2025 Topps Finest Baseball: Are we talking about this?

[Jboff73]

Dropping August 12, 12pm ET.

https://www.topps.com/pages/topps-finest-baseball

Are we interested in this? Talking about it? Disappointed? Excited?

It's always a challenging design, but I like it.

The checklist and odds are up.

Nick Kurtz is there. No Roman Anthony (shocker). Drake Baldwin has no auto.

[premium1981]

I'm neutral towards it. Its a fun set, but not one of my favorites. I'm sure it will be popular, especially since they put Kurtz in it.

[phil]

Will be interesting to see how much Fanatics jacks up the price from $280 preorder. Blowout is at $500 right now.

[vinson24]

You would’ve thought with them axing Finest Flashbacks last year when it was 1997’s turn, that they would’ve put the die cut embossed refractors in this as at least a parallel set, but nope

[tyrith]

Originally Posted by Jboff73

Dropping August 12, 12pm ET.

https://www.topps.com/pages/topps-finest-baseball

Are we interested in this? Talking about it? Disappointed? Excited?

It's always a challenging design, but I like it.

The checklist and odds are up.

Nick Kurtz is there. No Roman Anthony (shocker). Drake Baldwin has no auto.

Roman's Topps Now was a call up, as soon as that happens it's a no go for current year RCs.

[hermanotarjeta]

At $500/box, we don’t talk about finest.

[ZappBrannigan]

They hired a web designer with an iStock account for this product. Crappiest looking Finest ever.

[tyrith]

The autochecklist is again rough. There are a lot of vets in the base auto set that I think are cool to see but whose cards will have no value - retired guys like Aramis Ramirez, Juan Gonzalez, Mark Buehrle, and Torii Hunter to name a few, and active vets like Christopher Morel (who had multiple TC Update Orange /25 RC PSA 10s sell for like $32 a few weeks ago), Jordan Westburg, Nico Hoerner, and Spencer Steer. There are 74 rookies in the base auto checklist.

There are some actual cool cards in here; the insert auto checklists in particular are pretty strong. But the resale on the 2024 cards is pretty soft already. For instance, there was a EDLC PSA 10 blue /99 auto that sold in early July for $565 at auction, and a green /75 PSA 10 that sold for right around $500 a couple of weeks later. A couple of PSA 9 gold /50 autos sold for around $450 in June. When a gold /50 auto of one of the best RCs in the set doesn't cover the cost of a box, there's no way to win - there are only going to be about two autos per eight box case that are numbered to /50 or less.

[anusinha]

at 500 a box youre better off with regular topps chrome

[scotchtape0]

It is fun to rip, but there’s a very high likelihood you’ll get destroyed on value like every chrome product made by Topps. They’ve put way too many parallels in the set which has devalued almost all of them.

[jraarmy]

I can not believe people still buy this at $500

[Cardsareus84]

Wouldn’t drop $500 on this checklist and the design is hideous in my opinion. The creators insert is screaming “the more you know” meme lol. Hard Pass.

[Blazed]

$500/box is crazy but it's priced for breakers not Joe Blow

It looks better than the crap Panini puts out (glitter sparkles/sprinkles/doughnuts/cupcakes)

[LVDan]

I’ll just wait for the $6-15 bum color RC autos I like and the $5 orange and gold base RCs
It’s a really good product to pick through the wreckage of others poor wax decisions.

[dodgerfanjohn]

Originally Posted by jraarmy

I can not believe people still buy this at $500

Individual collectors aren’t the target audience.

[mfw13]

Should be $80-120 a box.....

[tyrith]

Originally Posted by mfw13

Should be $80-120 a box.....

As much as I am on the don't open wax soapbox, I don't think this is a realistic way to look at things. If this was $1,000 a case we'd be back to do the days where you could crack wax and make money. That's not going to be a thing in a world where it's as easy to BST cards as it is now, not when opening wax is fun.

[jraarmy]

Originally Posted by dodgerfanjohn

Individual collectors aren’t the target audience.

Never said it was but people are buying at $500 not just breakers and I can’t believe it

[tyrith]

Originally Posted by jraarmy

Never said it was but people are buying at $500 not just breakers and I can’t believe it

This is 100% true - I know there are multiple LCS within 15 minutes of me that will get at least half a case of this stuff and it'll be gone in a few days.

[rcgdodge]

Why don’t they do Finest Greats anymore? 2014 greats are some of the best looking cards around.

[callou2131]

I loved last years finest. This year...$500 a box? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[corockies]

Finest has turned into the red headed stepchild's sister of sets.

Bowman's Best is still the clear red headed stepchild.

[mfw13]

Originally Posted by rcgdodge

Why don’t they do Finest Greats anymore? 2014 greats are some of the best looking cards around.

Because the product sells out to breakers even without them.

So why would Fanatics spend the extra $$$ to secure more autos of HOFers?

It's the same reason why they dropped the 5x7 boxtoppers and minis from Heritage.

[mfw13]

Originally Posted by corockies

Finest has turned into the red headed stepchild's sister of sets.

Bowman's Best is still the clear red headed stepchild.

Like Gold Label, it's a product that was cool for the first few years after it was revived, but has now become tired and stale.

[okumeister]

I don't know why everyone is assuming $500 for this product.
Topps twitter has announced it as $300.
Still high, but info should be corrected.

Design wise, Finest is one of my favorites.
It just sucks that value never catches up to the product pricing.