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2026 Bowman
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The ten 1st Bowman Chrome Autographs we track from the 2026 Bowman class, ranked by what they have sold for in the last 30 days.

The plain read

These are the ten 2026 Bowman prospects we track, ranked by what their 1st Bowman autographs (prospect cards, not rookie cards) sell for right now. #1 is the card whose recent sales run highest. Each card gets our call and the reason, one tap away. Prospect cards are long holds: prices follow a player's minor-league progress over months, not days.

● Updated Oct 20, 2026 ⚾ 10 1st Bowman Chrome Autos 📊 On-card autos only · ungraded 💰 Sold prices · SportsCardsPro

How this board is ranked ▸

The card is the on-card auto, not the base 1st Bowman Chrome and not a graded copy. Ranked on recent sales — the median of the card’s dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days — highest first, and a card has to have actually sold in the last 30 days to be ranked. A player with a 1st Bowman Chrome does not automatically get a 1st Bowman Chrome Auto; when he does, the auto is the card that carries his market. Full-set coverage — autos and base together — lives in the set indices.

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Ranked by the Sold Mark

The Top 5 — 1st Bowman Chrome Autos, Ranked by Sold Mark

Ranked on one ladder: the sold mark of the raw 1st Bowman Chrome Auto, the 30-day median of its dated SportsCardsPro sales. A card needs a sale inside that 30-day window to rank.

The Board

Ranked by the 30-day sold mark · must have sold in the last 30 days · ▲▼ = moved since your last visit

Oct 20 board TopGonzales +2.2% $68.50 → $70.00 BottomFlorentino −13.7% $65.50 → $56.53 SeatsNo seat moved $1.53 between #4 and #5 Full read ↓

#	Card	Prospect	Price	Signal

Benchmark: BB26 — 2026 Bowman (May) 1st Auto Index · 69.90 on Oct 19, −30.10% since the May 2026 release month (100 = May 2026) · sold basis · the board ranks five May autos and makes calls; the index prices the whole class and makes none

How to read this board

One ladder: the sold mark — the median of the card’s dated sales over the last 30 days — highest first. Changed Sep 29, 2026: until then the number beside each seat was SportsCardsPro’s raw guide value, which this page called the last printed sale. It was not; see the Sep 29 method change. A card that has not printed a sale in 30 days cannot outrank a card that has — that is the liquidity gate, and it is why Kim’s carried $130.00 — the highest number on the board — sat at #5, below every card that had printed inside 30 days, until Oct 6, when he came off the board (see Off the Board below) because a card with no sale in 30 days has no 30-day sold mark to rank on. Nothing else moves a seat: not the ask mark, not our verdict, and not the graded copy. Changed Sep 17, 2026. This board used to rank on two ladders, raw and PSA 10 together. The graded ladder is gone. Four of the five PSA 10 figures it ranked on had no verified sale behind them anywhere on this site; we wrote at the time that Holliday’s $720 did. Corrected Sep 22, 2026: it does not. The Aug 6 sale we were pointing at is a PSA 9 at $155.00, and no PSA 10 sale of that card appears on the tape at all. Re-reading the graded tape card by card also found two figures in the other direction — Fischer and Florentino do have dated PSA 10 sales, $650.00 on Sep 7 and $492.00 on Aug 17 — so this page now carries a graded figure for those two and says no verified sale for Holliday, Gonzales and Kim. Graded figures now appear on this page only where we can point at a dated sale — the rule the card pages have already been running since Sep 16 — and where we cannot, the page says no verified sale instead of printing a number. The reorder that came with it is a change of method, not of view: Fischer takes #1 on a $148.32 printed sale, Holliday is #2, and not one verdict moved. Sold = a real completed sale (SportsCardsPro). Sold mark = the median of those sales over 30 days; every seat also prints its last sale and that sale’s date. Asking = what sellers are listing at on eBay tonight — always higher than sold, never a price you should pay. PSA 10 = the graded copy, printed only where a dated sale exists behind it. ▲▼ = moved up or down since last week. Every price carries the date we read it. When a card has no real sale to point to, we say so instead of guessing. Our calls are long-hold calls. A Buy here means we think you'll be glad you own the card a year from now — not that it goes up next week. Every call is graded at 6 and 12 months on the Scorecard.

This Week On The Tape · Oct 20, 2026

⚡ Oct 20 board: Florentino −13.7% to $56.53, Gonzales +2.2% to $70.00, Holliday −1.6% to $108.75, Fischer −0.4% to $152.85 and Aloy unchanged at $55.00; no seat moved, and $1.53 now separates #4 from #5. (Sold mark = the median of each card’s dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days, read Oct 20. Moves are against the Oct 13 mark, the last read.) Top: Gonzales +2.2% ($68.50 → $70.00 on 13 sales Sep 20–Oct 20); last sale $65.00 on Oct 16. Bottom: Florentino −13.7% ($65.50 → $56.53 on 12 sales), the board’s largest move either way; last sale $56.06 on Oct 19. That puts his mark under the $65 line in his box, and by our own words the buyers who carried him onto this board have stepped back. His Aug 18 Buy was graded wrong, final, on Oct 13; nothing is renewed. The call we own this week: Fischer. His $115 line read as a print level, and two prints have now landed under it: $105.00 on Oct 8 and $108.50 on Oct 19. We reworded it as a mark level on Oct 20. The mark is $152.85 on 18 sales, so the Hold stands, and it breaks if the mark falls under $115. The rest: Holliday $110.50 → $108.75 on 8 sales, the thinnest count on the board (last sale $107.50 on Oct 14); Aloy $55.00 on 13 sales (last sale $66.00 on Oct 19). Corrected Oct 20, 2026: Holliday’s box said his only 2026 Bowman Chrome (Sep) card was base BCP-209. The set also carries a Mega Box auto, CPA-EHO. Neither is a 1st; his 1st auto is still 2026 Bowman (May) CPA-EH. Watch the #4/#5 line: Florentino leads Aloy by $1.53. Seats: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Aloy. Full ledger on the Scorecard.

This Week On The Tape · Oct 13, 2026

⚡ Oct 13 board: Holliday +5.2% to $110.50, Florentino −5.1% to $65.50, Gonzales −2.1% to $68.50, Fischer −1.0% to $153.50 and Aloy −3.5% to $55.00; no seat moved, and Florentino’s Aug 18 Buy is graded wrong at −17.4%. (Sold mark = the median of each card’s dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days, read Oct 13. Moves are against the Oct 6 mark, the last read.) Top: Holliday +5.2% ($105.00 → $110.50 on 11 sales Sep 13–Oct 13); his last sale is $139.99 on Oct 8, 27% above the mark, and it is one print. Bottom: Florentino −5.1% ($69.00 → $65.50 on 12 sales, down from 19 as older sales leave the window), the board’s largest fall; last sale $72.00 on Oct 9. The call we own this week: the Buy logged Aug 18 at $79.32 reached its Oct 13 finalization date, and on the sold mark it reads −17.4%. By the rule on the Scorecard (wrong at −10% or worse) it is graded wrong, final. We are not renewing it, and his verdict below now reads Watch. His $65.00 line, the level under which we said the buyers had stepped back, sits $0.50 under the mark. Fischer −1.0% ($155.00 → $153.50 on 19 sales, down from 25): two sales printed on Oct 8, $105.00 and $117.50, both far under the mark, and the $115 level in his box is a print level, so we say plainly that one of them is under it. A median of 19 held; the Hold stands. The rest: Gonzales $70.00 → $68.50 on 18 sales (last sale $65.00 Oct 8), now $3.00 ahead of Florentino for #3; Aloy $57.00 → $55.00 on 13 sales (last sale $50.00 Oct 9). Kim has still not sold since Aug 5; his Wait call was also due Oct 13 and is final, inside the band, not graded. Seats: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Aloy. Full ledger on the Scorecard.

This Week On The Tape · Oct 6, 2026

⚡ Oct 6 board: Fischer +4.2% to $155.00, Gonzales −11.9% to $70.00, Holliday −2.6% to $105.00 and Florentino −0.7% to $69.00; Kim comes off the board with no sale since Aug 5 and Aloy takes #5 at $57.00. (Sold mark = the median of each card’s dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days, read Oct 6. Moves are against the Sep 29 mark, the last read.) Two things moved on the ladder: Kim is out, and Aloy is in. Kim: his last sale is $122.50 on Aug 5, so he has no 30-day mark (his 90-day median is $130.00 on 5 sales), and the rule on this page is that a card needs a sale inside 30 days to rank. We parked him at #5 on that gate on Sep 18; with nothing printed in the 30 days since, there is no mark to rank, and he moves to Off the Board and the watch tier with his Pass intact. Aloy: $57.00 on 19 sales Sep 6–Oct 6, the highest sold mark of any card not already seated. The next two are Gage Jump at $50.00 (a 90-day median; one sale in the last 30 days) and Arquette at $41.00 on 5 sales. Aloy leaves the watch tier for #5 with no published call, as he had when he left in August. Top: Fischer +4.2% ($148.75 → $155.00 on 25 sales Sep 6–Oct 6); his last sale is $203.50 on Oct 1, 31% above the mark, and it is one print. Bottom: Gonzales −11.9% ($79.44 → $70.00 on 25 sales, last sale $70.00 on Sep 30), the board’s largest move in either direction. The rest: Holliday $107.75 → $105.00 on 11 sales (14 on Sep 29; older sales are leaving the window); Florentino $69.50 → $69.00 on 19 sales. Watch the #3/#4 line: Gonzales leads Florentino by $1.00, and a one-dollar move swaps them. Two last prints sit far under their marks and we are saying so: Holliday’s last sale is $48.17 on Oct 1 and Florentino’s is $31.38 on Oct 2, each more than half under its mark. A median of 11 and a median of 19 did not move on one print each. Seats: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Aloy. No verdict moved. Full ledger on the Scorecard.

