Ryan Clifford
1B · Syracuse Mets · Triple-A · 23.0y · #1436 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
56 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
12 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
Closest of his is 2023 Bowman Chrome Ryan Clifford 1st Bowman… at $89.99. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Ryan Clifford scores 56 out of 100 (#1436 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +3.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 95% of the players there.
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: swing-and-miss — contact grades 35 on the 20–80 scale (38.1% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
The signal
Young for the level
+3.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 95% of the players there.
Contact: well below
38.1% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
OPS slipping
.848 last season to .611 this one.
Power slipping
.250 last season to .169 this one.
Power: above average
.169 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 60% at his level.
Moved up and held it
Double-A to Triple-A.
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 35 on the 20–80 scale (38.1% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Corner-only profile
1B carries no defensive fallback — if the bat does not play, there is no version of this that works.
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 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-RC — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 2 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.
2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-RC
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. 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.
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
- Waiting on sales
- Player not there yet
What is for sale right now
12 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 12 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 6 are under "The whole live market".
2023 Bowman Chrome Ryan Clifford 1st Prospect Auto New York Mets CPA-RC
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 11d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$29.50
modeled ~$9.77
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2023 Bowman Chrome Ryan Clifford 1st Bowman Speckle Auto /299 Astros
/299 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 4d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 61h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$89.99
modeled ~$17.00
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2023 Bowman Chrome Ryan Clifford 1st Auto Speckle Refractor /299 PSA 10 NY Mets
/299 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 88d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$281.98
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2023 Bowman- Ryan Clifford - 1st Speckle Refractor Auto /299 🔥 PSA 9🔥#CPA-RC
/299 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 120d
Not a core card · 2 other things in the way
$282.98
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Ryan Clifford Refractor Auto /499 Astros Mets PSA 10
/499 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 104d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$335.49
modeled ~$86.00
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Ryan Clifford Gold Shimmer Auto /50 Clean
/50 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 70d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$350.00
modeled ~$95.00
NEEDS EVIDENCE
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 Ryan Clifford, just what the money can do today.
- Cole CarriggRefractor$14.98Watch42% under fair value
Compared within $14.75–$30.98, 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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Your target
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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 $29.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $29.50 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Speckle /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $89.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $89.99 live
- Scarcity
- 299 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +205%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Shimmer /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $350.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $350.00 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +289%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
5 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 47 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 47 / 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?
35
well below · better than 7% at his level
38.1% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
53
above average · better than 60% at his level
.169 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
50
average · better than 51% at his level
10.9% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
50
average · better than 49% at his level
11 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
42
below average · better than 20% at his level · the result, not a skill
.611 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?
66
plus-plus · better than 95% 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 42th percentile of the cohort, production at the 20th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 82% 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 42 and his production sits at 20, a gap of +22. 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 82th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 6.3 / 10
- already at 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
431
AVG
.175
OBP
.267
SLG
.344
OPS
.611
better than 20%
HR
16
SB
8
BB%
10.9
K%
38.1
Is this player getting better?
Down from .848 to .611 OPS, but he moved up to Triple-A — a step back at a harder level is normal.
Moved up from Double-A to Triple-A — the pitching is harder this year.
OPS
.848▼.611
Power
.250▼.169
Walks
14.4%▼10.9%
Strikeouts
25.9%▲38.1%
Last season, 437 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.
The whole live market12 listed · 12 eBay-verified · 6 not shown above
- Listings
- 12
- Lowest seen
- $29.50
- Median ask
- $282.48
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $29.50
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $89.99
12 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 6 cards
- —2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Ryan Clifford Auto Houston Astros ProspectNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Ryan Clifford 1st Bowman 1st Edition Auto /150 PSA 9 Mets Bowman AutoNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Ryan Clifford True Blue Refractor 1st Auto /150 PSA 10 Mets RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Ryan Clifford #CPA-RC Green Shimmer Mint 9 Auto 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 BOWMAN CHROME RYAN CLIFFORD AUTO GREEN GRASS REFRACTOR 1ST BOWMAN #20/99 NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Ryan Clifford Chrome 1st Refractor Auto /499 Astros CPA-RCPASS
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
- 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