cons
2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball is sure to be a fast-selling product and popular product. The guarantee of an autograph and 3 parallels per box offers some floor for a break, but at the ever-rising price point, is the high-end potential worth the risk?
What’s your take on 2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Baseball? Looking to break a box? Buying into a break? Buying singles? Or are you passing? Tell us about it at CardLines on Twitter.
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