2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Value Pack

    Hello all. Today I go with another 2010 Bowman product in the form of a "Value" rack pack. I will preface this post with the fact that I am not a prospector so the odds of me being very happy with this pack are not great. I also don't think $5 for a dozen cards is exactly a "value" but I know this product is not cheap going in and I figured since a lot of people collect this stuff, I would buy one pack for the sake of this blog and maybe I will get lucky with some Mets and Yankees prospects for the team collections. As always, any non-keepers for me are up for trade.

2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Value Pack

    The top half of the rack pack has 8 regular cards while the bottom has 4 cards including the 3 promised chromes.

#BDP67 Tommy Manzella RC (Astros)

#BDP59 Drew Stubbs RC (Reds)

#BDP102 Ryan Kalish RC (Red Sox)

#BDP39 Fernando Salas RC (Cardinals)

 Four RC's right off the top. I figured there would be some RC's so that's always a plus. I don't know any of these 4 so that's a minus.

#BDPP85 Ryan Bolden (Angels)

#BDPP22 Nick Longmire (Cardinals)

#BDPP14 Addison Reed (White Sox)

#BDPP77 Josh Sale (Rays)

    Surprisingly I recognize a prospect. Josh Sale has some serious buzz as he enters the Rays system.

Chrome #BDPP83 Delino DeShields (Astros)

Chrome #BDPP20 Blake Forsythe (Mets)

Chrome #BDP24 Chris Nelson RC (Rockies)

    I like the shiny's and a good Mets prospect for the collection. DeShields name may sound familiar since his father (Delino also) played for 13 seasons for 5 different Major League teams.


And in between the chromes was this card.

#USAR-2 Cole Billingsley game used jersey (Team USA 16U) sn'd 719/949

    I was quite surprised when this jersey card popped out. I am happy to pull a jersey hit but a 16 year old high school player is not exactly my idea of a big score. This card does fit into my American flag collection though so I will keep it unless somebody really wants it and has an interesting offer.

Some backs.

BY THE NUMBERS:
Total Cards: 12

Teams Represented: 10
Rookie Cards: 5 ( Stubbs, Kalish, Salas, Manzella, Nelson) 
Sub Sets: 0
Parallels: 3 (Chromes) 
Inserts: 1 (Billingsley jersey)
Hits: 1 (Billingsley jersey) 
Keepers for Me: 2 (Forsythe, Billingsley jersey)



MY RATINGS:
Front Design: 7 out of 10 Good in game shots on most cards, Nice layout, team logo.
Back Design: 6.5 out of 10  Typical Bowman design, good info, team logo, only 1 year stats.

Player Selection: 4.5 out of 10  Below Average, I know a few but not many.

FINAL OVERALL RATING: 2 RBI Double in the gap. A jersey card makes a solid hit and a chrome Mets prospect makes it even better but I can't go more then a double on this one.

Lets hear your ratings on this pack.

Thanks for Reading!