One box, four real hits. That's a good day with a Costco Superbox.

The headliner was a Chase DeLauter Home Field case hit. Case hits don't come out of stacked boxes very often, and DeLauter's bat still plays even after a slower path through the minors than Guardians fans hoped for.

Bryce Eldridge's rookie numbered /2026 was a nice surprise as well. Giants fans have been patient with him for two years now, and the power looks real enough to profile as a middle of the order first baseman. This card is worth getting excited about.

The Topps Chrome Bobby Witt Jr. Highlight Reels out of the flagship packs was just a fun pull. Witt doesn't need the hype, he's already the best shortstop in the sport, but a shiny insert of the best player in baseball never hurts resale. And, it's just a beautiful card.

The one staying in the PC: an oversized '91 Nick Kurtz. Kurtz has been one of the best and most collectable young first basemen in baseball, and that throwback design looks pretty sweet blown up to oversized. That one's going in the collection, not on eBay.

Two Finest Megas land on the porch today, right on release day. Finest is one of more upscale products I personally buy sealed and is just this year available in Mega, so I'll have plenty to say about it in the next issue.

This is the highlight weeks of the summer. The MLB Draft runs July 11 and 12 in Philadelphia, the All-Star Game is three days later on July 14 at Citizens Bank Park, in the same city, and the Futures Game sits right in between on July 12. Three of the biggest hobby moments of the year, back to back, same city.

National TV exposure moves cards fast. Top All-Star performers have historically seen price jumps of 30 percent within 48 hours of a strong showing. The Futures Game gets the same treatment for prospects who haven't debuted yet, and Munetaka Murakami Chrome and JJ Wetherholt parallels are already drawing heavy bidding ahead of it.

Then Draft Day complicates things further. Leaf Metal Draft Baseball hits shelves July 10, a day before the draft even starts, which means collectors are buying autographs of players nobody has actually picked yet. The White Sox hold the first pick and a $17.59 million bonus pool built around it, the largest since the bonus pool era began in 2012.

Patient play: let the picks happen before you buy into the new class, and let the All-Star spike cool for a week or two before chasing anyone's card at peak price. Both crowds are buying on adrenaline this week. You don't have to.

Kevin McGonigle made the All-Star team in his age-21 season, and he did it without ever settling into a normal rookie year. He got four hits in his MLB debut on Opening Day, including a two-RBI double off Nick Pivetta, and became the youngest player with four or more hits on Opening Day since Ken Griffey Jr. and Delino DeShields Jr. in 1990. He won AL Rookie of the Month in April and is hitting .282 with a .390 on-base percentage, 6 home runs, and 9 steals through his first taste of the show.

The path here wasn't a mystery if you were paying attention. Detroit took him 37th overall in 2023 out of Monsignor Bonner in the Philadelphia suburbs, and he mashed at every level: FSL MVP in 2024, an AFL MVP nod in 2025, plus a .372 average at High-A West Michigan before a midseason promotion to Double-A Erie.

Here's the part that makes the card interesting right now. McGonigle doesn't have an official flagship rookie card yet. His 2026 Topps Series 2 base card is a short print, not the standard numbered RC collectors usually chase, and the real flagship rookie is still on the way in Topps Update later this year. That means the true rookie chase right now runs through his first Bowman Chrome autograph, sitting around $129 ungraded and $620 in a PSA 10.

That's not cheap for a prospect card, but it's still ahead of where the flagship Update RC is going to land once print runs settle and the card actually exists in hobby boxes.