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Been a long time since I opened any boxes and thought I'd go to Walmart to see if they had any deals on blasters. -Unfortunately they didn't, but I decided to pick up 3 2012 Bowman Chrome blasters and a 2012 Value Box. Here's the notable cards:

Blaster 1:
Base
Strasburg
Sabathia
Goldschmidt
Juaner Agusvivas (tigers prospect; .315 Avg, .567 SLG)

Refractor
Michael Earley (white sox)
Matt Hague (pirates)

All-Star Futures Game
Michael Choice (athletics)

X-Fractor
J.P. Arencibia
Juan Lagares (mets)
Jimmy Rollins

Blaster 2:

Base
Granderson
Konerko
Nova

Refractor
Mariano Rivera
Eric Hosmer

Franchise All-Stars
Andrew McCutchen/Gerrit Cole
Carlos Beltran/Oscar Tavares

X-Fractor
Ian Kinsler
Domingo Tapia (mets)
Jose Reyes

Auto
John Hellweg (angels)

Blaster 3:

Base
Verlander
Jeter
Refractor
Alen Hanson (pirates)
Yunel Escobar

All-Star Futures Game
Enny Romero (rays)

X-Fractor
Salvador Perez
Bobby Bundy
Jose Bautista

Auto
Jake Marisnick (blue jays prospect; .320 AVG; 14 HR; 77 RBI)

VALUE BOX (6 A&G, 3 Bowman Platinum, 2 Topps Chrome)

A&G

Base

Bryce Harper (RC)
Ichiro
Nolan Ryan
Matt Cain

Minis
Darvish (RC)
Jonah (people of the bible)
Adam Dunn
Carlos Santana (A&G back)
Doug Fister (A&G back)
Josh Willingham (black)

Topps Chrome

Base
Trubo
Beckett
M. Montero
Cozart
Kinsler
A. Gordon
Morneau
Nyjer Morgan

Platinum

Base
Verlander
Darvish
Strasburg

Platinum Prospects
Marcell Ozuna (marlins)

Gold
Alex Gordon

Auto
David Buchanan (phillies; 2010 1st round draft pick (no. 7 overall)

All and all, nothing spectacular, but I'm not disappointed either. Happy I got 3 autos, a Harper RC, and a couple Verlanders.