2023 Topps Finest Baseball Checklist, Team Set Lists and Details
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Think of 2023 Topps Finest Baseball as the season’s jazz ensemble when it comes to chrome. While Topps Chrome and Bowman Chrome typically take a retread route of recreating and extending existing sets from the same year, Finest follows its own beat with lots of color and bold designs.
Packaged as a pair of six-pack mini boxes, full hobby boxes deliver a pair of autographs. Refractors and a handful of inserts can also be expected.
2023 Topps Finest Baseball Checklist Overview
There’s a couple of levels to the 125-card base set. The first 100 make up the main shell set, highlighting veterans and rookies from across MLB.
Refractors? The checklist has lots of them:
- Refractors – 1:3 packs
- Sky Blue Refractors – /300
- Blue/Aqua Vapor Refractors – /250
- Purple Refractors – /250
- Aqua Refractors – /199
- Aqua Shimmer Refractors – /25
- Blue Refractors – /150
- Green Speckle Refractors – /125
- Green Refractors – /99
- Lava Green Refractors – /99
- Rose Gold Refractors – /75
- Gold Refractors – /50
- Orange Refractors – /25
- Red/Black Vapor Refractors – /10
- Red Refractors – /5
- Purple/Pink Vapor Refractors – /3
- Superfractors – 1/1
The final 25 cards make up the Extended Base Set. Available in shorter supply, they also have a smaller parallel rainbow that’s limited to just Gold Refractors (/50), Red Refractors (/5) and Superfractors (1/1).
Autographs and Other Inserts
Finest Rookie Design Variations (1:24 packs) offer up a different look for key first-year players. The layout on these would fit right in with Finest sets from the late 1990s and early ’00s. Refractors (/99), Gold Refractors (/50), Red Refractors (/5) and Superfractors (1/1) are also available for these.
World’s Finest (1:4 packs) draws its inspiration from a 2000-01 Topps Finest Basketball insert set. This time around, there’s more of a change than just sports. Here, the set gets specific, commemorating the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Finest Headliners (1:6 packs) and Finest Rivalries Die-Cuts (1:48 packs) are among the other insert sets.
All three have a similar mix of Gold Refractor (/50), Red Refractor (/5) and Superfractor (1/1) parallels. Select World’s Finest and Finest Headliners cards also have limited autograph versions with additional Orange Refractors (/25), Red Refractors (/5) and Superfractors (1/1).
Finest Rivalries has dual autographs as well. These have just 10 copies each.
Diamond Finest cards are extremely scarce with just five copies each plus one-of-one Superfractor parallels.
Most of the signatures in 2023 Topps Finest Baseball fall under one of two umbrellas. Finest Autographs carry a similar design as the base set. Finest Rookie Variations Autographs adapt the similar inserts.
Both have mirroring parallels:
- Blue Refractors – /150
- Green Refractors – /99
- Green Wave Refractors – /99
- Gold Refractors – /50
- Gold Wave Refractors – /50
- Orange Refractors – /25
- Orange Wave Refractors – /25
- Red Refractors – /5
- Red Wave Refractors – /5
- Superfractors – 1/1
Finest Moments return, combining signatures with memorable highlights. The modest parallel lineup for these include Gold Refractors (/50), Orange Refractors (/25), Red Refractors (/5) and Superfractors (1/1).
A Finest Mystery Redemption (/99) features a surprise player and signature.
Finally, Finest Originals Buyback Autographs take old cards from the brand’s past and add players’ penmanship.
2023 Topps Finest Baseball cards at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 5
Packs per box: Hobby – 12 (two 6-pack mini boxes)
Boxes per case: Hobby – 8
Set size: 125 cards
Release date: July 7, 2023
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What to expect in a hobby box:
- Autographs – 2
- 2000 Topps Finest World’s Finest – 3
- Finest Headliners – 2
- Refractors – 4
2023 Topps Finest Baseball Checklist
You can also download a customizable spreadsheet copy of the checklist:
Please note that print runs for cards without serial numbers have not been announced.
Base Set Checklist
125 cards.