This Week On The Tape · Sep 29, 2026

⚡ Sep 29 board: Fischer +2.8% to $148.75 on a $153.19 sale Sep 29, Holliday +2.6% to $107.75, Gonzales −1.3% to $79.44 and Florentino −0.7% to $69.50 with no sale since Sep 17; the board now ranks on the sold mark. (Sold mark = the median of each card’s dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days, read Sep 29. Moves are against the same measure on Sep 25, the first night it was published, so they cover four days.) No seat moved: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Kim (gated). Top: Fischer +2.8% ($144.63 → $148.75, 30 sales Aug 30–Sep 29), and the newest print, $153.19 on Sep 29, sits above the mark. Bottom: Gonzales −1.3% ($80.52 → $79.44), last sale $70.00 on Sep 26. The demotion question his box reopened on Sep 25 is answered on the ladder: $79.44 over Florentino’s $69.50, so he keeps #3. Holliday +2.6% ($105.00 → $107.75); his last sale is $125.00 on Sep 19, a print the Sep 25 read did not have. Florentino −0.7% ($70.00 → $69.50) on 24 sales, but his last sale is still $89.99 on Sep 17. Kim has no sale since Aug 5 ($122.50), so he has no 30-day mark; his 90-day median is $130.00 on 5 sales, and the gate keeps him at #5. Why the numbers look different from Sep 25: the figures this page printed through Sep 25 were SportsCardsPro’s raw guide values, and we called them the last printed sale. They were not. The method change below replaces them with a median of dated sales, and the seat order is the same on both measures. Watch tier (sold marks, Sep 29): Arquette $64.36 (5 sales; last $40.00 Sep 28), Aloy $60.00 (last $45.00 Sep 25), Houston $29.49 (last $28.00 Sep 26), Pierce $18.38 (last $19.99 Sep 28); Jump has one sale since Aug 30 ($26.00, Aug 31) and his $55.00 is a 90-day median. None is within reach of the #4 seat. Every call is graded at 6 and 12 months on the Scorecard.

Method Change · Sep 29, 2026

The board now ranks on the sold mark, the 30-day median of each card’s dated sales, instead of SportsCardsPro’s raw guide value. Since Sep 17 this page has said it ranks on “the last printed sold price.” The number it actually printed and ranked on was SportsCardsPro’s raw guide value, which is built from recent sales but is not one sale, and it was sometimes a number no sale had printed at: Kim’s $131.25 was carried from August while his last dated sale on the tape is $122.50 on Aug 5. From Sep 29 every seat prints its sold mark (the median of its dated SportsCardsPro sales over the last 30 days, from our nightly sold catalog), its last sale with that sale’s date, and how many sales the mark rests on. A median of dated sales keeps the one thing we meant by “sold” and drops the noise of a single print. The 30-day liquidity gate is unchanged. No seat moved and no verdict moved: the order is the same on both measures. What moved is the printed figure: Fischer $156.13 on the guide is $148.75 on the sold mark, Holliday $107.16 is $107.75, Gonzales $79.99 is $79.44, Florentino $70.00 is $69.50. Those are changes of measure, not market moves, and no percentage on this page compares the two.

This Week On The Tape · Sep 25, 2026

⚡ Sep 25 board: Gonzales −12.3% to $79.99 on a $67.00 print Sep 24, Fischer’s clock stops on a $144.26 print Sep 23 (+1.0% to $156.13), Holliday and Florentino unchanged with no printed sale since Sep 15 and Sep 17. (SportsCardsPro raw solds, read Sep 25; a release-window mid-week read, so the deltas are three days, not seven.) No seat moved: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Kim (gated). Top: Fischer +1.0% ($154.60 → $156.13), and the number that matters is not the guide move but the print behind it — $144.26 on Sep 23, the first sale since Sep 14. The Sep 22 column said two reads without a print would hand the seat to Holliday on Sep 29; that condition is off. The print itself came in under the guide, and one sale is one sale. Bottom: Gonzales −12.3% ($91.25 → $79.99). On Sep 22 we said his last three prints were all under the number the guide was carrying and that the guide would follow them; it did, in three days, on a $67.00 print Sep 24 and six sales Sep 18–24. His under-$71 line has now printed twice. He keeps #3 on the ladder ($79.99 over Florentino’s $70.00) and the demotion question his own box said this would reopen is reopened; the Sep 29 read carries it. Holliday unchanged at $107.16 with no print since Sep 15 — 17 sales logged Aug 26–Sep 25, still the most active card here, but the last-print date is the number the gate reads. Florentino unchanged at $70.00, and this is the first read since Sep 1 that found no new print (last: $89.99, Sep 17). Kim unchanged, carried, no print since Aug 5. One change in what this page prints beside each seat: starting with this read, the nightly eBay ask mark no longer appears next to the sold figure. An ask is a listing price, not a sale, and the two were sitting on the same line looking like the same kind of number. What stays is the count of verified live asks, which is a fact about supply and nothing else — Fischer 7, Kim 5, Gonzales 16, Holliday 25, Florentino 28 on Sep 25. Watch tier (SportsCardsPro raw, Sep 25): Arquette $60.50, Aloy $60.00, Jump $39.75, Houston $29.99, Pierce $17.54 — none within reach of the #4 seat; Houston (last print $20.55 Sep 23) and Pierce ($18.50 Sep 24) are the only two printing this week. The per-set BCB26 index is held at 69.52, its Sep 22 level, while it moves to a sold-price basis. Every call graded at 6 and 12 months on the Scorecard.

Correction of the Sep 22 correction · Sep 25, 2026

Holliday’s $720 PSA 10 is a dated sale after all. The Sep 22 correction below was wrong on that one point, and it is left in place so the record shows both reads. Read again on Sep 25, SportsCardsPro’s PSA 10 Sold Listings tab for the 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-EH carries exactly one row: Aug 6, 2026, $720.00, an eBay sale whose own title names the grade (“PSA 10 — LOW POP”). The PSA 9 tab carries a separate $155.00 sale on the same day. The Sep 22 read took the PSA 9 row for the whole graded tape of that date and concluded the $720 had borrowed its date; it had not. Under the rule this page has used since Sep 17 — one dated sales row whose title names the grade, or no verified sale — the $720 qualifies, and it is restored beside his entry as what it is: one sale, seven weeks old, not a ladder cell and not a level. No seat moved and no verdict moved; graded figures have not been a ranking input since Sep 17. What we are keeping from this: a correction gets read against the sales tabs one grade at a time, the same way the figure it corrects would be.

Correction · Sep 22, 2026

Holliday’s $720 PSA 10 was never a PSA 10 sale — and the Sep 17 graded review got the direction wrong on three of the five names. On Sep 17 this page removed the graded ladder from the ranking rule because four of the five PSA 10 figures had no verified sale behind them. One figure survived that cut: Holliday’s $720.00, which we said was backed by a single dated sale on Aug 6, 2026. It is not. Reading the graded sales tape card by card this week, the Aug 6 sale on that card is a PSA 9 at $155.00. There is no PSA 10 sale of Holliday’s 1st Bowman Chrome Auto on the tape at any date — his five graded sales are all PSA 9, between $130.00 and $199.95. The $720 was a price-guide estimate. We read it as a sale, published it as one for six weeks, and then kept it as the one graded number trustworthy enough to survive a review whose whole purpose was to catch exactly this. It is struck; his entry now reads no verified sale. The same read corrected two figures in the other direction. Fischer’s PSA 10 does have a tape — $650.00 on Sep 7, $425.00 on Aug 12, $417.00 on Jun 10 — and Florentino’s $492.00 is a dated sale, Aug 17, 2026. Both were struck on Sep 17 as unverified and both are restored, with their dates on them. Gonzales and Kim stay off: Gonzales’s only graded sale is a PSA 8 at $113.50, and Kim’s card has no graded sale of any grade. No seat moved and no verdict moved. Graded figures have not been a ranking input since Sep 17, so none of this touches the order; it touches what we print beside it. One smaller thing corrected in the same sweep: the Sep 17 and Sep 18 columns below both say “Holliday is still the Sell.” His published verdict on this page has been Hold since June and did not change on either date — the word “Sell” there is the engine’s nightly ask-side signal, which is not our verdict and never has been. The columns stay as written; this is the correction. The lesson we are keeping is the narrow one: a price-guide cell and a sale are different objects, and the only graded number this page will print from here is one with a date and a grade we have read off the sales tape itself.

Correction · Sep 18, 2026

The gate we published on Sep 17 was not applied to every seat. The 30-day liquidity gate says a card that has not printed a sale in 30 days cannot outrank one that has. On Sep 17 we tested it against Holliday only. Tested against every seat, it also binds Kim against Gonzales and Florentino: Gonzales printed $92.00 on the Sep 11 read — his third straight weekly read with a new print — Florentino’s last print of $70.00 was read Sep 11, and Kim has not printed since Aug 5. So Kim cannot hold #3, and the seats now read 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Kim (gated). No price moved and no verdict moved: Holliday is still the Sell, Fischer the Hold, Kim and Gonzales the Pass, Florentino the Buy. This is the Sep 17 method change finishing the job it started, and every seat below now carries the date of its last printed sale so you can check the gate yourself.

