Alberth Palma
SS · Low-A · 20.0y · #2281 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Nothing listed
- What to do
- Nothing to buy
47 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
Nothing of his is in the store right now. That is a statement about inventory, not about the player — the search links at the foot of the page ask eBay directly.
No card of his is listed, and we have no benchmark price to set a target against yet.
Our take
Fringe prospect, nothing for sale.
Alberth Palma scores 47 out of 100 (#2281 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +1.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 83% 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.
There is nothing of his to buy right now, so this is a page to come back to rather than act on.
The thing most likely to be wrong here: 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.
The signal
Young for the level
+1.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 83% of the players there.
Power: well below
.030 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
OPS slipping
.850 last season to .601 this one.
Power slipping
.070 last season to .030 this one.
Contact: plus
14.4% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 90% at his level.
Moved up and held it
Rookie to Low-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
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.
Nothing to buy
No card of his is listed in the store right now, so none of the market reading above is actionable today.
What the hobby pays for him
A benchmark is the one standardized card we track a player's market on, so every player's price means the same thing.
Benchmark not yet established — no 1st Bowman vehicle observed for this player. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
The card that matters
A card-quality answer, not a price one. It does not change when a seller changes their mind.
Canonical card not established — We have not assigned him a benchmark card yet, so there is no canonical answer to give. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
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
- Something of his has to be listed before there is anything to act on.
- A promotion, or a stretch that lifts the season line, would move the player side of this.
What is for sale right now
No live listings. Nothing of his is in the store right now.
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 Alberth Palma, just what the money can do today.
- Pedro Ramírezbase$35.94Watch14% under fair value
- Cole CarriggRefractor$14.98Watch42% under fair value
Compared within under $40.00, your stated ceiling. 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.
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
What he is good atSkills 54 on the 20–80 scale, against 530 hitters at Low-A
What he is good at
skills overall 54 / 80
On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 530 hitters at Low-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 90% at his level
14.4% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
39
well below · better than 13% at his level
.030 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 64% at his level
13.8% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
60
plus · better than 84% at his level
46 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
44
below average · better than 28% at his level · the result, not a skill
.601 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?
60
plus · better than 83% 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 63th percentile of the cohort, production at the 28th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 96% 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 63 and his production sits at 28, a gap of +35. 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 529 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 96th percentile.
Will he get there?
Long shot 3.8 / 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 100% of what it wants to know.
How he is playingThe Low-A line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 530 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
443
AVG
.228
OBP
.343
SLG
.258
OPS
.601
better than 28%
HR
0
SB
34
BB%
13.8
K%
14.4
Is this player getting better?
Down from .850 to .601 OPS, but he moved up to Low-A — a step back at a harder level is normal.
Moved up from Rookie to Low-A — the pitching is harder this year.
OPS
.850▼.601
Power
.070▼.030
Walks
19.3%▼13.8%
Strikeouts
9.9%▲14.4%
Last season, 171 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 marketnothing of his is listed
Nothing of his is in the store right now. That is a statement about inventory, not about the player — the search links at the foot of the page ask eBay directly.
What this page is missing2 things 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.
- We do not have a live card to price.