Extended Base Set SP – #101-125
Parallels:
- Refractors – (1:3 packs)
- Sky Blue Refractors – /300
- Blue/Aqua Vapor Refractors – /250
- Purple Refractors – /250
- Aqua Refractors – /199
- Aqua Shimmer Refractors – /25
- Blue Refractors – /150
- Green Speckle Refractors – /125
- Green Refractors – /99
- Lava Green Refractors – /99
- Rose Gold Refractors – /75
- Gold Refractors – /50
- Orange Refractors – /25
- Red/Black Vapor Refractors – /10
- Red Refractors – /5
- Purple/Pink Vapor Refractors – /3
- Superfractors – 1/1
1 Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
2 Simeon Woods Richardson, Minnesota Twins RC
3 Shea Langeliers, Oakland Athletics RC
4 Nick Pratto, Kansas City Royals RC
5 Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays
6 JJ Bleday, Oakland Athletics RC
7 Carlos Correa, Minnesota Twins
8 Michael Toglia, Colorado Rockies RC
9 Oneil Cruz, Pittsburgh Pirates
10 Riley Greene, Detroit Tigers RC
11 Brayan Bello, Boston Red Sox RC
12 Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
13 Oswald Peraza, New York Yankees RC
14 Javier Báez, Detroit Tigers
15 Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
16 Ketel Marte, Arizona Diamondbacks
17 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
18 Alex Bregman, Houston Astros
19 Logan O’Hoppe, Los Angeles Angels RC
20 Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
21 Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
22 Adley Rutschman, Baltimore Orioles (RC)
23 Shane McClanahan, Tampa Bay Rays
24 Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks RC
25 Brandon Crawford, San Francisco Giants
26 Anthony Volpe, New York Yankees RC
27 Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox
28 Shane Bieber, Cleveland Guardians
29 Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
30 Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves
31 Cal Mitchell, Pittsburgh Pirates RC
32 Hunter Greene, Cincinnati Reds
33 Miguel Vargas, Los Angeles Dodgers RC
34 Michael Harris II, Atlanta Braves RC
35 Zack Wheeler, Philadelphia Phillies
36 Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox
37 Max Meyer, Miami Marlins RC
38 Óscar González, Cleveland Guardians RC
39 Wander Franco, Tampa Bay Rays
40 Brett Baty, New York Mets RC
41 Oswaldo Cabrera, New York Yankees RC
42 Nolan Arenado, St. Louis Cardinals
43 Brice Turang, Milwaukee Brewers RC
44 José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians
45 Michael Conforto, San Francisco Giants
46 Christopher Morel, Chicago Cubs RC
47 Jonathan Aranda, Tampa Bay Rays RC
48 Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
49 Lenyn Sosa, Chicago White Sox RC
50 Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres
51 Shintaro Fujinami, Oakland Athletics RC
52 Cade Cavalli, Washington Nationals RC
53 Ken Waldichuk, Oakland Athletics RC
54 Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
55 Kris Bryant, Colorado Rockies
56 Oscar Colás, Chicago White Sox RC
57 Pete Alonso, New York Mets
58 Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals
59 Jacob deGrom, Texas Rangers
60 Jordan Walker, St. Louis Cardinals RC
61 Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros
62 Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
63 Willson Contreras, St. Louis Cardinals
64 Luis Castillo, Seattle Mariners
65 Vinnie Pasquantino, Kansas City Royals RC
66 Bo Naylor, Cleveland Guardians RC
67 Garrett Mitchell, Milwaukee Brewers RC
68 Joey Meneses, Washington Nationals RC
69 Hunter Brown, Houston Astros RC
70 Ezequiel Durán, Texas Rangers RC
71 J.T. Realmuto, Philadelphia Phillies
72 Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies
73 DL Hall, Baltimore Orioles RC
74 Kodai Senga, New York Mets RC
75 Josh Jung, Texas Rangers RC
76 Masataka Yoshida, Boston Red Sox RC
77 Matthew Liberatore, St. Louis Cardinals RC
78 Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
79 Jazz Chisholm Jr., Miami Marlins
80 Ezequiel Tovar, Colorado Rockies RC
81 Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds
82 Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers
83 Liover Peguero, Pittsburgh Pirates RC
84 Manny Machado, San Diego Padres
85 Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays
86 Francisco Álvarez, New York Mets RC
87 Logan Webb, San Francisco Giants
88 Vaughn Grissom, Atlanta Braves RC
89 Gabriel Moreno, Arizona Diamondbacks RC
90 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
91 Julio Rodríguez, Seattle Mariners
92 Nolan Gorman, St. Louis Cardinals RC
93 Max Scherzer, New York Mets
94 Juan Soto, San Diego Padres
95 Spencer Steer, Cincinnati Reds RC
96 Seiya Suzuki, Chicago Cubs
97 Esteury Ruiz, Oakland Athletics RC
98 Byron Buxton, Minnesota Twins
99 Cal Raleigh, Seattle Mariners
100 Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles RC
Extended Base Set
Parallels:
- Gold Refractors – /50
- Red Refractors – /5
- Superfractors – 1/1
101 Alek Thomas, Arizona Diamondbacks
102 Ozzie Albies, Atlanta Braves
103 Cedric Mullins, Baltimore Orioles
104 Xander Bogaerts, San Diego Padres
105 Tim Anderson, Chicago White Sox
106 Jonathan India, Cincinnati Reds
107 Andrés Giménez, Cleveland Guardians
108 Sandy Alcantara, Miami Marlins
109 Jeremy Peña, Houston Astros
110 Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals
111 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
112 Willy Adames, Milwaukee Brewers
113 Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves
114 CJ Abrams, Washington Nationals
115 Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees
116 Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
117 Rhys Hoskins, Philadelphia Phillies
118 Anthony Rizzo, New York Yankees
119 Justin Verlander, New York Mets
120 Alek Manoah, Toronto Blue Jays
121 George Kirby, Seattle Mariners
122 Dylan Carlson, St. Louis Cardinals
123 Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays
124 Marcus Semien, Texas Rangers
125 George Springer, Toronto Blue Jays
How is Jermaine Palacios in this set? I pulled his auto and had to look him up. Batted under .200 in his one stint, got released, is currently a 27 yo free agent. FINEST???