Method Change · Sep 17, 2026

We removed the graded ladder from the ranking rule, and two seats moved because of it. Until today this board ranked on two price ladders together — the raw 1st Bowman Chrome Auto and the PSA 10. Our own integrity review found that four of the five PSA 10 figures we were ranking on had no verified sale behind them: $538 for Fischer, $626 for Kim, $425 for Gonzales and $492 for Florentino appear nowhere on this site as a dated sale, and none of those four card pages publishes a graded figure at all. Only Holliday’s $720 has a sale behind it, and that is one sale, dated Aug 6. (Corrected Sep 22, 2026: it does not. That Aug 6 sale is a PSA 9 at $155.00, not a PSA 10 at $720. This review got the direction wrong on three of the five names — see the Sep 22 correction at the top of this column.) Worse than the numbers was the language over them. This page wrote “the graded tape did not flinch,” “pinned at $720 a sixth week,” “graded flat” and “a $492.00 graded print” — all of which describe a repeatedly observed series. There was no series. A carried ladder value was being narrated as a weekly tape, and a published rank was resting on it. What changed. Ranks are now set on one ladder, the last printed sold price, with a 30-day liquidity gate: a card that has not printed a sale in 30 days cannot outrank a card that has. On the Sep 15 marks that makes Fischer #1 ($148.32, two sales in seven days) and Holliday #2 ($104.00, 27 sales in thirty). Kim stays #3 — his $131.25 is higher than Holliday’s print but it is 43 days old, which is precisely what the gate is for, and this page said on Sep 15 that it would have to draw that line by mid-October. It is drawn. (Corrected Sep 18: “Kim stays #3” tested the gate against Holliday only. Tested against every seat — Gonzales printed $92.00 on Sep 11, Florentino $70.00, while Kim’s last print is Aug 5 — the gate puts Kim at #5. The Sep 18 correction above carries the applied seats.) What did not change. No verdict moved: Holliday is still the Sell, Fischer the Hold, Kim and Gonzales the Pass, Florentino the Buy. No price moved. Every call still runs its own 6- and 12-month clock on the Scorecard, and the seats above are ordering, not opinion. We would rather publish this than quietly re-rank. The correction is dated, and the Sep 15 column below carries its own.

This Week On The Tape · Sep 22, 2026

⚡ Sep 22 board: Fischer +4.2% to $154.60 but his last printed sale is still Sep 14, Gonzales’s ask mark −15.4% on the board’s bottom read, Florentino flat at $70.00 with 5 sales in 7 days, and Holliday’s $720 PSA 10 struck as never having been a sale. (SportsCardsPro raw solds; the correction has its own column above.) No seat moved: 1 Fischer · 2 Holliday · 3 Gonzales · 4 Florentino · 5 Kim (gated). Top: Fischer +4.2% ($148.32 → $154.60), and the asterisk on it is large — his last printed sale is Sep 14 and this read found nothing newer, on a card the guide describes as trading about once a day. His own break-condition says two runs without a print hands the top seat to Holliday; that clock started this week and resolves on the Sep 29 read. Bottom: Gonzales −0.8% ($92.00 → $91.25), a nothing move on the guide that is hiding a real one underneath: his last three printed sales were $79.99 (Sep 21), $72.00 (Sep 17) and $42.01 (Sep 14), all below the number the guide is carrying, while his nightly ask mark fell −15.4% ($150 → $126.97) and verified asks went 4 → 15. More sellers at lower prices is the least ambiguous combination on this page. Holliday +3.0% ($104.00 → $107.16) with his ask mark down −9.1% to $149.99 — asks falling toward a rising sold print, which is the healthy way for a spread to close. Florentino flat at $70.00 since Sep 1, and it is the best kind of flat: five printed sales in the last seven days, the most of any card here. Kim unchanged at a carried $131.25 with no printed sale since Aug 5 — the gate that holds him at #5 is doing exactly what it was written for. The spread story flipped this week. Since Sep 15 we have been flagging ask marks sitting 37–63% above last sold prints on four-listing tapes. Three of the four narrowed: Fischer 37% → 30% as listings went 4 → 9, Gonzales 63% → 39% as they went 4 → 15, Holliday 59% → 40% on 26. Sellers arriving and asks coming down to meet the sold print is the resolution we said was more likely than the other one. Kim is the exception and he is the exception because nothing has traded: $200.74 asked on 4 listings, 53% over a quote that is a carried number. The watch tier is all one colour. All five names below the board read SELL on the nightly engine and four are down double digits over 30 days — Houston −27.8%, Jump −17.8%, Aloy −17.7%, Pierce −9.1%, Arquette −6.7%. None is untrackable; every one carries enough verified asks for the engine to mark it. The per-set BCB26 index re-marked 69.52, −4.9% on the week and −30.5% since its Sep 14 inception, on an ask basis, labeled. That is the September Chrome chase basket, a different product from this board’s May cards, and it is having a much worse month than the board is. Every call graded at 6 and 12 months on the Scorecard.

This Week On The Tape · Sep 15, 2026

Corrected Sep 17, 2026: this column originally described the PSA 10 figures as a weekly series and cited the graded ladder as the reason for the #4/#5 seat. Those figures have no verified sale behind them; the claims are struck below and the ranking rule has changed. The raw sold prices and everything resting on them are unchanged. ⚡ Sep 15 board: Gonzales takes #4 from Florentino on the clock this page published Sep 11, Holliday −1.9% to $104 is the biggest move on the board in either direction, and Kim has now gone 41 days without a printed sale. (SportsCardsPro raw solds.) This was a flat week on the tape and the flatness is the story: three of the five names printed the same number they printed Sep 11, to the cent. Top: nothing on the board rose more than Fischer +1.0% ($146.80 → $148.32), and the +8.3% jump in his ask mark ($187 → $202.50, on 4 listings) is the number people will quote and it is not a sold price. Bottom: Holliday −1.9% ($106 → $104.00), which is the smallest weekly bottom this board has printed since June, and 27 sales logged in 30 days. The seat change: Sep 11 this page said that if Gonzales held his raw edge on the next run he takes #4. He printed $92.00 against Florentino’s $70.00 again, so Gonzales is #4 and Florentino is #5 — the second reorder in two runs to resolve on a condition we published in advance rather than on a judgment call. (Struck Sep 17: this sentence originally read “Florentino still leads the graded ladder $492 to $425, which is why it is a seat change and not a verdict change.” Neither graded figure has a verified sale behind it and the graded ladder is no longer a ranking input. It was a seat change and not a verdict change because the verdicts did not move — that part stands on its own.) The Bowman Chrome question is settled, and the answer is that it does not apply. The published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist runs 204 cards — 100 Chrome Prospects and 104 Chrome Prospect Autographs — and not one of the five names on this board has an autograph in it. Holliday and Arquette appear only as base prospects, and those are not 1st Bowman cards either, because their firsts were in May’s 2026 Bowman (BCP-1 / BCP-40). We have been carrying a break-condition on this since Sep 8 that said a September Chrome auto printing below the May CPA would make these ranks wrong. (Wording corrected Oct 1: the May autos are Chrome Prospect Autographs, not paper.) There is no Chrome auto. The May CPA card is the benchmark for this class permanently, and the ranks on this page do not rest on a transition that was never coming. What is worth watching instead: the gap between what people ask and what people pay. Fischer $202.50 asked against $148.32 sold, Kim $200.74 asked against a $131.25 quote that is 41 days old, Gonzales $150 against $92.00. Three of the top four now carry ask marks 37% to 63% above their last sold print, on four verified listings each. That is a thin tape quoting itself, and we are naming it as a fact rather than building a thesis on it. The per-set BCB26 index activated Sep 14 at 100.00 and printed its first move Sep 15: 95.67, −4.3% on an ask basis, labeled — the Chrome chase basket giving back more in one day than this whole board gave back in a week. Every call graded at 6 and 12 months on the Scorecard.

⚾ 3B · Milwaukee Brewers · #20 Overall Pick 2025

Andrew Fischer
1st Bowman Chrome Auto

Chrome Auto (eBay sold)

~$135–$175

Sold mark $152.85 · PSA 10 $650.00 (dated sale, Sep 7 2026) · −0.4% vs the Oct 13 sold mark · last sale $108.50 on Oct 19 · 18 sales Sep 20–Oct 20 · Oct 20

ON THE BOARD SINCE JUN 12, 2026 · SUGGESTED SIZING 1%–4%

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Draft Position

#20 Overall

College

Duke

Duke FR HR Record

All-Time

2026 WBC

Team Italy

Position

HR Projection

25+ threat

The June value call already cashed — and the dip case just rebuilt itself. Fischer is a pure power threat at third base — he set Duke's freshman home run record and the power transferred immediately to pro ball. Scout projections of a 25-homer ceiling are conservative if his bat speed continues to optimize. The Italy WBC connection adds an international storyline that opens him to a wider collector audience.

With the Purple /250 auto parallel in the mix, Fischer's low-numbered autos re-rated with the base auto (his Packfractor /89 now outsells Holliday's). The June discount is long gone — and after three straight down weeks the tape snapped back +40% to $137 on Sep 8 and added another 7% to $146.80 on Sep 11. It then stalled: $148.32 on Sep 15, up 1%, then $154.60 on Sep 22, up 4.2% — but on a tape that has printed nothing new since Sep 14. The verdict below has the details.

