Bowman Sapphire has forged a reputation as a unique, streamlined, product with a premium flare. They also have a reputation for providing fairly solid value, as well. We will soon get the chance to see if 2025 Bowman Sapphire is a fitting entry into the Sapphire line.
What will collectors find inside 2025 Bowman Sapphire? What are the hits? What is the release format? And these shiny cards worth a break?
2025 Bowman Sapphire became available on Topps.com on June 4th at 12pm ET and quickly sold out at around $550. Prices on the secondary market are sure to be significantly higher.
Hobby boxes of 2025 Bowman Sapphire contain 8 packs per box. Each hobby pack contains 4 cards per pack.
Hobby boxes of 2025 Bowman Sapphire contain one Chrome Autograph card and three or more exclusive Sapphire parallels.
The 2025 Bowman Sapphire product offers up a 150 card base set, with the trademark chromium Sapphire blue sparkle finish. The design matches that of 2024 Bowman, but with the Sapphire flair.
The checklist is a subset of the 2025 Bowman product, with a number of 1st Bowman cards.
Key players on the checklist include:
Many more exciting young players appear on the checklist as well.
Parallels, which fall at least three per hobby box, offer up another layer of chase for the base set.
Speaking of parallels, a rainbow of options exist, including:
The streamlined 2025 Bowman Sapphire offering only has a single insert offering, although a rainbow of parallels adds to the chase.
Sapphire Selections offers up 20 cards with a focus on some of the top young players in the game.
Parallel versions include:
Autographs come one per hobby box and are sure to be among the most sought-after hits in the product.
Sapphire Autographs offer up autographs of 28 top prospects from across the minor leagues.
Parallels include:
Sapphire Selections Autographs brings us autographed versions of seven cards from the Sapphire Selections insert set.
Parallels include:
2025 Bowman Sapphire brings the premium blue Sapphire sparkle in a streamlined product offering. But are these a good candidate to buy-and-hold unopened? Let’s see what a look at recent hobby box comp prices suggest about the potential for 2025?
| Year | Recent Hobby Box Comp Price |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $550 (drop price) |
| 2024 | $700-775 |
| 2023 | NA |
| 2022 | $500-625 |
Based on recent comp prices, these appear to have some upside, perhaps significantly so, if you can get these at or near their drop prices. That can be a tall order will quick sell-outs, but if you can grab one, the upside is there, whether you hold it for days or a few years.
What about in terms of singles? What can a look at recent sales of 2024 Bowman Sapphire singles tell us about the potential high water mark for 2025?
A Red Refractor Auto of Walker Jenkins /5 in PSA 10 sold for $3,500. George Lombard Jr. Black Autograph cards /10 have sold for $2,425 in a PSA 10 and $2,100 in PSA 9. A Pablo Guerrero Superfractor Auto sold for $2,000, as did an Arjun Nimmala Orange Auto /25 in a PSA 10 slab.
Prices go down from there, with lots of cards between $1,000 and $2,000. It is clear that these do offer the chance at some significant value. All the usual caveats apply: the high priced cards are rare, these boxes don’t have a ton of cards, the box price certainly isn’t cheap, and prospect will break your heart. That being said, the chance at a big hit is absolutely present in these.
All hobby products have pros and cons that you should consider when deciding whether to purchase or not. What are some of the pros and cons of 2025 Bowman Sapphire?
Pros
Cons
With any prospect-driven product, there’s what’s good now…and what will be good later. Only time will help sort that out, so it may take years to know the winners and losers in this product.
2025 Bowman Sapphire offers up a streamlined product offering with a cool Sapphire finish and some very cool hits. But the price tag should give you pause, unless you can get it at or near the drop price.
What’s your take on 2025 Bowman Sapphire? Looking to break a box? Buying into a break? Buying singles? Or are you passing on this product? Tell us about it at CardLines on X.
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