Toronto Blue Jays: A personal guide to collecting players in Bowman 2020

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Insert Cards

For those of you who don’t collect baseball cards, an insert is a card that has a different design when compared to the base cards and is found a different rate and frequency (and typically a higher rarity) than most cards in the box.

This year, Bowman 2020 is doing a throwback to the 1990 Bowman set, where players from today will be featured on cards that are designed like they were back in 1990 when this set was released.

All of these cards come in refractors (more info here on refractors), and the Blue Jays have two players in this set: #90B-BB Bo Bichette and #90B-NP Nate Pearson.

Next, we have the Bowman Scouts Top 100, which features the top prospects from across the league with each player’s corresponding card number relating to their position within the top 100 rankings. The Blue Jays have Nate Pearson (#BTP-10) and Jordan Groshans (#BTP-47) in this set.

Three active roster MLB Blue Jays players also found themselves in the Hidden Finds set, featuring catcher Danny Jansen (#HF-DJ), 1st baseman Rowdy Tellez (#HF-RT), and starting pitcher Ryan Borucki (#HF-RB).

A new insert to the Bowman 2020 product is “Spanning the Globe”. These are cards that feature a player that grew up or was born in various countries around the world (outside of the USA) and highlights their country of origin on the front of the card.

The Toronto Blue Jays have two players in this set, Canadian born Dasan Brown (#STG-DB) and Brazilian Eric Pardinho (#STG-EP). These cards are similar to the Bowman 1990 in that they are also only refractors.

Rounding out the Blue Jays insert checklist, there is Bo Bichette in the Rookie of the Year Favorites set and the Talent Pipeline, which highlights a player from each of the tiers of the MILB in A, AA, and AAA. In 2020, the Blue Jays will feature Eric Pardinho (A), Kevin Smith (AA), and Nate Pearson (AAA) on this insert.