"Fischer's calling card is going to be his power as he consistently gets to hard-hit contact with good bat speed, strength, and lift in his swing. His ability to launch the ball carried over into pro ball quickly, and he could be a 25-homer threat with that optimization." — MLB.com

Verdict: Hold — the number is up and the tape has gone quiet, and the second half matters more. Reasons as of the Sep 22 read; the seat and marks above are Oct 20. Re-read Oct 27. Raw read $154.60 against $148.32, +4.2%, the best move on the board this week. But the read is doing more work than the tape is: his last printed sale is Sep 14, and the Sep 22 read found nothing newer. On a card the guide describes as trading about once a day, a week without a print is the thing to watch, not the +4.2%. The seat is a ranking, and the Hold stands. The re-entry logged Sep 11 at $146.80 is up about 1% and that is all so far. The ask side did the opposite of last week: the nightly mark eased $202.50 → $201.49 while verified listings went 4 → 9, so the thin-tape caveat we put on the +8.3% ask jump on Sep 15 has partly answered itself — more sellers, no higher price. Asks are still 30% above the last sold print. The June call at $30 is up +415% and gets its first real grade in December on the Scorecard; the Sep 11 re-entry at $146.80 is up 5.3% and runs its own 6- and 12-month clock. Buying the ask here means paying about $201 for a card whose last printed sale was $183.50 on Sep 14. Sep 25 read: the clock stopped. SportsCardsPro logged a printed sale of $144.26 on Sep 23, the first since Sep 14, and the guide read $156.13 (+1.0%). The Sep 29 hand-over condition is off and the Hold stands. Note what the print says: $144.26 is $10 under the number the guide was carrying and $39 under the Sep 14 $183.50 — one sale, not a series, and the next one decides which of those two it belongs with. Sep 29 read: on the sold mark, the measure this board ranks on from today, Fischer is $148.75 on 30 sales Aug 30–Sep 29, up 2.8% from $144.63 on the same measure Sep 25, and his newest sale is $153.19 on Sep 29. The $156.13 we printed Sep 25 was the SportsCardsPro guide value, so $156.13 to $148.75 is a change of measure, not a fall. The Hold stands, and the Sep 11 re-entry at $146.80 reads +1.3% on the sold mark. Oct 6 read: sold mark $155.00 on 25 sales Sep 6–Oct 6, +4.2% on the Sep 29 mark of $148.75, the top move on the board. His last sale is $203.50 on Oct 1, 31% above the mark: one print, and the median, not the print, is what ranks. The Hold stands. The Sep 11 re-entry at $146.80 is up 5.6% at the mark, and it runs its own 6- and 12-month clock. Oct 20 read: sold mark $152.85 on 18 sales Sep 20–Oct 20, −0.4% on the Oct 13 mark of $153.50. His last sale is $108.50 on Oct 19. The median, not any one print, is what ranks. The Hold stands on the mark. The Sep 11 re-entry at $146.80 reads +4.1%.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND: the level is unchanged and it is on the downside: a sold mark back under $115 would say the Sep 4–11 run was a squeeze on four listings rather than a real re-rate, and the re-entry call would be carrying a loss we would name in percent rather than explain away. The gap between the two tapes is still the thing to watch — $201.49 asked against $154.60 sold. It narrowed this week, and it narrowed the right way, with sellers arriving rather than the price running. He now holds the #1 seat, and the way he loses it is the same tape that gave it to him: a print back under Holliday’s number hands it over, and going two runs without a printed sale hands it over as well, because the 30-day gate cuts both ways. That second clock is now running. His last printed sale is Sep 14; the Sep 22 read found no new one. If the Sep 29 read finds none either, that is two runs without a print and the seat goes to Holliday on the rule, not on a judgment call. The seat does not say this is the best card on the board. Holliday trades about 22 times a month; Fischer has not printed since Sep 14. On the day those two prints cross, the seat crosses back. Sep 25: the two-run clock is off — a $144.26 print on Sep 23. The downside level is unchanged at $115. One risk is now off the table: there is no Andrew Fischer autograph on the published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist, so his May 2026 Bowman Chrome Prospect Auto (#CPA-AF) is his 1st Bowman auto permanently. New as of Sep 22: his graded copy now has a tape we can point at — $650.00 on Sep 7, $425.00 on Aug 12, $417.00 on Jun 10, all PSA 10. Three sales is a tape, not a series, and it does not move a seat, because seats move on the raw printed sale and nothing else. We re-read this every week. Sep 29: the downside level is unchanged at $115, now read against the sold mark. The seat goes to Holliday if Fischer’s sold mark falls under Holliday’s ($107.75 on Sep 29), or if Fischer stops selling for 30 days while Holliday keeps trading. Oct 6: the downside level is unchanged at $115. The seat is held on a mark of 25 sales; it hands over to Holliday if his sold mark ($105.00) closes the gap, or if a 30-day window passes without a sale on this card. Oct 20: Reworded Oct 20, 2026: the $115 level is a mark level. It used to read as a print level, and one print under it was enough to put the Hold in question. The Hold breaks if the sold mark falls under $115, not on a single sale. For the record, a second print has landed under $115: $108.50 on Oct 19, after $105.00 on Oct 8. The mark is $152.85 on 18 sales, 33% above the level, and the Hold stands. The seat hands over to Holliday if his mark ($108.75) closes the $44.10 gap, or if a 30-day window passes without a sale on this card.

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⚾ SS · Colorado Rockies · #4 Overall Pick 2025

Ethan Holliday
1st Bowman Chrome Auto

Chrome Auto (eBay sold)

~$95–$125

Sold mark $108.75 · PSA 10 $720.00 (1 dated sale, Aug 6 2026 — restored Sep 25, see the correction) · −1.6% vs the Oct 13 sold mark · last sale $107.50 on Oct 14 · 8 sales Sep 20–Oct 20 · Oct 20

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Draft Position

#4 Overall

MLB.com Ranking

#25 · Aug 15 2026

Class

2025 Draft

BA 2025 HS Player

★ Winner

Position

Signal

HOLD

The headliner of the 2026 Bowman class and the most-chased 1st Bowman Chrome Auto in years. Son of former MLBer Matt Holliday, Ethan is a 6-foot-4 left-handed shortstop who projects as a middle-of-the-order bat with plus raw power and bat speed. Baseball America named him the 2025 High School Player of the Year. The combination of elite draft pedigree, a famous last name, and genuine all-tools potential makes him the #1 target in this set.

MLB.com scouts describe power that is both raw and usable without over-effort — rare for a prep hitter. If Holliday develops into a middle-of-the-order threat at shortstop, his 1st Bowman Chrome Auto is the card that re-rates. Most top-100 prospects never become regulars, so size it as a long-dated option.

"Holliday might have as much raw and usable power as anyone from the class of '25. When at his best, the 6-foot-4 left-handed hitter can get to it without a ton of effort. He already has strength, bat speed and leverage in his swing while continuing to add physicality to his frame." — MLB.com

Verdict: Hold — the drift is small, the liquidity is the story. Reasons as of the Sep 22 read; the seat and marks above are Oct 20. Re-read Oct 27. Raw firmed $104.00 → $107.16 (+3.0%) on the Sep 22 read, the board’s second-best move, while the nightly ask mark went the other way — $165 → $149.99, −9.1%, on 26 verified listings. Asks falling toward a rising sold print is the spread closing, which is the healthier of the two ways a spread can close. Corrected Sep 22, 2026: this sentence used to say the graded copy had exactly one dated sale behind it, $720.00 on Aug 6, 2026. It does not. Re-reading the graded tape card by card, the Aug 6 sale is a PSA 9 at $155.00; there is no PSA 10 sale of this card on the tape at any date. The $720 was a guide estimate we read as a sale and published as one for six weeks, including on the day we removed the graded ladder and kept this figure as the one that survived. It is struck, the entry now says no verified sale, and the graded tape we can actually point at on this card is five PSA 9 sales between $130.00 and $199.95. The engine still reads SELL on the ask side — that is the nightly ask-mark signal, not our verdict, and it means sellers are still asking more than buyers are paying. The number we point at is volume: SportsCardsPro logged 22 sales of this card in the last 30 days, more than any other name here, though his own last printed sale is Sep 15 and the Sep 22 read found none newer. Why #2 as of Sep 17, having been #1 since June: he held the top seat on the graded ladder, and the graded ladder is gone — four of the five figures in it had no verified sale behind them (see the method note above). On the rule that remains, Fischer’s $154.60 printed sale outranks his $107.16 and that is the whole of it — though Fischer has not printed since Sep 14, and if the Sep 29 read still finds nothing the gate hands this seat back. What did not change is the case for this card: a card that trades 22 times a month and a card whose last printed sale is Aug 5 are not the same asset at the same price, and that is why Kim’s higher carried quote sits below him rather than above. The correction above costs this entry its graded number, not its argument — the argument was always liquidity, and the liquidity is still here. Sep 25 read: $107.16, unchanged to the cent, and still no printed sale since Sep 15 — SportsCardsPro shows 17 sales logged Aug 26–Sep 25, down from the 22 counted on Sep 22 as August prints roll out of the window. The volume case holds; the date of the last print is now the number to watch on this card, because it is the number the gate reads. Always check current eBay sold comps before purchasing. Sep 29 read: sold mark $107.75 on 14 sales Aug 30–Sep 29, +2.6% from $105.00 on Sep 25. The last sale is $125.00 on Sep 19, which the Sep 25 read did not have, so the “no print since Sep 15” line above is superseded. Fourteen sales is fewer than the 17 counted on Sep 25 because August sales are rolling out of the window; the Hold stands on liquidity, and the gate date to watch is Oct 19, 30 days after his last sale. Oct 6 read: sold mark $105.00 on 11 sales Sep 6–Oct 6, −2.6% on the Sep 29 mark of $107.75. The count is down from 14 as older sales leave the 30-day window, which makes each new print weigh more. His last sale is $48.17 on Oct 1, 54% under the mark. It is one print and a median of 11 did not move on it; if more prints follow it, the mark will. The Hold stands. Oct 20 read: sold mark $108.75 on 8 sales Sep 20–Oct 20, −1.6% on the Oct 13 mark of $110.50. His last sale is $107.50 on Oct 14. Eight sales is the thinnest count on the board, so the next prints will move the mark. The Hold stands.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND: the Bowman Chrome question we have carried since Sep 8 is answered, and the answer is that it does not apply. The published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist runs 204 cards — 100 Chrome Prospects and 104 Chrome Prospect Autographs — and neither of his cards in it is a 1st. Corrected Oct 20, 2026: this box used to say there was no Holliday autograph in the set and that base BCP-209 was his only card in it. His only 2026 Bowman Chrome (Sep) cards are the returning base BCP-209 and a Mega Box auto, CPA-EHO; neither is a 1st. His 1st Bowman Chrome is 2026 Bowman (May) BCP-1 and his 1st auto is 2026 Bowman (May) CPA-EH. So the May CPA card is his 1st Bowman auto permanently, there is no benchmark transition coming, and this rank does not rest on one. What is left is price and liquidity: the May CPA-EH losing its $95 floor would break this, and so would the volume drying up — if the 22-sales-a-month card starts printing like Kim’s, the liquidity argument that holds him at #2 over a higher carried quote goes with it. The graded condition we used to state here has been withdrawn with the $720; we will write a new one when this card prints a PSA 10 sale we can date. Sep 29: the $95 floor now reads against the sold mark ($107.75). A sold mark under $95, or no sale by Oct 19, would break this. Oct 20: the $95 floor reads against the sold mark ($108.75) and holds. His last sale is Oct 14, so the no-sale date that would break this moves to Nov 13.

