Liberts Aponte
SS · Rookie · 18.0y · #378 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
68 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
10 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
Closest of his is LIBERTS APONTE 2025 BOWMAN CHROME #CPA-LA…. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Liberts Aponte scores 68 out of 100 (#378 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +1.0y vs his level at Rookie — younger than 80% 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
+1.0y vs his level at Rookie — younger than 80% of the players there.
Power slipping
.214 last season to .163 this one.
The case is fading
Baseball momentum 0/100 — the on-field case is fading. Read from his baseball alone — never from what his cards did.
Plate discipline: plus
20.0% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 79% at his level.
Premium position
SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Power: above average
.163 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 77% 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.
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: 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LA — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 2 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.
2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LA
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 2 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
No live ask and no confirmed sale on any version of his cards, so there is nothing here to call good or bad value.
What would make this a buy
- Waiting on sales
- Player not there yet
What is for sale right now
10 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 10 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 4 are under "The whole live market".
Liberts Aponte 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor Auto /499 #CPA-LA Reds
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 2d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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sold $29.95
PASS · 17% under
2025 Bowman Chrome Liberts Aponte Auto /499 1st Chrome Refractor #CPA-LA Reds
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 7d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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sold $29.95
PASS
2025 Bowman Chrome Autograph Liberts Aponte 1st Prospect AUTO Reds PSA 10 GEM
Red · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 10d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$149.99
modeled ~$205.00
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2025 Bowman Chrome LIBERTS APONTE Mega Purple Mojo-Refractor AUTO, #/199, Reds
/199 · raw · condition not stated · listed 4d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
LIBERTS APONTE 2025 BOWMAN CHROME #CPA-LA TRUE ORANGE /25 1ST AUTO PSA 9
/25 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 6d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
Liberts Aponte Orange Wave /25 Auto PSA 10 2025 Bowman Chrome #CPALA 1st
/25 · PSA 10 · listed 7d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
What the same money buys today
Nothing of his is worth buying right now. These live cards from other players are the ones we rate as a buy or a watch at the same budget — not a view on Liberts Aponte, just what the money can do today.
- Luke AdamsRefractor · /100$129.97Watch
- Luke AdamsRefractor · /100$129.99Watch
- Walker Jenkinsbase$147.98Watch
Compared within $75.00–$157.49, about what his own cheapest card costs. Ranked on the price-blind investment score among the 60 live listings we had scored — a read on what we scanned, not on the whole market.
Your research
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Your target
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
What he is good atSkills 57 on the 20–80 scale, against 1087 hitters at Rookie
What he is good at
skills overall 57 / 80
On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 1087 hitters at Rookie — measured against real players at the same level right now — not a scout's projection of what he becomes.
Contact
Can he hit it?
56
above average · better than 73% at his level
16.7% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
57
above average · better than 77% at his level
.163 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
58
plus · better than 79% at his level
20.0% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
56
above average · better than 73% at his level
44 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
66
plus-plus · better than 95% at his level · the result, not a skill
1.007 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?
58
plus · better than 80% at his level · context, not a skill
+1.0y 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 76th percentile of the cohort, production at the 95th — 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 76 and his production sits at 95, a gap of -19. 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 1,087 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 21th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.5 / 10
- hitting well — 1.007 OPS in 150 PA (not ranked against his level)
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 82% of what it wants to know — missing readiness.
How he is playingThe Rookie line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 1087 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
150
AVG
.351
OBP
.493
SLG
.514
OPS
1.007
better than 95%
HR
2
SB
11
BB%
20.0
K%
16.7
Is this player getting better?
Hitting better than last season — .829 up to 1.007 OPS.
Still at Rookie, the same level as last season.
OPS
.829▲1.007
Power
.214▼.163
Walks
15.0%▲20.0%
Strikeouts
18.1%▼16.7%
Last season, 193 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.
The whole live market10 listed · 10 eBay-verified · 4 not shown above
- Listings
- 10
- Lowest seen
- $149.99
- Median ask
- $149.99
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $149.99
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
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10 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 14 hours ago.
The other 4 cards
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.
Worth reading for this player
- Parallel scarcity calculator — numbered parallels of his cards are in play, and print run drives the premium
- Best Offer calculator — at least one of his live listings accepts offers
- Certified vs aftermarket autographs — signed cards of his are listed, and the two kinds are not worth the same
- Parallels and print runs — his market includes numbered parallels, which are priced off the print run