2015 Topps Chrome Baseball Cards

Love the borders!

Bought 17 packs at my baseball card shop and pulled a superfractor of Christian yelich?? great autos

PeterP >> “Who has time for that?” I dunno about you, but as a hobby / collector, I actually APPRECIATE taking the time and looking over a card. As opposed to just quickly tearing into a pack, ohh and ahh over a Buxton for 2/3 seconds, toss it aside, and move on very rapidly.

Refractors are actually growing on me. As are inserts. I still think they are overdone, but I like a variety of artwork and photography.

Mike | Sep 3, 2015 | Reply

The refractor thing is more a nuisance than anything. Stupid to say the least. Somebody needs to take a different approach to this hobby. Same damn thing from all companies. Too many parallels. Too much money for even blisters just to get junk. 5 blasters for 100 bucks = 1 hobby box. Usually get jack squat from retail. Hobby boxes are riddled with crap autos. I’m about done with this hobby. I spend a crap load of money on this hobby. Have over 1000000 cards. Burned out!!! I’ll take to 10 grand a year I spend on cards and invest in something else. Peace Out.

LMAO! Yeah, 10k/year on BASEBALL CARDS? A retirement fund is a smart idea if you want an investment. Baseball cards are a smart idea if you want a fun hobby. Slightly rude, but good riddance, I say to you, sir!

question for trey, how long does it normally take to get redemptions fulfilled from topps? been waiting 6 months or so

C’mon, mark the refractors please. You have to turn them to the light? Seriously who has that time? Bowman has the same issue for me this year.

I’ve only been collecting a few years and I mostly collect Heritage. I grabbed a box of Chrome and got hooked! I love the look of these cards, there’s always exciting autos, and I love all the different colors. I’m working on collecting the Gallery of Greats Orange Refractors. The only downside in my opinion, is the repeat autos. Out of 4 boxes, I have 2-3 base autos of maybe the same 4-5 players. Otherwise, this product is a lot of fun to break. I will now be collecting Heritage and Chrome every year.

Guys…I just pulled the Mike Trout base SuperFractor.

What do I do?!? lol

Really liked the look I’m the cards. I bought 2 boxes a month ago with really good hits. 1st box – Yellow printing plate Adam Eaton, 2 autos, some inserts, AND every single base card was a refractor. 2nd box – 2 autos (1 refractor Jorge Soler), 1 – illustrious autograph orange refractor Jorge Soler. Also K.Bryant prism refractor. Got a Carlos Correa, but the card number is 205, I thought the base card set was 200.

I pulled many a Terrance West, Aaron Murray, and Devanta Freeman from Topps FB. Alas, the card Gods finally took mercy upon me. Last Saturday, I opened a jumbo box of this product. I pulled a Franco purple auto, a Castillo auto, and a Kris Bryant red refractor auto /5. This card is amazing. Auto is solid and the card is built like a tank. I love this product.

I like the cards but hate the fact that refractors are not marked this year. I won’t be buying anymore packs.

2 blasters: Yasmany Tomas gold auto #/50, Micah Johnson ref auto #499.
Overall odds = 2:463 packs.
I got 12 packs.

I’m going to buy all the retail blasters I can find. Bush5104ATgmailDOTcom for trade offers.

I collect Topps Chrome every year. As Topps has been including more autos in every box it seems the older non-collectible rookie out number the great pulls. Overall an ok product. I wish an SP announcement would come out ahead of time. I haven’t seen any Syndergaard or Tomas base rookie autos. I collect the base auto set every year so the announcement would help in which ones I don’t need to look for.

As for the refractors: I bought jumbo boxes which have 13 cards per pack. Halfway through the first box I figured out the pattern. In each pack the first and last 5 cards are regular cards. The 3 in the middle are the inserts (which will be all different refractors, autos, chrome commencment, etc.). Hope this helps when initially sorting and breaking packs.

