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Dean Curley

SS · Double-A · 22.0y · #461 of 7,922 we rate

The player
SOLID

65 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

11 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
Watch

Nobody has logged a completed sale for this card, so we can't say what it's worth.

Our take

Solid prospect, untested market.

Dean Curley scores 65 out of 100 (#461 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at Double-A — younger than 91% of the players there.

His core Bowman card has been selling at $9–15 off 1 confirmed sale.

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: swing-and-miss — contact grades 37 on the 20–80 scale (35.7% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +2.0y vs his level at Double-A — younger than 91% of the players there.

  • Contact: well below

    35.7% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

  • Power: above average

    .184 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 73% at his level.

  • Moved up and held it

    Low-A to Double-A, though the prior season is a thin sample.

  • Premium position

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

  • Plate discipline: above average

    11.9% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 66% 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

  • Swing-and-miss

    Contact grades 37 on the 20–80 scale (35.7% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

  • 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.

What the hobby pays for him

Benchmark card: 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto CPA-DC — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

$8.71–14.51midpoint $11.61

Evidence limited· 1 salemost recent 2026-08-23 · 2 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-DC

Raw base 1st Bowman Draft Chrome Auto

The draft-class equivalent of the canonical auto — same card kind, other product line. 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.

No good entry today

The closest to fair is (2) 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Dean Curley Auto CPA-DC - 1st Bowman at $36, 210% over the $11.61 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.

That card at or under $11.61 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.

What would make this a buy

  • On his best-priced card: not a core card.
  • A promotion, or a stretch that lifts the season line, would move the player side of this.

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".

  • 🔥⚾️DEAN CURLEY 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Sparkle Refractor Auto /71 #GUARDIANS⚾️🔥

    /71 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 10d

    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.

    —

    modeled $10.45–40.64

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • Dean Curley 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Refractor Auto /499 CPA-DC Guardians

    /499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 12d

    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.

    —

    sold $30

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Dean Curley #CPA-DC 1st Bowman Auto Cleveland

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 16d

    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.

    $34.48

    sold $11.61

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • (2) 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Dean Curley Auto CPA-DC - 1st Bowman

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 3d

    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.

    $36.00

    sold $11.61

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • Dean Curley 2025 Bowman Draft #CPA-DC Chrome Green Lava Auto #/99

    /99 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 4d

    Not a core card · 3 other things in the way

    Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman

    —

    modeled $9.40–36.57

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2025 Bowman Draft - 1st Auto Dean Curley #CPA-DC Sparkle /71 PSA 10

    /71 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 12d

    Not a core card · 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.

    $454.99

    no sold price

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

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 Dean Curley, just what the money can do today.

Compared within $11.53–$24.21, 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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The evidence

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

The parallel ladder1 version 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 $23.06, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $23.06 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —

1 listing sits 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 49 on the 20–80 scale, against 496 hitters at Double-A

What he is good at

skills overall 49 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 496 hitters at Double-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?

    37

    well below · better than 10% at his level

    35.7% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    56

    above average · better than 73% at his level

    .184 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    54

    above average · better than 66% at his level

    11.9% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    48

    average · better than 44% at his level

    14 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    59

    plus · better than 82% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .832 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 91% 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 48th percentile of the cohort, production at the 82th — his results run further ahead of his tools than 94% of the players he is measured against.

The stat line is doing the selling and the skills underneath it are not carrying it. Pay for the line and you are paying for the part that does not repeat.

How this is read: his skills average 48 and his production sits at 82, a gap of -34. 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 496 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 6th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 6.2 / 10

  • already at Double-A
  • hitting well — 0.832 OPS in 126 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 100% of what it wants to know.

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

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 496 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

126

AVG

.275

OBP

.373

SLG

.459

OPS

.832

better than 82%

HR

5

SB

3

BB%

11.9

K%

35.7

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .559 to .832 after moving up to Double-A. That is the shape of a breakout — but last season was a small sample, so go easy on it.

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

OPS

.559▲.832

Power

.031▲.184

Walks

5.7%▲11.9%

Strikeouts

31.4%▲35.7%

Last season, 35 times at bat — a small enough sample that these gaps might just be luck. 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 market11 listed · 11 eBay-verified · 5 not shown above
Listings
11

11 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$23.06
Median ask
$31.65
Cheapest 1st auto
$34.48
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$454.99

Latest eBay verification: 2 days ago.

The other 5 cards

  • —DEAN CURLEY 2025 BOWMAN DRAFT #CPA-DC GREEN LAVA REFRACTOR /99 1ST PROSPECT AUTOPASS
  • $23.062025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Dean Curley #CPA-DC Auto w5pLOTTERY
  • $24.792025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Dean Curley #CPA-DC Auto 1s1hLOTTERY
  • $28.822025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Dean Curley #CPA-DC Auto 0nu6PASS
  • —2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Auto Dean Curley #CPA-DC GuardiansPASS
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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