2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball Cards Checklist and Details
Just as it has in past years, 2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball is an all-autograph release focused on recent draft picks and other prospects from the North American and international scene.
Each box comes with six cards, all signed.
Besides Base Autographs, there are a couple of insert sets that come with different designs and more specific themes. Top Picks focuses on players taken early in the MLB Draft. Future Stars highlights key prospects.
Tim Tebow is among the players on the 2016 Leaf Metal Draft checklist.
As always, 2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball has a variety of color-based Prismatic parallels. These are similar to the Refractors found in Bowman products.
All autographs come on-card.
Production for 2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball is limited to 200 cases. Each has 12 boxes. According to Leaf, this is the product’s smallest print run to date.
2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball at a glance:
Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 6
Boxes per case: 12
Release date: December 23, 2016
What to expect in a hobby box:
• Autographs – 6
2016 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball Checklist
Base Autographs
59 cards.
Parallels:
• Blue Prismatic – /25 (except Triston McKenzie – /20)
• Purple Prismatic – /20 (except Triston McKenzie – /15)
• Pink Prismatic – /15 (except Triston McKenzie – /10)
• Black Prismatic – /10 (except Triston McKenzie – /7)
• Green Prismatic – /7 (except Triston McKenzie – /5)
• Red Prismatic – /5 (except Triston McKenzie – /3)
• Gold Prismatic – 1/1
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Super Prismatic – 1/1
BA-AB1 Alex Bregman
BA-AG1 Anfernee Grier
BA-AJP A.J. Puk
BA-AK1 Anthony Kay
BA-AK2 Alex Kirilloff
BA-AR1 Amed Rosario
BA-AV2 Alex Verdugo
BA-BG1 Braxton Garrett
BA-BR1 Brendan Rodgers
BA-BR2 Blake Rutherford
BA-CA1 Chance Adams
BA-CK1 Carter Kieboom
BA-CO1 Chris Okey
BA-CQ1 Cal Quantrill
BA-CR1 Cole Ragans
BA-CR2 Corey Ray
BA-CS1 Cody Sedlock
BA-CWH Chih-Wei Hu
BA-DC1 Dylan Carlson
BA-DD1 Dane Dunning
BA-DH1 Dakota Hudson
BA-DJ1 Daulton Jefferies
BA-DS1 Dansby Swanson
BA-EL1 Eric Lauer
BA-FW1 Forrest Whitley
BA-GL1 Gavin Lux
BA-HP1 Hudson Potts
BA-IA1 Ian Anderson
BA-ID1 Isan Diaz
BA-JD1 Justin Dunn
BA-JF1 Junior Fernandez
BA-JG1 Jason Groome
BA-JL1 Josh Lowe
BA-JO1 Josh Ockimey
BA-JS1 Jordan Sheffield
BA-JW1 Joey Wentz
BA-KG1 Kevin Gowdy
BA-KL1 Kyle Lewis
BA-KM1 Kyle Muller
BA-KT1 Kyle Tucker
BA-MM1 Matt Manning
BA-MT1 Matt Thaiss
BA-MT2 Mason Thompson
BA-NJ1 Nolan Jones
BA-NS1 Nick Senzel
BA-OV1 Omar Vizquel
BA-RP1 Riley Pint
BA-RT1 Robert Tyler
BA-TJZ T.J. Zeuch
BA-TM1 Triston McKenzie
BA-TT1 Taylor Trammell
BA-TT2 Tim Tebow
BA-WB1 Will Benson
BA-WC1 Will Craig
BA-WS1 Will Smith
BA-YCC Yu-Cheng Chang
BA-YG1 Yulieski Gurriel
BA-ZB1 Zack Burdi
BA-ZC1 Zack Collins
Inserts
Future Stars Autographs
8 cards.
Parallels:
• Blue Prismatic – /20
• Purple Prismatic – /15
• Pink Prismatic – /10
• Black Prismatic – /7
• Green Prismatic – /5
• Red Prismatic – /3
• Gold Prismatic – 1/1
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1
• Super Prismatic – 1/1
FS-AJP A.J. Puk
FS-BG1 Braxton Garrett
FS-CR2 Corey Ray
FS-IA1 Ian Anderson
FS-MM1 Matt Manning
FS-NS1 Nick Senzel
FS-RP1 Riley Pint
FS-ZC1 Zack Collins
National Pride Autographs
2 cards.
Parallels:
• Blue Prismatic – /20
• Purple Prismatic – /15
• Pink Prismatic – /10
• Black Prismatic – /7
• Green Prismatic – /5
• Red Prismatic – /3
• Gold Prismatic – 1/1
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1 (no Omar Vizquel)
• Super Prismatic – 1/1
NP-OV1 Omar Vizquel
NP-YG1 Yulieski Gurriel
State Pride Autographs
2 cards.
Parallels:
• Blue Prismatic – /25
• Purple Prismatic – /20
• Pink Prismatic – /15
• Black Prismatic – /10
• Green Prismatic – /7
• Red Prismatic – /5
• Gold Prismatic – 1/1
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1
• Super Prismatic – 1/1
SP-BR1 Brendan Rodgers
SP-KT1 Kyle Tucker
Top Picks Autographs
8 cards.
Parallels:
• Blue Prismatic – /20
• Purple Prismatic – /15
• Pink Prismatic – /10
• Black Prismatic – /7
• Green Prismatic – /5
• Red Prismatic – /3
• Gold Prismatic – 1/1
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1
• Super Prismatic – 1/1
TP-AJP A.J. Puk
TP-BG1 Braxton Garrett
TP-CR2 Corey Ray
TP-IA1 Ian Anderson
TP-MM1 Matt Manning
TP-NS1 Nick Senzel
TP-RP1 Riley Pint
TP-ZC1 Zack Collins
Comments? Questions? Contact Ryan Cracknell on Twitter @tradercracks.
The key to much of Leaf’s success in the prospect market was on-card autographs. If they’ve gone sticker, what limited interest they had will dwindle.
They are, quite frankly, terrible in their marketing. They should have adopted the Playoff contenders model and revealed print runs after allowing short prints. The search by people to identify the short prints always helped Contenders.
Of course it would also help if Beckett identified the short prints properly in the guide and did not pretend the multiples worked the same for cards of lower production levels.
When short prints are confirmed, not speculated, they should be noted.
Just spoke with Leaf CEO Brian Gray and he confirmed all autographs are ON-CARD, no stickers!!!
Leaf ANNOUNCED the short prints, but only did it in most products via ranges relative to the other cards.
Some of the cards have had declared shorter print runs and its silly when a card that has a lower production has a lower book value than the other versions of the card. Doing via multiples just fails more often than not.
Love Leaf. Feel like they are led by a real collector instead of a Marketing CEO looking a bottom lines instead of customer value and satisfaction. There designs aren’t the best. But their loyalty to give their collectors a voice, value, and openness is crazy good compared to Topps and Panini. Do you think you can email the CEO of Topps and Panini and get a personal response? If Leaf had the resources that Topps and Panini has they would corner the market and bring the prices back down to what they should be.