Not usually a huge fan of Topps Chrome but this year’s set looks good as a Chrome set. Didn’t have the money for a hobby or jumbo box but bought three jumbo packs with pretty decent results. The first pack had a Jacob Lindgren purple auto refractor. The next pack had a Chris Sale purple refractor and the last had a Francisco Lindor blue auto refractor and a Yasmany Tomas prism refractor. Don’t like that refractors aren’t labeled on the back but I can deal with it. Cards however look absolutely sharp with this design and this maybe the first Chrome set I try to complete.

I like the cards personally but my old eyes have trouble with the refractor vs base issue. Bright lights didn’t help BUT LED lights do. I use my phone – turn on camera app and leave the flash on. Just look at the screen of your phone and the LED flash makes the refractors pop. Easy to tell that way for me.

I am still having issues which are refractor cards and which are not the only cards i am sure of are the Prism cards God knows why Topps choice to NOT add the word refractor on this 2015 Topps Chrome set this year but it is not very smart.

The refractor thing is more a nuisance than anything. Stupid to say the least. Somebody needs to take a different approach to this hobby. Same damn thing from all companies. Too many parallels. Too much money for even blisters just to get junk. 5 blasters for 100 bucks = 1 hobby box. Usually get jack squat from retail. Hobby boxes are riddled with crap autos. I’m about done with this hobby. I spend a crap load of money on this hobby. Have over 1000000 cards. Burned out!!! I’ll take to 10 grand a year I spend on cards and invest in something else. Peace Out.

It is very hard to determine the refractors!!

I’m a casual collector and am still trying to figure out colored refractors, but I think the cards look great. My only complaint is I have opened 4 hobby boxes and haven’t scored a single Correa, Bryant or Buxton. I was also disappointed to see that Lance McCullers isn’t in the collection.

I think this product is done well, and I did have luck with my one hobby box with a pull of a Correa SP and a Gold Beltre – both of which I sold on ebay so I can grab cards I want. Went to a card show and traded away my junky low end inserts, for 90+ base cards and almost completed my set this way.

I agree with the need for topps to put a ‘refactor’ marking on this cards.

Overall I think the Chrome is my product to wait for next year and not bother with the big Series 1 & 2 sets that are watered down imho.

Has Topps Chrome ever looked better? This is a great-looking design for chrome this year, and the inserts are absolutely gorgeous cards. I think the gold parallels of the Gallery of Greats inserts serial numbered to 50 are some of the nicest looking cards I’ve ever seen. The color refractors of the base cards also look awesome.

The auto checklist is obviously somewhat weak given the numerous talented rookies in the MLB this year. But, with autos of Bryant, Franco, Pederson, Kang and Buxton all available, I don’t think the lack of some others detracts too much from the overall appeal of the set.

I always love Topps Chrome, I collect the set every year, and I don’t mind the short printed cards. My only problem is that I got a refractor box with no base all refractors. At first, I was excited, thinking I was going to pull something nice but was disappointed with the results. The best card was a blue refractor Dalton Pompey auto anyways a refractor box makes it difficult to build a set. The next box I got a Jacob Degrom Chrome Commencement Red Refractor so I’ll probably buy more.

Bought one jumbo box today. Opened it up and nothing worth talking about. Oh wait I did get 3 autos of same guy in box. Not variations or parallels just base autos yes 3 identical. Pathetic box to say least. Save money for some other product.

I too am frustrated with the difficulty in identifying refractors; hope Topps is listening and brings back the refractor label on card back like they used to do.

i guess i have to open more but 90% of the autos in any color are reselling horribly. 28 year old rookies with a auto in every box. 4 teams have multiple autos in every case..other teams have none. if you get an auto there are a million on ebay for .99 cents already. i just dont know anymore…chrome baseball was never as good as football anyway. but after last year they are now equal.Topps please dont destroy the only product worth buying …ooops too late

Great cards . Kinda like card #14 Paul Konerko 2015 Topps Chrome base .The girl to the right behind Paul with the black dress, is that a wardrobe malfunction ,or an illusion ???? Either way I kinda like it !!! DJ.