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⚾ OF/1B · Boston Red Sox · International Signing 2024

Justin Gonzales
1st Bowman Chrome Auto

Chrome Auto (eBay sold)

~$60–$85

Sold mark $70.00 · PSA 10 no verified sale · +2.2% vs the Oct 13 sold mark, the board’s top move · last sale $65.00 on Oct 16 · 13 sales Sep 20–Oct 20 · Oct 20

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2024 · $250K

From

Baní, DR

Build

6'6" / 270 lbs

2026 Level

High-A → Double-A

Position

OF / 1B

Signal

PASS

The watch-tier name the market promoted, not us. Gonzales sat in the tier below this board from the day the page was built. Then he out-printed the #5 seat two weeks running ($71.02 on Sep 1, then $90.00 on Sep 8, on the raw tape) — and the two-week crossover rule is the rule precisely so that a seat changes hands on the tape, not on a story.

The story is good anyway. A $250,000 international signing out of Baní in the Dominican Republic, Gonzales is a 6-foot-6, 270-pound corner bat with bat-to-ball skills that don't usually come in that frame, and 2026 has been the breakout: a .271/.391/.463 line with 17 home runs in 89 games at High-A Greenville earned a promotion to Double-A Portland, and both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline added him to their top-100 lists in the spring. He was the top Red Sox chase in 2026 Bowman from release week, when base autos were already trading $110–$150 before settling into the $70s over the summer.

"Despite his size, Gonzalez displays great bat-to-ball skills and has started to tap into his raw power. After playing mostly first base to start his career, Gonzalez has spent most of his time in right field, where he can show off his tremendous arm." — Collectibles On SI, May 2026

Verdict: Pass — the seat is holding and the tape underneath it is not. Reasons as of the Sep 22 read; the seat and marks above are Oct 20. Re-read Oct 27. The guide number read $91.25 against $92.00, −0.8%, the board’s bottom move and small enough to be nothing on its own. What is not nothing is what he actually printed: $79.99 on Sep 21, $72.00 on Sep 17 and $42.01 on Sep 14 — three straight sales below the $91.25 the guide is carrying. He keeps #3 because he printed most recently of anyone here and the gate ranks on the guide’s last printed price, but we are not going to quote $91.25 without saying that his own last three sales came in under it. The ask side moved with it and moved hard: the nightly mark fell $150 → $126.97, −15.4%, the biggest move on this board in either direction this week, while verified asks went 4 → 15. More sellers at lower prices is the one supply-and-price combination that is not ambiguous. The one thing that has changed is the Chrome question, and it resolved in his favor: the published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist carries 104 prospect autographs and he is not one of them, so his May Chrome Prospect Auto (#CPA-JG) is his 1st Bowman auto permanently and this rank is not sitting on a transition that could rewrite it. If you own him, hold. The PASS is logged at $90 on the Scorecard and gets graded at 6 and 12 months like everything else. Sep 25 read: the guide followed the prints down — $91.25 → $79.99, −12.3%, the biggest move on the board in either direction, on a $67.00 print Sep 24 and six sales Sep 18–24. The under-$71 line in the box below has now printed twice (Sep 14 $42.01, Sep 24 $67.00), so the demotion question it said that would reopen is reopened; it goes to the Sep 29 read. He keeps #3 because $79.99 still sits above Florentino’s $70.00 on the ladder, and seats move on the ladder, not on the direction. The Pass at $90 is down 11%. If you own him, nothing about the profile changed; if you do not, this is what “not at this price” looked like. Sep 29 read: sold mark $79.44 on 30 sales, −1.3% from $80.52 on Sep 25, last sale $70.00 on Sep 26. The demotion question carried to this read is answered on the ladder: $79.44 over Florentino’s $69.50, so he keeps #3. The Pass logged at $90 reads −11.7% on the sold mark. Oct 6 read: sold mark $70.00 on 25 sales Sep 6–Oct 6, −11.9% on the Sep 29 mark of $79.44, the largest move on the board in either direction. The last sale is $70.00 on Sep 30. The Pass was logged at $90.00 on Sep 8; at the mark the card is 22.2% under that price. He still holds #3, by $1.00 over Florentino ($69.00). Oct 20 read: sold mark $70.00 on 13 sales Sep 20–Oct 20, +2.2% on the Oct 13 mark of $68.50, the board’s top move. His last sale is $65.00 on Oct 16. He leads Florentino by $13.47. The Pass stands. The Sep 8 Pass logged at $90.00 reads −22.2% on the mark; it runs to its own finalization date, Nov 3.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND: the Bowman Chrome wild card we flagged Sep 8 and Sep 11 is now closed, and it closed clean: there is no Justin Gonzales autograph on the published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist, so there is no benchmark transition coming and no re-read against a Chrome card. That removes a reason this rank could have been wrong, so the remaining levels are all price. A raw print under $71 says the Sep 8 promotion was early and reopens the demotion question — and the Sep 14 print at $42.01 has already been under it once, which is why this line is the one we are watching hardest. The spread we flagged on Sep 15 has closed a third of the way, from $150-against-$92.00 to $126.97-against-$91.25, and it closed downward, which is the direction we said spreads this wide usually close. Two more reads with prints in the $70s and the guide number follows them down, at which point the demotion question answers itself. Sep 25: it followed — $79.99 on the guide, $67.00 on the Sep 24 print. Reopened; the Sep 29 read carries it. Upside, a print above $110 on real volume turns this Pass into a Buy, and we would say so in the same place we said Pass. Sep 29: resolved for this week — he keeps #3 on the sold mark ($79.44 vs $69.50). The seat crosses if his sold mark falls under Florentino’s. The upside condition now reads against the sold mark: above $110 on real volume turns the Pass into a Buy. Oct 20: the seat crosses if his sold mark falls under Florentino’s ($56.53); the lead is $13.47. The upside condition is unchanged: above $110 on real volume turns the Pass into a Buy, and the mark is $70.00.

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⚾ OF · Pittsburgh Pirates · IFA 2024

Edward Florentino
1st Bowman Chrome Auto

Chrome Auto (eBay sold)

~$50–$70

Sold mark $56.53 · PSA 10 $492.00 (dated sale, Aug 17 2026) · −13.7% vs the Oct 13 sold mark, the board’s bottom · last sale $56.06 on Oct 19 · 12 sales Sep 20–Oct 20 · Oct 20

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IFA 2024

Org

Pirates

SB — 2025

35 in 83 G

Position

Signal

WATCH

The watch-tier name that forced its way up. Florentino clocked 35 stolen bases in 83 games last year and worked himself into staying in the outfield when scouts had him penciled in at first base. The Pirates are excited about the total package.

The tape is quieter than the profile right now: the guide has read $70.00 since Sep 1, below the $79 we logged the call at, and it is the flatness rather than any fade that cost him the #4 seat on Sep 15. The sales underneath it are not quiet, though — five printed in the last 7 days, more than any other name on this board.

