Minors Heritage: First two, Last three

The same day that I snagged all that lovely Certified I decided to grab five packs ($20) of the Heritage Minors that were sitting on the shelf. Each box contains two autos and one relic in addition to the slew of prospects you get from a respectable set like Topps Heritage (and most of the shots are more action shots than the MLB Heritage, so that's a plus). Anyway to start with the base cards:

A couple nice prospect names that are familiar to me in Yasmani Grandal and Jurickson Profar. Oh and look at this it's Cory Spangenberg, one of the players, who spent a bit of his summer in Eugene. I had the pleasure of watching him lead the Emeralds to a 15-game winning streak this summer! He was called up and continued to play well, this kid has promise and he's super humble. Now the Autos, the autos?! Yeah I got the two autos in my 5-packs!

Brad Chalk and Blake Tekotte. Both are /861, I like these autos. I knew what to expect and these are pretty clean, especially for minor league cards that generally don't take the time to care for design. The Tekotte is probably the best card and he should arrive in the majors shortly. Now for the relic! Yep, that's right I got the two autos AND the relic in my 5-pack selection:

Delino DeShields Jr. Red Tint relic /99. Delino is in the Astros system and being the son of a major leaguer albeit Delino DeShields, he has a nice path to the majors. I actually really like these relic cards. I know I said most of these were action shots, but this one isn't... oh well. It's a nice card and I got super lucky with my 5-pack selection which was my theory that boxes are front or back loaded (I chose the first two and the last three) The first two had the relic, the last three had the two autos. No, I'm not a pack searcher! This is just my theory and it's success is about as common as T206 Honus Wagner.

Anyway, this is a nice product. I don't know how many of you follow the minor league affiliates of your favorite teams, but there were a lot of nice prospect cards in here. Names like; Manny Machado, Jake Odorizzi, Gary Sanchez, Zach Wheeler, Brett Jackson, etc. Plus I believe there are Bryce Harper's in this set. And it's pretty affordable - $40 for a 24-pack box from Blowout Cards. Anyway, all of these cards are available for trade except the Spangenberg.