After a long summer filled mostly with lackluster releases of products without licensing from Major League Baseball and expensive, high-end releases from Topps that priced out most collectors, a hobby mainstay returns on September 16.

2022 Topps Chrome Baseball is back in stores with a 225-card set with the final five cards in the set featuring some of the year’s top rookies in a shorter print run then the other 220-cards in the set. Topps Chrome Baseball puts a spin on their flagship release with a smaller set focusing on top players and rookies printed with the same design on thicker stock with a more chrome or “metal like” feel to the product.

First printed way back in 1996, Topps Chrome Baseball was known to bow or curl and was not well received by collectors. Over the years, Topps has made improvements to the product and has become a popular hobby staple.

Like the Topps flagship release, Chrome features numerous insert sets, even more parallel sets with an outrageous and unnecessary 20 different types of refractors, and it’s biggest feature, autographs.

Chrome also includes insert sets printed on the 1987 Topps “Woodie” design and a memorabilia card, Topps Chrome Authentics, that features a swatch of fabric that has been authenticated by MLB authentication. Each memorabilia card features a hologram that links to a database that informs collectors of the exact game the swatch comes from.

Although the base set only includes seven Mets cards, Topps made strong choices for the team set and gives collectors the opportunity to chase three different autographed Pete Alonso cards and a Jeff McNeil memorabilia card.

Below you will find a full checklist of all of the Mets cards available in the 2022 Topps Chrome Baseball release and stay tuned for a look back at some of the previous Topps Chrome Baseball releases.

Base
2 Jeff McNeil
66 Max Scherzer
125 Jacob deGrom
132 Starling Marte
166 Francisco Lindor
209 Pete Alonso
212 Tylor Megill (rookie card)

1987 Topps Baseball
87BC-7 Jacob deGrom
87BC-10 Pete Alonso

1987 Topps Baseball Autographs
87BA-PA Pete Alonso

Chrome Rookie Autographs
RA-PM Patrick Mazeika
RA-TM Tylor Megill

Chrome Veteran Autographs
CVA-MC Mark Canha
CVA-TW Taijuan Walker

Heart of the City
HOC-4 Pete Alonso

Heart of the City Autographs
HOCA-PA Pete Alonso (numbered to 99)

Pinstriped
P-11 Pete Alonso
P-23 Jacob deGrom

Pinstriped Autographs
PA-PA Pete Alonso

SP (Short Print) Image Variations
66 Max Scherzer
166 Francisco Lindor

Topps Chrome Authentics
TCT-JM Jeff McNeil