Thursday 15 August 2024

Your 2024 Donruss Mets

 A whole bunch of group break Mets.

There are definite differences between various teams in this. In comparison, the Jays had zero content in the veterans portion of the base set. The Mets got 7. I'm not sure how Alvarez still counts towards this set given licensing issues. Maybe he signed an individual contract? Either way, getting a Bobby Valentine card in 2024 is amazingly great.
And in comparison to 2 for the Jays, the Mets have 6 cards in the higher number Rated Prospect portion of the set. 
Optic parallels are mixed in with regular Donruss this year. Here's a nice selection of them. I'd complain that I wanted to get a Bobby Valentine here...
But I ended up with a trio of shiny parallels of his. 2 silver base and one Optic holo. And that's it for unnumbered parallels.

As for the numbered variety:
Here's Colin Houck in purple form.
And in Pink Velocity as well.
Joining those is an autographed parallel, meaning this break almost doubled the Houck portion of the collection to 9 total - all Panini issues.
Everything so far has been a parallel, even the auto. So, finally I get to show off an insert. Again, I have no idea how Alvarez still qualifies for an unlicensed set, but I'll just assume some lawyer signed off on it. 

But there you have it!



1 comment:

  1. Yeah, it's really strange that they can get away with cards of guys who are no longer rookie-eligible, but, hey, more cards of Álvarez is always a good thing.

    Nice to see Valentine in there, but it would be nice if they could get some of the current managers.

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