2024 Stadium Club Blaster

2024 Stadium Club:  Paul Skenes is the presumptive National League Rooke of the Year.  Amazing rookie season for Skenes who was 11-3 with 1.96 ERA and 170 strikeouts over 133 innings.  The Rookie of the Year awards will be announced on November 18.

I enjoy this year's design.  The last name and player position stand out on a colored background with the first name in the foil we're used to in Stadium Club.

Great photo here which we have come to expect with this brand.  I'll point out the "team collation" in this box was crazy skewed.  Here's the breakdown:  Yankees – 10  Rangers – 7  Mets – 6  Orioles – 5  Braves – 4  Diamondbacks - 3.  28 of my 40 cards were from those first four teams.  25% were Yankees alone.  Maybe I don't bring it up if 10 of my cards are Braves or Red Sox but for 17 to be Mets and Yankees makes it tough.

We love our retired greats.  Sixteen in this pack which is a win.  I really like that Mike Schmidt card.  The full beard wasn't a look we saw from him much.  Fun Matsui card as well.

The inserts aren't bad.  I like Special Forces.  Still a bit bright for this brand but I'm okay with it.  You get one Chrome in each blaster pack.  Great Corbin Carroll photo.  I don't like the Chief Fantasy Professionals insert name but it's okay.

This Chrome Green Refractor parallel comes 1:32 blaster packs.

The backs are fine.  Plenty of color and most info we want sans stats for each season.

My Sepia insert.  The name and logo are green foil which best I can tell is standard for these.

I pulled six of these Red Foil parallels.

I really like this Ozzie Albies photo.

Fun box of cards even with the heavy New York presence.  I'll look for more of these.

BREAKDOWN:
40 – Total Cards
16 – Retired Greats
6 – Chrome 
6 – Red Foil
4 - RC
1 – Sepia
1 – Special Forces
1 – Green Refractor
1 – Chief Fantasy Professionals