Conor Essenburg
CF · High-A · 19.0y · #885 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Expensive
- What to do
- Wait for a better price
59 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
His best base card asks $40.16, over the $25–30 that card has sold in.
Closest of his is 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Conor Essenburg Auto at $40.16. Needs a $17 drop.
Our take
Solid prospect, expensive market.
Conor Essenburg scores 59 out of 100 (#885 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +4.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 99% of the players there.
His core Bowman card has been selling at $23–33 off 2 confirmed sales.
The thing most likely to be wrong here: small sample — 78 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
The signal
Young for the level
+4.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 99% of the players there.
Speed: below average
0 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
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-plus
23.1% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 97% at his level.
Premium position
CF — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Contact: above average
20.5% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 74% 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
Small sample
78 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
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 raw base 1st bowman draft chrome auto sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.
Asks above the sold band
Every live card of his we can price is asking more than these have actually sold for, so today's entry is at a premium.
What the hobby pays for him
Benchmark card: 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto CPA-CE — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
$22.50–33midpoint $30.00
Evidence limited· 2 salesmost recent 2026-08-24 · 3 listed now
- 7 days
- not enough sales
- 30 days
- not enough sales
- 90 days
- not enough sales
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 Draft 1st Auto CPA-CE
Raw base 1st Bowman Draft Chrome Auto
The draft-class equivalent of the canonical auto — same card kind, other product line. Identified from 3 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.
No good entry today
The closest to fair is 2025 Bowman Draft Conor Essenburg Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-CE Braves at $55.98, 87% over the $25–30 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.
That card at or under $25 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.
What would make this a buy
- Needs a $17 drop
- Player not there yet
- 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Conor Essenburg Auto at or under $24 delivered.
What is for sale right now
11 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 11 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 5 are under "The whole live market".
Conor Essenburg 2025 Bowman Chrome Draft Gold Wave Refractor 1st RC Auto /50
/50 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 4d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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modeled $32.40–111
PASS
Conor Essenburg 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Prospect Auto Blue Refractor /150
/150 · raw · condition not stated · listed 28d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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modeled $20.25–69.30
PASS
2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Conor Essenburg 1st Auto Refractor #/499 Atlanta Braves
/499 · raw · condition not stated · auction · listed 8d
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.
$125.98
modeled $15.52–53.13
PASS
Conor Essenburg 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Auto RC Refractor /499 #CPA-CE
/499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 8d
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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modeled $15.52–53.13
PASS
Conor Essenburg 2025 Bowman Draft Blue AUTO #077/150 1st Bowman #CPA-CE Braves
/150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 31d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
$291.00
modeled $20.25–69.30
PASS
2025 Bowman Chrome Draft Conor Essenburg Auto True Blue 82/150
/150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 2d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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modeled $20.25–69.30
PASS
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 Conor Essenburg, just what the money can do today.
- Pedro Ramírezbase$35.94Watch14% under fair value
Compared within $20.08–$42.17, 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.
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder3 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 $40.16, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $40.16 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $125.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $125.98 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +214%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $291.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $291.00 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +131%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
What he is good atSkills 53 on the 20–80 scale, against 492 hitters at High-A
What he is good at
skills overall 53 / 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?
56
above average · better than 74% at his level
20.5% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
44
below average · better than 27% at his level
.088 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
69
plus-plus · better than 97% at his level
23.1% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
43
below average · better than 25% at his level
0 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
52
average · better than 58% at his level · the result, not a skill
.739 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?
73
plus-plus · better than 99% at his level · context, not a skill
+4.0y 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 56th percentile of the cohort, production at the 58th — 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 56 and his production sits at 58, a gap of -2. 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 46th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.2 / 10
- young for High-A
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 86% of what it wants to know — missing production.
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
78
AVG
.228
OBP
.423
SLG
.316
OPS
.739
better than 58%
HR
1
SB
0
BB%
23.1
K%
20.5
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 market11 listed · 11 eBay-verified · 5 not shown above
- Listings
- 11
- Lowest live
- $40.16
- Median ask
- $90.98
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $40.16
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $125.98
11 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 14 hours ago.
The other 5 cards
- $40.162025 Bowman Chrome 1st Conor Essenburg AutoPASS
- $55.982025 Bowman Draft Conor Essenburg Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-CE BravesPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Auto Conor Essenburg #CPA-CE Autographs BravesPASS
- —Conor Essenburg 1st Bowman Auto Atlanta Braves CPA-CEPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Conor Essenburg 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-CE Atlanta BravesPASS
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
- What a modeled fair value means — at least one value on this page was modeled rather than taken from a sale
- 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