Deal Sniper

Jose Salas

2B · Wichita Wind Surge · Double-A · 23.0y · #3453 of 7,922 we rate

The player
FRINGE

40 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
Expensive

His best Mojo Refractor asks $5.49, over the $1.29 that card has sold in.

What to do
Wait

Closest of his is 7486 Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome Green…. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Fringe prospect, expensive market.

Jose Salas scores 40 out of 100 (#3453 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +1.0y vs his level at Double-A — younger than 80% of the players there.

His core Bowman card has been selling at $1–2 off 1 confirmed sale.

The thing most likely to be wrong here: swing-and-miss — contact grades 40 on the 20–80 scale (33.5% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +1.0y vs his level at Double-A — younger than 80% of the players there.

  • Contact: well below

    33.5% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

  • 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.

  • Speed: plus

    48 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 88% at his level.

  • Premium position

    2B — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.

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 40 on the 20–80 scale (33.5% 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 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: 2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-JS — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 6 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

$0.97–1.61midpoint $1.29

Evidence limited· 1 salemost recent 2026-08-24 · 8 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.

2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-JS

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 6 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 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Mojo Refractor Auto #BCMA-JS🔥 at $5.70, 342% over the $1.29 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.

That card at or under $1.29 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.

What would make this a buy

  • Waiting on sales
  • Player not there yet

What is for sale right now

35 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 35 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 29 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Auto Mega Box Mojo Refractor 1st #BCMA-JS Marlins

    Mojo Refractor · raw · condition not stated · listed 156d

    Player not there yet · 2 other things in the way

    Data staleLast confirmed live 57h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $5.49

    sold $1.29

    PASS

  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Mojo Refractor Auto #BCMA-JS🔥

    Mojo Refractor · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 2d

    Not a core card · 4 other things in the way

    Identity uncertainwhether this is a true 1st Bowman

    $5.70

    sold $1.29

    PASS

  • 2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Jose Salas Auto Yellow Refractor /75 CPA-JS Marlins

    /75 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 146d

    Player not there yet · 2 other things in the way

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

    $10.00

    modeled $1.16–4.51

    PASS

  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome #CPA-JS 1st Refractor Auto /499 Miami Marlins

    /499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 395d

    Player not there yet · 2 other things in the way

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

    $10.49

    modeled $0.67–2.60

    PASS

  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Prospect Auto #CPA-JS Jose Salas 1st Bowman 53/499 Refractor

    /499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 1195d

    Player not there yet · 2 other things in the way

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

    $16.85

    modeled $0.67–2.60

    PASS

  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas 1st Prospect Auto SGC 9/10 Rookie #CPa-JS Twins

    /10 · SGC 9 · listed 1020d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $19.99

    no sold price

    PASS

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The evidence

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

The parallel ladder4 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.

  • Mojo RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $5.49, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
  • Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $10.49, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    499 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +91%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $21.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    250 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +100%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Yellow Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $10.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    75 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -52%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

15 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 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?

    40

    well below · better than 15% at his level

    33.5% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    52

    average · better than 59% at his level

    .156 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    43

    below average · better than 24% at his level

    7.4% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    62

    plus · better than 88% at his level

    48 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    43

    below average · better than 24% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .609 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 47th percentile of the cohort, production at the 24th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 85% of the players he is measured against.

The market prices the stat line, and his is behind what he is doing. That is where a card is cheap for a reason that can change.

How this is read: his skills average 47 and his production sits at 24, a gap of +23. 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 85th percentile.

Will he get there?

Long shot 4.5 / 10

  • already at Double-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 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

188

AVG

.187

OBP

.266

SLG

.343

OPS

.609

better than 24%

HR

7

SB

15

BB%

7.4

K%

33.5

Is this player getting better?

About the same as last season — .627 to .609 OPS.

Still at Double-A, the same level as last season.

OPS

.627.609

Power

.142.156

Walks

7.3%7.4%

Strikeouts

27.4%33.5%

Last season, 179 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 market35 listed · 35 eBay-verified · 29 not shown above
Listings
35

35 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$5.49
Median ask
$29.95
Cheapest 1st auto
$5.49
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$10.00

Latest eBay verification: 14 hours ago.

The other 29 cards

  • $21.002021 Topps Chrome 1st Bowman Jose Salas Signed Auto 048/250 Miami MarlinsPASS
  • $23.992021 Bowman Jose Salas Chrome Prospect Auto Refractor /499 PSA 9PASS
  • $28.492021 Bowman Jose Salas Chrome Prospect Auto Speckle Refractor /299 PSA 9PASS
  • $29.952021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas PSA 9 1st Auto Minnesota Twins #CPA-JS MarlinsPASS
  • $30.002021 Bowman Jose Salas Chrome Prospect Auto Refractor /499 PSA 9PASS
  • $30.982021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Jose Salas Rookie Auto Marlins PSA 10PASS
  • $31.942021 1st Bowman Chrome ~ Jose Salas ~ #CPA-JS ~ PSA 10 ~ AutoPASS
  • $39.252021 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Jose Salas Marlins RC Rookie AUTO PSA 9 Crack⚾️PASS
  • $39.742021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Refractor /499 Jose Salas PSA 10 GEM MT Auto 0q4sPASS
  • $40.002021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Auto Purple Refractor /250 PSA 10PASS
  • $44.622021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Refractor 259/499 Jose Salas #CPA-JS Auto jc3PASS
  • $47.792021 Bowman Chrome Green Refractor 58/99 Jose Salas PSA 10 GEM MT Auto fm0PASS
  • $276.252021 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospects Yellow Refractor /75 Jose Salas #CPA-JS AutoPASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Purple Refractor Auto /250 CPA-JS MarlinsPASS
  • 🔥Jose Salas 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Miami Marlins Prospect Auto🔥PASS
  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas 1st Prospect Auto CPA-JS Autograph Marlins AutoPASS
  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Auto Autograph 1st - Miami MarlinsPASS
  • Jose Salas 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Miami Marlins Prospect AutographPASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 1st Bowman Chrome Autograph Auto Minnesota TwinsPASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman 1ST PROSPECT CHROME AUTOGRAPH Miami Marlins AUTO *PASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome Mojo Refractor Auto 1st Autograph #BCMA-JSPASS
  • 2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto Jose SalasPASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome Sapphire 1st Rookie Auto Twins Marlins RCPASS
  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Auto 1st Autograph Rookie RC Marlins #CPA-JSPASS
  • 7486 Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Chrome Green Refractor 1st RC Auto /99 PSA 10PASS
  • SGC 9.5 AUTO 10 JOSE SALAS 2021 BOWMAN CHROME MEGA REFRACTOR PROSPECT #BCMA-JSPASS
  • JOSE SALAS SGC 9.5 2021 BOWMAN CHROME MEGA BOX ORANGE REFRACTOR AUTO 24/25 PASS
  • Jose Salas 2021 Bowman Baseball 🔥 1st Bowman Auto PSA 9 🔥 Marlins ChromePASS
  • 2021 Bowman Chrome Jose Salas Auto Mega Box Mojo Refractor #BCMA-JS MarlinsPASS
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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