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Kelvin Hidalgo

SS · High-A · 21.0y · #902 of 7,922 we rate

The player
SOLID

59 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.

The market
Untested

24 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.

What to do
Wait

Closest of his is Kelvin Hidalgo 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto…. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Solid prospect, untested market.

Kelvin Hidalgo scores 59 out of 100 (#902 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 90% of the players there.

Nothing of his has verifiably sold in 90 days and there is no benchmark price, so we will not tell you what his cards are worth.

Cards of his are listed and none of them can be priced against a confirmed sale, so any judgment about value today would be a guess dressed as a number.

The thing most likely to be wrong here: nothing has sold — no confirmed sale of any card of his in 90 days, so nothing on this page can tell you what a fair price is.

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +2.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 90% of the players there.

  • Plate discipline: below average

    8.4% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed: above average

    26 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 66% at his level.

  • Moved up and held it

    Low-A to High-A.

  • Premium position

    SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.

  • Power: above average

    .150 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 61% at his level.

Why now

No catalyst right now — no promotion, no logged step change, and no measurable move in his card prices. This is a valuation-driven watch rather than a timing one.

What could go wrong

  • Nothing has sold

    No confirmed sale of any card of his in 90 days, so nothing on this page can tell you what a fair price is.

  • Modeled value only

    The fair values shown for his live cards are arithmetic from related evidence, not confirmed sales of the exact card.

  • Benchmark not checklist-verified

    His core card was identified from how sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.

What the hobby pays for him

Benchmark card: 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-KHI — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 12 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

No price on this card yet

sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 12 copies are listed right now — asking prices are supply, never evidence of what it sells for.

This is his benchmark, not the value of any particular card in front of you — a /250 is a different market.

The card that matters

A card-quality answer, not a price one. It does not change when a seller changes their mind.

2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-KHI

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 12 independent sellers describing it — likely, not established.

A card is never the one to own because it is numbered. Scarcity is a modifier on a vehicle, not a vehicle — a /25 of a card nobody collects is a rarer version of nothing.

Best value right now

Where the money would go today, which is frequently a lesser card than the one above — or nowhere.

Insufficient market evidence

Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, Base at $4.99 — the numbered ones cost more than they are worth, on print run alone. That is a comparison of sellers, not evidence of what these are worth, and it rests on the print-run assumption rather than measured premiums.

What would make this a buy

  • Waiting on sales
  • Player not there yet

What is for sale right now

24 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 24 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 18 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2024 Bowman - Kelvin Hidalgo - Chrome Auto 1st Prospect - Rockies🔥🔥

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 6d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $4.99

    modeled ~$10.50

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo Chrome Auto 1st Prospect Rockies

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 19d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $4.99

    modeled ~$10.50

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2024 Bowman Kelvin Hidalgo Chrome Auto 1st Prospect Rockies

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 225d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $5.31

    modeled ~$10.50

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo 1st Bowman On Card Auto - Rockies

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 146d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.49

    modeled ~$10.50

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo Auto 1st Bowman RC Rookie

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 65d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $9.98

    modeled ~$10.50

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Blue Refractor /150 Kelvin Hidalgo #CPA-KHI Auto 9k6

    /150 · raw · condition not stated · listed 5d

    Not a core card · 3 other things in the way

    Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman

    $13.87

    modeled ~$62.00

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

Your research

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The evidence

Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.

The parallel ladder5 versions of his cards in raw autos, each priced off its own confirmed sales

Every version of his cards we can see, base to 1/1. Each rung is priced off its own confirmed sales — a rung nothing has verifiably sold at shows no value rather than borrowing a neighbour's.

Showing Raw autos.

NO CLEAR SWEET SPOT

No rung of his has a confirmed sale behind it, so there is no price to compare any step against.

  • BaseTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $4.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $4.99 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $20.76, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $20.76 live
    Scarcity
    250 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +316%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $13.87, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $13.87 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -33%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Yellow Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $36.81, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $36.81 live
    Scarcity
    75 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +165%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Refractor /25 and underTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $305.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $305.98 live
    Scarcity
    10 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +731%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

4 listings sit in a different grade class or auto status and is kept off this ladder — a slabbed sale is not evidence about a raw card.

What he is good atSkills 50 on the 20–80 scale, against 492 hitters at High-A

What he is good at

skills overall 50 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 492 hitters at High-A — measured against real players at the same level right now — not a scout's projection of what he becomes.

  • Contact

    Can he hit it?