Verdict: Watch — the Aug 18 Buy is graded wrong, final, at −17.4%; the call is closed and not renewed. Reasons as of the Sep 22 read; the seat and marks above are Oct 20. Re-read Oct 27. The guide read $70.00 again, unchanged since Sep 1, while the nightly ask mark also sat still at $115.00. What moved is the thing worth moving: five printed sales in the last 7 days — $89.99 and $69.00 on Sep 17, $70.00 and $62.00 on Sep 16, $80.00 on Sep 15 — the most of any card on this board, on 30 verified asks. A number that does not move while the card keeps changing hands is a level. A number that does not move because nothing trades is Kim’s problem two seats down, and it is not this card’s. The reason the Sep 15 seat change was not a verdict change is simply that the verdict did not move; we originally wrote that his graded ladder lead, $492 to $425, was the reason, and on Sep 17 that sentence was withdrawn on the ground that neither figure had a verified sale behind it. Half of that withdrawal was wrong, and we are correcting it Sep 22: his $492.00 PSA 10 is a dated sale, Aug 17, 2026 — the entry carries it again. Gonzales’s $425 still is not, so the comparison stays withdrawn even though this half of it stands. The call is down 11% from where we logged it at $79 — that is the honest number and it is on the Scorecard, where it gets graded at 6 and 12 months. Speed-first profiles are volatile, so do not make him your largest position. Sep 25 read: $70.00 again, and for the first time since Sep 1 a read found no new print — the last is $89.99 on Sep 17. Twenty-eight sales logged Aug 26–Sep 25 say the level is real; a second read without a print would say the buyers paused, and the gate reads that date, not this opinion. Sep 29 read: sold mark $69.50 on 24 sales, −0.7% from $70.00 on Sep 25, and the second read in a row with no new sale: the last is $89.99 on Sep 17. Our Aug 18 Buy at $79.32 reads −12.4% on the sold mark, and the “volume says floor” half of the headline above is not showing this week. The call stays on the Scorecard at that number. If no sale prints by Oct 17, the 30-day gate moves him below every card that is trading, whatever his mark says. Oct 6 read: sold mark $69.00 on 19 sales Sep 6–Oct 6, −0.7% on the Sep 29 mark of $69.50. Against the Aug 18 entry at $79.32 the card is down 13.0% at the mark, and we name that in percent. His last sale is $31.38 on Oct 2, 55% under the mark: one print, and a median of 19 barely moved on it. The Buy stands as a long hold; it is trending, not final. Oct 20 read: sold mark $56.53 on 12 sales Sep 20–Oct 20, −13.7% on the Oct 13 mark of $65.50, the board’s largest fall. His last sale is $56.06 on Oct 19. The Buy we logged Aug 18 at $79.32 was graded wrong, final on Oct 13 at −17.4%, and the grade is not edited again. We are not renewing it; the seat is a ranking by the sold mark, nothing more.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND: the crossover clock resolved against him on Sep 15 and dropped him to #5 on that board. Sales under $65, his late-July level, would mean the buyers who carried him onto this board have stepped back, and we would rather wait for them to return than argue with the tape. He keeps #4 because $70.00 is a real, recent, repeated print — and after five sales in the last 7 days it is no longer thin. If that stops printing while the names above keep trading, the 30-day gate will move him before any opinion does; on this week’s read he is the furthest from that risk of anyone here. One thing that is now settled and no longer a risk: the published 2026 Bowman Chrome checklist has no Florentino autograph, so his May Chrome Prospect Auto (#CPA-EF) is his 1st Bowman auto permanently and there is no transition coming to re-price him. For someone who owns him, note what has and has not changed — the profile is intact, the graded copy has one dated sale behind it at $492.00 on Aug 17, and the rank is what moved. Sep 29: the gate date is Oct 17, 30 days after his last sale on Sep 17. The $65 line now reads against the sold mark ($69.50). Oct 20: the mark is $56.53 on 12 sales, under the $65.00 line. By the line we wrote, the buyers who carried him onto this board have stepped back, and we are saying so here. The call is already closed, so there is no call left for it to break. The seat is $1.53 above Aloy ($55.00); a mark under Aloy’s on the next read moves him to #5. His last sale is Oct 19, so the no-sale date on the 30-day gate is Nov 18.

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⚾ SS · Baltimore Orioles · #31 Pick

Wehiwa Aloy
1st Bowman Chrome Auto

Chrome Auto (eBay sold)

~$50–$65

Sold mark $55.00 · graded figure not published for this card · 0.0% vs the Oct 13 sold mark · last sale $66.00 on Oct 19 · 13 sales Sep 20–Oct 20 · Oct 20

ON THE BOARD JUN 12 – AUG 18, 2026, AND AGAIN SINCE OCT 6, 2026 · SUGGESTED SIZING 1%–4%

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#31 Pick

College

Arkansas

2025 SEC

Player of the Year

Org

Orioles

Position

Signal

WATCH

He takes the seat on the ladder, not on a thesis. Aloy is a shortstop with real power: 35 homers in two SEC seasons plus 8 more in 21 Cape Cod games, and a 2026 line of .288/.358/.506 with 25 homers and 20 steals in 533 plate appearances across High-A and Double-A. He came off this board on Aug 18 on ladder position, not on his own tape, and his card has kept selling since: 19 dated sales in the 30 days to Oct 6 at a median of $57.00.

The seat opened because Seong-Jun Kim, parked at #5 since Sep 18, has not sold since Aug 5 and has no 30-day mark. Of the cards not already seated, Aloy has the highest sold mark: Gage Jump’s $50.00 is a 90-day median with one sale in the last 30 days, and Arquette’s is $41.00 on 5 sales.

Verdict: Watch — a seat is an ordering by the sold mark, and it is not a recommendation. Watch is the non-call: we have never published a Buy, Hold or Pass on this card, and returning to the board does not add one. What the page can say is what the tape says: $57.00 on 19 sales. His last sale is $29.78 on Sep 30, 48% under the mark; it is one print, and the median carries the rank. The path is the open question for the card, not the tape: the Orioles have Gunnar Henderson at shortstop and Jackson Holliday on the infield, and nothing in the Double-A line is a reason to ignore that. Oct 20 read: sold mark $55.00 on 13 sales Sep 20–Oct 20, unchanged on the Oct 13 mark; last sale $66.00 on Oct 19. He is still above every unseated card. The Watch stands.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND: a seat on this board follows the sold mark and nothing else. Aloy loses #5 to any card that holds a higher 30-day sold mark on at least three sales, and Gage Jump’s $50.00 is the closest, on a 90-day median that needs fresh sales to count. If his mark falls under $50.00 on real volume, the seat is no longer his by the numbers, and we say so in this box. A published call needs a reason to make one; none has appeared. Oct 20: Florentino’s mark ($56.53) is $1.53 above his, the closest the #4/#5 line has been. Behind him: Gage Jump at $43.50 (a 90-day median; one sale in the last 30 days, so he cannot rank), Aiva Arquette at $41.00 on 8 sales and Marek Houston at $27.50 on 12. Seong-Jun Kim has one sale in the last 30 days ($73.00, Oct 13) beside a 90-day median of $120.78 on 4 sales, so he cannot rank either.

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Off the Board

Names that used to rank here, kept in plain sight with the call we made and where it stands. Quietly deleting a recommendation that went wrong is how track records get laundered, so we don't. A name can leave four ways: demoted (out-priced by someone below it), graduated (he debuted in the majors and a true rookie card now exists — that's the good ending), aged out (the 1st Bowman Chrome Auto is ~18 months old), or priced out (no longer a banger entry point).

Player	On the board	Rank at exit	Our call	Finished at	8-Week Read
Daniel Pierce Demoted — Kim ($131) and Florentino ($79) both out-printed him two straight weeks while he made new lows.	Jun 12 – Aug 18, 2026 9 weeks · now watch tier	#5	BUY @ $35 Jun 12, 2026	$19 −46% · read Aug 4	EARLY first real grade Dec 2026
Wehiwa Aloy Demoted on ladder position, not on his own tape — $56 flat, but two watch-tier names priced above him.	Jun 12 – Aug 18, 2026 9 weeks · back on the board Oct 6 at #5	#4	— never carried a published call	$56 flat · read Aug 18	NO CALL
Aiva Arquette Demoted — Justin Gonzales out-printed him two straight weeks ($71, then $90 vs $59.50). (Corrected Sep 17: this line originally cited Arquette's PSA 10 “halving to $125”; his one dated PSA 10 sale is $76.00, Aug 21 2026, and $125 was never a verified sale.)	Jun 12 – Sep 8, 2026 12 weeks · now watch tier	#5	BUY @ $70 Jun 12, 2026	$59.50 −15% · read Sep 8	EARLY first real grade Dec 2026
Seong-Jun Kim Demoted — no sale since Aug 5, so no 30-day sold mark. A card needs a sale inside 30 days to rank, and Wehiwa Aloy ($57.00 on 19 sales) held the highest mark of any unseated card.	Aug 18 – Oct 6, 2026 7 weeks · now watch tier	#5	PASS @ $131.25 Aug 18, 2026	$130.00 −1.0% · 90-day median, 5 sales · read Oct 13	NOT GRADED Wait call final Oct 13 · inside the ±10% band · no sale since Aug 5 at that read; one sale dated Oct 13 ($73.00) posted after it

Pierce is down 46% from where we called him and Arquette is down 15%, and we're not hiding either. But a 1st Bowman Chrome Auto doesn't get judged in nine weeks — his first real grade comes in December on the Scorecard, and if you bought him in June the only thing that has changed is the price, not the reason. Demotion is a ranking decision, not a sell — Kim, Pierce and Arquette are tracked in the watch tier below, and Aloy is back on the board at #5.

Scouting Grades · v1 · Sep 24, 2026

Scouting Grades — All 10 Bangers, Six Factors Each

A stock gets factor grades; so do these cards. Every name on this page — the top five and the watch tier — is graded A+ to F on six factors, then rolled into one Hub rating. Grades describe the player and his 1st Bowman Chrome Auto. They are not calls: BUY / HOLD / PASS stays on the board above and on the Scorecard, where a call is judged at 6 and 12 months. Tap a name for the numbers behind every grade.

1 Andrew Fischer3B · Milwaukee Brewers · age 22 A-78.6 PediC+PerfAPathAMomeA+ValuCLiquA+

Pedigree	C+	55	prospect standing 43/100 · acquisition capital 77.2/100
Performance	A	89.3	index 149.2 (OPS vs level 149.1, age +2.5, discipline -2.4) · 560 PA
Path	A	87.5	ETA 2027 · open path
Momentum	A+	100	1M +39.7% · 3M +70.9% · last 14 days vs 30 +22.8%
Value	C	47.4	$144.63 (median of 30+ sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z +1.15 vs price z +1.28
Liquidity	A+	100	30+ sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-23

2026: .273/.413/.654, 48 HR in 560 PA (A+ / AA). Path: No settled MLB 3B (Hamilton, Rengifo, Ortiz split starts); no higher-ranked org prospect at 3B. Note: 48 HR — most in a minor-league season since 1982; BA's Brewers Minor League Player of the Year. Not in the Top 100 on contact concerns (34% K).

