My second case break of the year was 2021 Donruss.
This first scan features most of the base cards. The 1987 design was somewhat changed for one subset of this year's set. Primarily retired players appeared with that design. Both Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens appeared in the 1987 set as well. There is a variation on the Clemens card.
Rafael Devers is the 2021 Donruss Diamond King for the Red Sox. I was slightly surprised by this as Devers finished 12th on the team in WAR. He hit .263/.310/.483 and led the team in home runs (11, tied with Xander Bogaerts), RBIs (43) and doubles (16, tied with Alex Verdugo and J.D. Martinez). Verdugo was the WAR leader, hitting .308/.367/.478. Bogaerts was probably the team's best player as he hit. 300/.364/.502 with 11 home runs, 28 RBIs and a team-leading eight stolen bases.
The big surprise in the base set is Martin Perez. Perez was one of the more consistent starting pitchers for the team in 2020. He still was not great though, with a record of 3-5 and a 4.50 ERA. I guess Donruss wanted to include a pitcher, but Nathan Eovaldi was better, and he does not appear.
Finishing up the base set are 1987 subset cards of David Ortiz and a random appearance by Jonathan Papelbon, and the Rated Rookie card of Bobby Dalbec. Nice to see Papelbon get some appearances. Finishing off the break are some parallels of various cards. I am pretty happy to add Perez and Verdugo parallels.
And wrapping things up: more parallels. Clemens definitely took the lead in this break. He also has the best card of the break, this parallel numbered to just 75 at the end there. All in all, not a bad break. No inserts, autos or relics, but lots of parallels.
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