    48

    average · better than 44% at his level

    26.2% K

    strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    53

    above average · better than 61% at his level

    .150 ISO

    isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    44

    below average · better than 27% at his level

    8.4% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    54

    above average · better than 66% at his level

    26 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    51

    average · better than 53% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .726 OPS

    on-base plus slugging — the result, which carries the luck as well as the skill

  • Age for the level

    Is he doing it young?

    63

    plus · better than 90% at his level · context, not a skill

    +2.0y vs his level

    years younger than the median player at his level — positive is young for the level

The overall figure averages the 4 skill rows only. The box-score row and the age row are shown but deliberately left out of it — one is the result those skills produced, and the other is not a skill at all.

The argument

skills at the 50th percentile of the cohort, production at the 53th — the gap between the two is ordinary for this level.

Nothing to arbitrage here: he is producing about what his skills say he should. Judge the card on price and the player on the grades.

How this is read: his skills average 50 and his production sits at 53, a gap of -3. That gap on its own means little — an average of several percentiles always sits nearer the middle than a single one — so it is ranked against the same figure computed the same way for the 492 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 43th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 5.2 / 10

  • nothing stands out either way

This is an ordering score, not a percentage. We hold no outcome data and have run no backtest, so “a 93% chance of reaching the majors” would be a number we made up and you then spent money on. Built on 100% of what it wants to know.

How he is playingThe High-A line, and how it compares with last season

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 492 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

431

AVG

.252

OBP

.324

SLG

.402

OPS

.726

better than 53%

HR

12

SB

19

BB%

8.4

K%

26.2

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .656 to .726 after moving up to High-A. That is the shape of a breakout.

Moved up from Low-A to High-A — the pitching is harder this year.

OPS

.656▲.726

Power

.098▲.150

Walks

7.3%▲8.4%

Strikeouts

24.7%▲26.2%

Last season, 506 times at bat. Two seasons that already happened. Nothing here is a prediction.

What his cards have sold forno completed sales logged yet

Real completed sales only — nothing here is an estimate. These come from the scan: it asks eBay about listings it has already seen, and one that ends at a fixed price is recorded as a sale. That builds up over days. You can add one by hand below if you happen to know it, but you are not meant to be the price database.

No sales logged yet. We need at least two to draw a line, and about five spread over a month before the numbers mean much. Add sales you find using the button below.

Look up past sales on eBay
The whole live market24 listed · 24 eBay-verified · 18 not shown above
Listings
24

24 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$4.99
Median ask
$19.62
Cheapest 1st auto
$4.99
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$305.98

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 18 cards

  • $13.99KELVIN HIDALGO 2024 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST RC AUTO #CPA-KHILOTTERY
  • $19.622024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Blue Refractor 107/150 Kelvin Hidalgo Auto 03j5LOTTERY
  • $20.002024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo Rookie Refractor Auto PSA 9LOTTERY
  • $20.762024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Purple Refractor 174/250 Kelvin Hidalgo Auto w5pLOTTERY
  • $25.002024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo Rookie Purple Refractor Auto PSA 9 #/250LOTTERY
  • $36.812024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Yellow Refractor /75 Kelvin Hidalgo Auto 0w4dNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $42.042024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Speckle Refractor Kelvin Hidalgo PSA 9 Auto 02leNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $51.822024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Purple Refractor /250 Kelvin Hidalgo Auto 1f5hNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $305.982024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo 1st Pearl Refractor Auto /10 Colorado RockiesNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Kelvin Hidalgo 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto BLUE /150NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Kelvin Hidalgo 2024 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto #CPA-KHI 1st BowmanNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman #CPA-KHI Kelvin Hidalgo 1st Chrome Prospect Mini-Diamond Auto #/100NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Topps 2024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo RC 1st Bowman Auto Rockies #CPA-KHINEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome Kelvin Hidalgo 1ST BOWMAN AUTO Rockies (JN)NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Kelvin Hidalgo Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-KHI RockiesNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Kelvin Hidalgo Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-KHI RockiesNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Kelvin Hidalgo 1st Chrome Auto NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome KELVIN HIDALGO Blue Lunar Ref Auto 150/150 PSA 6NEEDS EVIDENCE
What this page is missing1 thing we do not hold for him

What this page is missing

Everything above is built from what we actually hold. These are the gaps, so you know which parts of the argument are thin rather than wondering why a panel is quiet.

  • We do not have a sold price in 90 days — add one and the whole price side fills in.

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