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Luis Guanipa

CF · High-A · 20.0y · #828 of 7,922 we rate

The player
SOLID

60 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
Wait for a better price

Closest of his is Luis Guanipa 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman…. Priced above value.

Our take

Solid prospect, untested market.

Luis Guanipa scores 60 out of 100 (#828 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +3.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 97% of the players there.

His core Bowman card has been selling at $10–18 off 2 confirmed sales.

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: small sample — 90 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +3.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 97% of the players there.

  • Plate discipline: bottom of the scale

    1.1% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • OPS slipping

    .655 last season to .597 this one.

  • Contact: plus

    15.6% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 91% at his level.

  • Moved up and held it

    Low-A to High-A.

  • Premium position

    CF — 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

  • Small sample

    90 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 chrome auto sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.

What the hobby pays for him

Benchmark card: 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LG — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

$9.90–17.60midpoint $11.00

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.

2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LG

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. 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 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospect HTA Choice Mojo Refractor Luis Guanipa Auto 19fe at $126, 1045% over the $11–16 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.

That card at or under $11 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.

What would make this a buy

  • Priced above value
  • Player not there yet
  • On his best-priced card: waiting on sales.

What is for sale right now

11 cards of his are listed, 1 held back on condition or a broken price · 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".

  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Luis Guanipa Auto Orange Refractor 1st #/25 Braves PSA 9

    /25 · PSA 9 · listed 6d

    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.

    $460.00

    modeled $70.47

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Luis Guanipa True Gold Refractor Auto /50 1st Braves PSA 9

    /50 · PSA 9 · listed 58d

    Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way

    $310.00

    modeled $56.38

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Luis Guanipa 1st Mojo Auto /150 PSA 9 Braves

    /150 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 15d

    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.

    $75.99

    modeled $35.24

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman 1st Chrome Purple Refractor /250 Luis Guanipa Auto PSA 10 💎

    /250 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 275d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $265.37

    modeled ~$150.00

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospect 1st Blue Lava Refractor Auto Luis Guanipa /150 🔥🔥

    /150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1075d

    Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way

    $304.98

    modeled $8.91–36.96

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Refractor Auto Luis Guanipa /499 1st Bowman Auto

    /499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 5d

    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 $25.51

    PASS

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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 Luis Guanipa, just what the money can do today.

Compared within $18.00–$37.79, 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 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 $35.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $35.99 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • HTA Choice RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $125.94, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $125.94 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +250%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Blue Lava Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $304.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $304.98 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +142%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

4 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 492 hitters at High-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 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?

    63

    plus · better than 91% at his level

    15.6% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    54

    above average · better than 65% at his level

    .159 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    34

    bottom of the scale · better than 5% at his level

    1.1% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    46

    below average · better than 36% at his level

    7 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

    .597 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?

    69

    plus-plus · better than 97% 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 49th percentile of the cohort, production at the 24th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 88% 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 49 and his production sits at 24, a gap of +25. 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 88th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 5.3 / 10

  • nothing stands out either way

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

90

AVG

.216

OBP

.222

SLG

.375

OPS

.597

better than 24%

HR

2

SB

1

BB%

1.1

K%

15.6

Is this player getting better?

Down from .655 to .597 OPS, but he moved up to High-A — a step back at a harder level is normal.

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

OPS

.655▼.597

Power

.055▲.159

Walks

7.6%▼1.1%

Strikeouts

11.9%▲15.6%

Last season, 118 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 market11 listed · 11 eBay-verified · 4 not shown above
Listings
11

11 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$35.99
Median ask
$265.37
Cheapest 1st auto
$35.99
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$75.99

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 4 cards

  • $35.992023 Bowman Chrome Luis Guanipa Auto 1st Chrome Prospect - BravesPASS
  • $125.942023 Bowman Chrome Prospect HTA Choice Mojo Refractor Luis Guanipa Auto 19fePASS
  • —Topps 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Rookie Auto Luis Guanipa Braves CPA-LGPASS
  • —Luis Guanipa 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CPA-LG 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

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