Card graded: Andrew Fischer 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-AF (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

2 Marek HoustonSS · Minnesota Twins · age 22 B69.6 PediB+PerfBPathBMomeC-ValuALiquA

Pedigree	B+	75.7	prospect standing 72/100 · acquisition capital 82.6/100
Performance	B	67.3	index 121.6 (OPS vs level 118.5, age +2.3, discipline +0.8) · 554 PA
Path	B	65	ETA 2028 · soft path
Momentum	C-	46.1	1M -9.1% · 3M +25.7% · last 14 days vs 30 -14.3%
Value	A	83.4	$30.00 (median of 17 sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z +0.54 vs price z -1.13
Liquidity	A	84.2	17 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-23

2026: .312/.392/.455, 50 SB in 554 PA (A+ / AA). Path: No settled Twins SS, but Culpepper (#31 overall) is already in the majors ahead of him. Note: Reached Double-A Wichita in his first full season.

Card graded: Marek Houston 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-MHO (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

3 Edward FlorentinoOF · Pittsburgh Pirates · age 19 B67.9 PediB+PerfB+PathBMomeD+ValuB-LiquA+

Pedigree	B+	72.6	prospect standing 87.6/100 · acquisition capital 44.9/100
Performance	B+	76.2	index 132.8 (OPS vs level 123.9, age +8.7, discipline +0.2) · 475 PA
Path	B	65	ETA 2028 · soft path
Momentum	D+	36.5	1M -4.8% · 3M -23% · last 14 days vs 30 +0%
Value	B-	60.5	$70.00 (median of 30+ sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z +0.69 vs price z +0.17
Liquidity	A+	100	30+ sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-17

2026: .235/.366/.509, 27 HR in 475 PA (A / A+) at 19. Path: Reynolds (LF), Cruz (CF), Valdez (RF) in Pittsburgh; Pirates' top OF prospect. Note: 2026 Futures Game (NL). Ankle injury slowed his spring.

Card graded: Edward Florentino 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-EF (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

4 Justin GonzalesOF/1B · Boston Red Sox · age 19 B-62.4 PediC+PerfB+PathCMomeC+ValuD+LiquA+

Pedigree	C+	57.7	prospect standing 70/100 · acquisition capital 34.9/100
Performance	B+	72.9	index 128.7 (OPS vs level 117.2, age +9.8, discipline +1.7) · 507 PA
Path	C	52.5	ETA 2028 · blocked path
Momentum	C+	57.9	1M +4.7% · 3M +29.6% · last 14 days vs 30 -14%
Value	D+	40.5	$80.52 (median of 30+ sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z -0.1 vs price z +0.38
Liquidity	A+	100	30+ sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-24

2026: .266/.385/.449, 19 HR in 507 PA (A+ / AA) at 19. Path: Duran, Abreu and Anthony hold the MLB outfield; he is Boston's top OF prospect. Note: Reached Double-A Portland at 19.

Card graded: Justin Gonzales 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-JG (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

5 Ethan HollidaySS · Colorado Rockies · age 19 B-62.2 PediA+PerfB-PathC-MomeC-ValuC-LiquA

Pedigree	A+	93.5	prospect standing 91.2/100 · acquisition capital 97.7/100
Performance	B-	62.3	index 140.4 (OPS vs level 136, age +6, discipline -1.6) · 152 PA, weighted 40% for sample
Path	C-	45	ETA 2029 · soft path · health -10
Momentum	C-	41.4	1M -1.9% · 3M -16.3% · last 14 days vs 30 -1.2%
Value	C-	41.3	$105.00 (median of 19 sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z +0.35 vs price z +0.79
Liquidity	A	87.2	19 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-15

2026: .262/.395/.557 in 152 PA (Single-A) before a foot stress fracture. Path: Tovar holds SS long-term; Pipeline projects him at 3B. Rockies #1 prospect. Note: Left-foot stress fracture in May ended his season early.

Card graded: Ethan Holliday 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-EH (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

6 Gage JumpLHP · Athletics · age 23 · graduated to MLB B-61.4 PediA-PerfB-PathA-MomeFValuA-LiquD+

Pedigree	A-	77.4	prospect standing 84/100 · acquisition capital 65.1/100
Performance	B-	64.9	MLB: FIP 3.9, K–BB 14.2% · 437 BF
Path	A-	80	ETA 2026 · open path · health -15
Momentum	F	8.8	1M -18% · 3M -50.4% · last 14 days vs 30 +0%
Value	A-	82.1	$39.75 (SportsCardsPro ungraded value (fewer than 5 sales in 30 days)) · fundamentals z +0.9 vs price z -0.7
Liquidity	D+	40.4	3 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-08-31

2026: MLB: 20 starts, 98.2 IP, 5.47 ERA, 108 K / 46 BB. Path: In the A's MLB rotation; shut down Sep 15 (left shoulder impingement). Note: Graduated — debuted in May (2.93 ERA first 7 starts, 7.21 last 13). The market now moves to his MLB rookie card.

Card graded: Gage Jump 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-GJ (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

7 Aiva ArquetteSS · Miami Marlins · age 22 C+57.9 PediA-PerfC+PathB-MomeDValuC+LiquC

Pedigree	A-	82.1	prospect standing 76.4/100 · acquisition capital 92.7/100
Performance	C+	56.1	index 110.5 (OPS vs level 109.5, age +3.5, discipline -2.6) · 291 PA, weighted 70% for sample
Path	B-	60	ETA 2028 · soft path · health -5
Momentum	D	33	1M +2.5% · 3M -39.5% · last 14 days vs 30 +0%
Value	C+	55	$64.36 (median of 5 sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z +0.29 vs price z +0.04
Liquidity	C	52.2	5 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-06

2026: .272/.326/.459, 12 HR, 21 SB in 291 PA (A+ / AA) around three injuries. Path: Otto Lopez holds MLB SS; no Marlins SS prospect ranks above him. Note: Core-muscle surgery (Feb 27), then wrist soreness and a six-week left-thumb IL stint from Jun 30; back and playing at Double-A. Not on a 2026 Arizona Fall League roster.

Card graded: Aiva Arquette 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-AA (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

8 Wehiwa AloySS · Baltimore Orioles · age 22 C+57.3 PediCPerfBPathCMomeCValuD+LiquA+

Pedigree	C	48.1	prospect standing 34/100 · acquisition capital 74.2/100
Performance	B	65.4	index 119.3 (OPS vs level 121.3, age +1.3, discipline -3.3) · 533 PA
Path	C	52.5	ETA 2028 · blocked path
Momentum	C	48.8	1M +2.6% · 3M -7.9% · last 14 days vs 30 +0%
Value	D+	40.7	$60.00 (median of 30+ sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z -0.54 vs price z -0.07
Liquidity	A+	100	30+ sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-21

2026: .288/.358/.506, 25 HR, 20 SB in 533 PA (A+ / AA). Path: Gunnar Henderson holds SS, Jackson Holliday is on the MLB infield; no Orioles SS prospect above him. Note: Reached Double-A Chesapeake.

Card graded: Wehiwa Aloy 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-WA (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

9 Daniel PierceSS · Tampa Bay Rays · age 20 C-45.6 PediD+PerfCPathD-MomeD+ValuCLiquA

Pedigree	D+	41	prospect standing 19/100 · acquisition capital 81.7/100
Performance	C	50.4	index 101.4 (OPS vs level 103.7, age +3, discipline -5.4) · 140 PA, weighted 40% for sample
Path	D-	20	ETA 2029 · heavy path · health -15
Momentum	D+	39.6	1M +1.6% · 3M -22.1% · last 14 days vs 30 -5.8%
Value	C	48.8	$18.50 (median of 18 sales, last 30 days) · fundamentals z -1.93 vs price z -1.87
Liquidity	A	85.7	18 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-09-24

2026: .252/.336/.390 in 140 PA (Single-A) before shoulder surgery. Path: Walls and Carson Williams in Tampa; Grady Emerson (#10 overall) and Cooper Flemming rank above him. Note: Left-shoulder subluxation needed surgery; expected back by spring 2027.

Card graded: Daniel Pierce 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-DP (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

10 Seong-Jun KimSS/RHP · Texas Rangers · age 19 D33.4 PediC-PerfB-PathD-Mome—ValuFLiquF

Pedigree	C-	46.3	prospect standing 34/100 · acquisition capital 69/100
Performance	B-	60	index 126.8 (OPS vs level 127.8, age +3.4, discipline -4.4) · 186 PA, weighted 50% for sample
Path	D-	27.5	ETA 2030 · heavy path
Momentum	—	—	no sale in 30 days — not graded
Value	F	0.2	$131.25 (SportsCardsPro ungraded value (fewer than 5 sales in 30 days)) · fundamentals z -1.36 vs price z +1.13
Liquidity	F	0	0 sales in 30 days · last sale 2026-08-05

2026: .287/.392/.522 in 186 PA (ACL / Single-A); 14.2 IP, 0.61 ERA as a pitcher. Path: Seager holds SS long-term; Walcott, Castillo and Comeau (SS/3B) rank above him in the org. Note: Two-way debut at Hickory Aug 19 (2 IP, 4 K) after finishing high school in Korea.

Card graded: Seong-Jun Kim 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-SK (2026 Bowman), raw. Grades as of Sep 24, 2026; 3- and 6-month grade history appears as the grades age.