I’m having a rough time determining if a base refractor card is actually a refractor…I can easily determine an x-fractor, but a regular refractor is tricky and the more I look at the card, the more my mind plays tricks on me….I hate that TOPPS didn’t put a “Refractor” somewhere on the back of the card…WHY NOT? Does anyone know if Topps did puts something somewhere to indicated a card is a refractor as opposed to a base card?

OK, this design looks much better in chrome than it does with the regular cards; I think this year’s Topps main set cards are really bad (actually, most of the Topps designs this year are pretty horrid…imho), but it does work on the Chrome release.

BUT…I could use some input or clarification on the “hits” from 2015 Chrome: I pulled a Byron Buxton printing plate (yellow) with what appears to be a gold auto. I can’t find any reference to gold autos–or I’m just really missing something obvious. A Buxton 1/1 plate auto is sweet enough, but a gold one has to be like nectar from the gods. Any direction, help, observations will be appreciated. Thanks.

Oh, I forgot to add that the Buxton plate auto came from a retail pack. I bought three of those $9.49 “3 packs PLUS an exclusive bonus pack of three somecolor refractors” this evening (hit two autos including Buxton in the lot of three). Though I don’t buy it often, right now I am very pro RETAIL!!!

Overall the design is nice. Ended up pulling an SP base in each of the 2 jumbo boxes I opened last night. Why only three stars? Because each box had two autos of the same player. C’mon, Topps. Really don’t care if one is numbered. (Might be different if the other was a 1/1). For the money, would expect autographs of 5 different players.

So what’s the chance of a topps Chrome update ? since there are a ton of players missing out of this?

hopefully bowman chrome won’t short print Correa. I like my chances with a set containing Correa and Bryant base cards.

I wonder how short the RC SPs are. Any way to find out? SP is such a vague term these days. I feel like 2015 ginter’s 300-350 wasnt even short. But getting a Topps finest Bryant is legitimately difficult.

Topps Chrome has given me great success in the past. Can’t wait for 2015 TC!! Hits in the past were a ryan vogelsong plate, Nolan Arenado RC auto, and countless god RC’s. ’14 was a Xander Bogearts atomic refractor 7/10 RC Auto and Mike Trout sepia /75!! So excited!!!

55 autos and not a single Rockies player amongst them? I get that they are not the most popular team or the best team, but they have fans too. Even if it is someone weaker like Scott Oberg or Justin Miller. I mean Gary Brown is in there and he has been cut by two different teams this season. Throw us Rockies fans a bone every now and then.

Topps Chrome has rarely been a good set for me and the lack of Braves players represented this year makes it seem like more the same. Too much of a gamble on what I’ll get for me so I will be passing on this exceptionally for maybe a couple of jumbo packs.

No Randall Grichuk auto? Dude’s killing it this year.

Why does Houston get the shaft in this product. I understand wanting to probably save Correa for Bowman Chrome but geesh how about Preston Tucker or Lance McCullers???

For such an epic rookie class, this auto checklist is very disappointing.

Some people think that Carlos Correa may have had something to do with why the release date was delayed.

Any official reason for the release date being pushed back?

Carlos Correa?

Any idea why the release was delayed ?

I’m looking forward to this release!

Stop trying so hard to be creative the borders are ugly! 2013 was one of your best card design for Topps and bowman chrome. So what did you do! GREEN IS NOT A COLOR THAT SHOULD BE USED FOR REFRACTORS OR AS CARD COLORS. I loved the magenta and desert camo cards and so does a lot of people by how much they sell for on eBay. And stop over thinking the designs!!!!!!!!!

I’m assuming kris Bryant is in this product? Hate to assume anything but if Castillo is in there..I would have to think Bryant is. Anyone, know yet? Thanks

The chrome looks REALLY GOOD on the 2015 card design (which is amazing in itself), and the autograph flows really well the the card (not to mention this years signers set is AWESOME). Can’t wait!!!!