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Payton Henry

C · Triple-A · 29.0y · #6044 of 7,922 we rate

The player
LONG SHOT

19 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

31 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

Something about this card rules it out no matter the price.

Our take

Long-shot prospect, untested market.

Payton Henry scores 19 out of 100 (#6044 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: premium position — C — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.

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: age for the level — -3.0y vs his level at Triple-A puts him younger than only 17% of the cohort. The clock is a real cost on a prospect card.

The signal

  • Old for the level

    -3.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than only 17% of the players there.

  • Plate discipline: below average

    7.4% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • OPS slipping

    .738 last season to .637 this one.

  • Power slipping

    .166 last season to .120 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.

  • Premium position

    C — 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

  • Age for the level

    -3.0y vs his level at Triple-A puts him younger than only 17% of the cohort. The clock is a real cost on a prospect card.

  • 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: 2019 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-PH — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 22 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

No price on this card yet

sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 24 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.

2019 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-PH

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 22 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

  • On his best-priced card: past the window.
  • A promotion, or a stretch that lifts the season line, would move the player side of this.

What is for sale right now

31 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 31 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 25 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2019 Bowman Chrome #CPA-PH Payton Henry 1st AUTO Rookie Brewers

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 559d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $3.51

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

  • PAYTON HENRY 2019 Bowman Chrome 1st #CPA-PH Rookie RC Autograph Auto

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 694d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $3.64

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

  • 2019 Bowman Chrome #CPA-PH Payton Henry 1st Auto Milwaukee Brewers

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 383d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $3.78

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

  • PAYTON HENRY 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospect #CPA-PH 1st Bowman Rookie Card RC AUTO

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 136d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $4.78

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

  • 2019 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST PROSPECT AUTO PAYTON HENRY BREWERS

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 741d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $4.99

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

  • 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto Payton Henry 1ST BOWMAN AUTOGRAPH CPA-PH

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 596d

    Past the window · 2 other things in the way

    $4.99

    modeled ~$5.00

    PASS

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The evidence

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

The parallel ladder2 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 $3.51, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
  • Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $9.60, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +174%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

2 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 44 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A

What he is good at

skills overall 44 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 728 hitters at Triple-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?

    44

    below average · better than 26% at his level

    27.8% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    46

    below average · better than 36% at his level

    .120 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    42

    below average · better than 21% at his level

    7.4% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    44

    below average · better than 29% 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?

    43

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

    .637 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?

    40

    well below · better than 17% at his level · context, not a skill

    -3.0y 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 28th percentile of the cohort, production at the 24th — 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 28 and his production sits at 24, a gap of +4. 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 726 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 53th percentile.

Will he get there?

Long shot 4.8 / 10

  • already at Triple-A
  • old for Triple-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 Triple-A line, and how it compares with last season

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 728 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

230

AVG

.221

OBP

.296

SLG

.341

OPS

.637

better than 24%

HR

6

SB

0

BB%

7.4

K%

27.8

Is this player getting better?

Down from .738 to .637 OPS this season.

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

OPS

.738.637

Power

.166.120

Walks

7.4%7.4%

Strikeouts

26.0%27.8%

Last season, 269 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 market31 listed · 31 eBay-verified · 25 not shown above
Listings
31

31 eBay-verified

Lowest live
$3.51
Median ask
$6.60
Cheapest 1st auto
$3.51
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$9.60

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 25 cards

  • $4.99Payton Henry 2019 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto BrewersPASS
  • $4.992019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto Payton Henry 1ST BOWMAN AUTOGRAPH CPA-PH PASS
  • $5.002019 Bowman Chrome Auto CPA-PH Payton Henry 1st BowmanPASS
  • $5.092019 Bowman Chrome Payton Henry 1st Bowman Base Auto Milwaukee Brewers RookiePASS
  • $6.302019 Bowman Chrome 1st - Payton Henry #CPA-PH Milwaukee Brewers - AUTOPASS
  • $6.302019 Bowman Chrome 1st - Payton Henry #CPA-PH Milwaukee Brewers - AUTOPASS
  • $6.602019 Payton Henry Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Auto RC #CPA-PH (H645) $6 MAX SHIPPASS
  • $6.972019 Bowman Chrome Prospect Baseball Auto Payton Henry Brewers 1st Bowman CardPASS
  • $7.09PAYTON HENRY 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospect #CPA-PH 1st Bowman Rookie Card RC AUTOPASS
  • $9.602019 Payton Henry Bowman Chrome 1st Blue Refractor Auto /150 #CPA-PH (J347)PASS
  • $10.772019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Payton Henry 1st Rookie Auto Blue Refractor /150PASS
  • $10.772019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Payton Henry 1st Rookie Auto Blue Refractor #70/150PASS
  • $11.74Payton Henry 2019 Bowman 1st Chrome On-Card Auto #CPA-PH Prospect Rookie PWEPASS
  • $12.44Payton Henry 2019 Bowman 1st Chrome On-Card Auto #CPA-PH Prospect Rookie PWEPASS
  • $14.492019 BOWMAN CHROME PAYTON HENRY AUTO RC 1ST BOWMAN BREWERSPASS
  • $14.952019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Autographs 1st Payton Henry Rookie Auto #CPA-PHPASS
  • $16.252019 Bowman Chrome 1st Payton Henry Milwaukee Brewers Prospect Auto #CPA-PHPASS
  • $29.982019 Bowman Chrome Payton Henry CPAPH Gold Refractor Auto PSA 9 Brewers CardPASS
  • $34.24PAYTON HENRY Brewers 2019 Bowman Chrome Refractor #120/499 Rookie RC AUTO PSA 9PASS
  • 2019 BOWMAN CHROME PAYTON HENRY AUTO RC 1ST BOWMAN BREWERSPASS
  • Payton Henry 2019 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospect Refractor Auto /499 #CPA-PHPASS
  • 2019 1st Bowman Chrome #CPA-PH Payton Henry Seattle Mariners Auto On CardPASS
  • 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto Payton Henry 1ST BOWMAN AUTOGRAPH CPA-PH PASS
  • 2019 BOWMAN CHROME PAYTON HENRY CPA-PH 1ST Autograph AUTO BrewersPASS
  • Payton Henry 2019 Draft Chrome 🔥 Auto 1st Bowman Refractor #d /499 🔥 BrewersPASS
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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