Dodgers Blue Heaven: 2016 Bowman Chrome Baseball

Friday, September 09, 2016

2016 Bowman Chrome Baseball - The Dodgers Base Cards

The newest product to hit the hobby shelves is Topps 2016 Bowman Chrome Baseball card set. As always, it tends to focus on many of the prospects we have been reading about. Go here for a complete checklist.

This years set includes the very first Bowman base cards for Oneal Cruz and Yadir Drake. Hilariously, Yadir Drake is no longer with the Dodgers. As an 26-year old Cuban signee Drake had to outperform at the lower levels in the minor right away in order to have a real shot at any Major League dreams. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Yadir slashed .109/.155/.127/.282 while with the Tulsa Drillers earlier this season, and was subsequently released by the team on May 27th. Why Topps decided to give him a card?... I dunno.

Oneal Cruz, on the other hand, was sixteen years old when he signed with the Dodgers last year, and performed quite well during his first year of professional play in the Dominican Summer League. He slashed .294/.367/.444/.811 as a seventeen year old. BTW, this isn't exactly Oneal's first pro card. He actually has another Bowman card found in the 2016 Bowman set, but it's an "International Signings" insert card (see that here).