How the grades work

Pedigree (20%) — Draft capital and where the prospect lists have him today.
Performance (25%) — 2026 production vs. the level, adjusted for age and sample size.
Path (15%) — ETA and who is ahead of him in the organization, less injury time.
Momentum (15%) — The chart: 1- and 3-month change in the raw auto, plus the last two weeks of sales.
Value (15%) — His fundamentals vs. his price, relative to the other nine names.
Liquidity (10%) — Raw-auto sales in the last 30 days — can you actually sell it?.

Scale. Each factor is scored 0–100 on a fixed rule, then lettered: A+ 90+, A 83, A− 77, B+ 71, B 65, B− 59, C+ 53, C 47, C− 41, D+ 35, D 28, D− 20, F below. Fixed, not curved — ten names is too few to grade on a curve. A factor with no data shows “—” and its weight is spread across the others.

Small samples. Performance is pulled toward average in proportion to playing time (full weight at 400 plate appearances or 350 batters faced), so 140 hot plate appearances can't masquerade as a season.

Value is relative. On Sep 24, 2026, fundamentals (pedigree, performance, path) explained only 9% of the price spread across these ten cards — this market prices story as much as tools. So Value reads how far up the group a player's fundamentals sit against how far up the group his price sits. Positive = more player per dollar.

Sources. Prices: dated SportsCardsPro sales of the raw auto (never asking prices). Stats: 2026 season, MLB Stats API. Ranks and ETAs: MLB Pipeline (in-season update, Aug 13 2026). Path is a published rule — open, soft, blocked or heavily blocked — read from the MLB depth chart and the org's Top 30. Every input is re-read before a re-grade.

Also Worth Tracking

5 More 2026 Bowman Prospects to Watch

The next tier — lower price points, higher variance. These are the names to monitor for any early performance spike that could move their cards quickly.

⚾ SS · Minnesota Twins · #16 Pick

Marek Houston

Wake Forest → Twins Organization

Zone control-first approach from Wake Forest — nearly as many walks as strikeouts in college. The Twins' system ranks him #8 in their farm. Long-term contact floor with room to add power as he physically develops. A solid lottery ticket at accessible prices.

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⚾ RHP · Athletics · #73 Pick 2024

Gage Jump

LSU → A's Organization · #49 MLB.com

A low arm slot that creates deception, and velocity that has taken a real step forward — now averaging 94.6 mph and touching triple digits. The #49 MLB.com ranking is the highest of any pitcher in this set. Pitchers carry more risk but Jump's profile is legitimate. Highest-ranked arm in the 2026 Bowman class.

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⚾ SS · Miami Marlins · #7 Overall Pick 2025

Aiva Arquette

Oregon State → Marlins · ranked #5 here Jun 12 – Sep 8

The 6-foot-5, 220-pound shortstop with the loudest bat speed in the class — and a card that hasn't been able to hold a bid. Demoted Sep 8 after Gonzales out-printed him two straight weeks; raw held $59.50 (his one dated PSA 10 sale is $76.00, Aug 21 2026). Our June BUY at $70 is down 15%, early, not graded, and listed in Off the Board above. Two green weeks on real volume puts the re-entry case back on the table.

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⚾ SS/RHP · Texas Rangers · IFA 2025 · Two-Way

Seong-Jun Kim

South Korea → Rangers · ranked #5 here Aug 18 – Oct 6

A two-way prospect from South Korea who projected as a first-round KBO pick; he both pitches and plays shortstop. Off the board Oct 6 because his card has not sold since Aug 5 ($122.50), so it has no 30-day sold mark; the 90-day median is $130.00 on 5 sales. Our Aug 18 Pass at $131.25 stands and is on Off the Board above. A printed sale puts him back on the ladder at whatever it prints.

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⚾ SS · Tampa Bay Rays · #14 Pick

Daniel Pierce

Georgia Prep → Rays Organization

Off the board Aug 18: the tape has printed lower for a month and sits at class lows. The Rays-pipeline thesis hasn't shown up yet, and our June BUY is down 46% after eight weeks — early, not graded, and we're not hiding it. Mature approach and elite org development keep him worth tracking; if you own him, nothing about the reason has changed, only the price.

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⚾ Live Signals · Updated Daily

Every 1st Bowman Chrome Auto — Signal Board

Chart-derived BUY / HOLD / SELL across the full prospect list — not just our top 10. One canonical card per player (the 1st Bowman Chrome auto), marked nightly from the cheapest verified eBay asks — always higher than what cards actually sell for, so read these as the seller side of the market. Ranked prices above are solds. How our prices work →

Signals begin once nightly history accrues.
The engine banks one data point per prospect each night, and BUY / HOLD / SELL calls turn on after 20 days of history. The board launches as a price board and matures into a signal board over the coming weeks — check back.

Set Details

2026 Bowman Baseball — The Full Breakdown

Released May 13, 2026. 100-card veteran/rookie base (never 1sts), 150 Prospects in Chrome (BCP, the chase) and on paper (BP, not the chase), plus 87 on-card Chrome Prospect Autographs (76 of them 1st Bowman autos, per Checklist Insider). Here's every box format, price, and what to expect per rip.

Format	Config	MSRP	Auto Guarantee	Notes
Hobby Box	20 packs / 8 cards	$239.99	1 auto	18 inserts, 1 Chrome Mini Diamond Refractor, 1 Chrome X-Fractor, 2 Power Chords
Jumbo Box	12 packs / 28 cards	$519.99	3 autos	12 inserts per box. Best odds on rare parallels.
Mega Box	Retail	$49.99	1 auto avg	2 Chrome Lazer Parallels per box
Value Blaster	6 packs / 10 cards	$29.99	No guarantee	Entry-level retail. Best for building paper base sets cheap.
Breaker's Delight	10 cards/box	Varies	2 autos	Designed for breakers. Higher auto density per dollar.
Sapphire Edition	Exclusive format	$599.99	Exclusive	Sapphire reissue of May’s BCP-1–150 (same 1st marks). Released Jun 10, 2026.

What's New + What Returns

2026 Bowman Inserts & Key Parallels

New inserts drive short-term pack-ripping demand and create chase targets beyond just Chrome Autos. Here's what's in the 2026 set.

Insert · Hitters

Electric Sluggers

Power hitters spotlighted in a new electric design theme. Strong secondary market appeal for top prospects.

Insert · Die-Cut

Power Cords

Guitar-shaped die-cut cards for the game's most explosive hitters. Die-cut novelty drives collector interest.

Insert · Chrome

Chrome Packfractor Variation

New Chrome Prospect Packfractor variation. Exclusive visual twist on base chrome stock.

Auto Subset

Bowman Sterling

Bowman Sterling Autograph Parallel, a hobby case hit (about 1 per 12–13 hobby cases, per Cardsmiths). Print runs unverified.

Insert

Patchwork

New insert design for 2026. Details TBC but adds another layer to the non-auto chase.

Insert

Under the Radar

Highlights emerging prospects and rookies flying below the radar. Long-term sleeper narrative appeal.

Returns · Fan Favorite

Crystallized

Agate-inspired backdrop with crystal textures. Debuted 2025, already a collector favorite. Returns for 2026.

Returns · Hype

Anime

Consistently the most talked-about Bowman insert. 2026 adds Kanji variations for Japanese players and WBC uniform versions.

Returns

Bowman Spotlight

Back for another year. Premium prospect spotlight insert with strong secondary demand.

Returns · Redemption

Red Rookie Redemption

Short-printed Red RC variations redeemable for Fanatics FanCash if the player wins ROY, MVP, or Cy Young. Returns after successful 2025 debut.

Returns

Etched-In Glass Variation

Premium visual insert returning from 2025. Top-tier secondary demand, especially on star prospects.

Auto · Inscriptions

"My 1st Bowman" Inscriptions

“My First Bowman Auto” inscription on card #1/150 of the Blue /150 auto only (the 2024 program); 2026 details unverified.

Parallel Rainbow — Key Tiers

Chrome Prospects (BCP): Refractor /499 → Purple /250 → Blue /150 → Green /99 → Yellow /75 → Gold /50 → Orange /25 (hobby) → Black /10 → Red /5 → SuperFractor 1/1. Paper BP parallels exist too; they are not the chase.
Chrome Prospect Autos (2026 Bowman, on-card): Refractor /499 → Speckle /299 → Purple /250 → Blue /150 → Green /99 (retail) → Yellow /75 → Gold /50 → Orange /25 (hobby only) → Black /10 → Red /5 → SuperFractor 1/1, plus four 1/1 plates. New for 2026: Gold Ink /15 and PackFractor /89. Same-number finish twins (Shimmer, X-Fractor, Lava) are separate cards.
Hobby Exclusive: Orange Refractor /25 — highest-demand numbered parallel for top prospects.

What to Skip

2026 Bowman Cards to Avoid

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Paper base prospects at retail price when Chrome exists — Base paper prospects are fun pack-rip fodder, but the Chrome version of the same card carries dramatically better long-term value. If you're buying to hold, buy Chrome.

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Ungraded parallels of players with no MLB.com ranking — Bowman has 150 prospects. Most will never reach the big leagues. Don't pay premium parallel prices for a name you found by Googling yourself.

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Red RC Redemption cards at inflated secondary prices — The redemption value is capped. If you're paying over $50 for a Red RC card of any player not in the top 20 prospect rankings, the math doesn't work unless he wins ROY.

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Pitchers beyond Gage Jump at elevated prices — Pitchers carry inherent injury risk and career trajectory variance. Gage Jump is the one arm in this class with a legitimate ceiling. Be skeptical of paying hitter-level premiums for the rest.

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Off-center or surface-issue Chrome autos at any price — A centering issue on a Chrome Auto is a PSA 7 waiting to happen. If you're paying $50+ for a raw auto, inspect centering carefully. A miscut Holliday auto at $70 is not a deal — it's a trap.

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