Welcome to Volume #1 of our 2019 Bowman Baseball Base Auto Pricing Ladder. This report breaks down all of the sales data up through April 26th, 2019. We put these together for most major products (across all sports) as a tool to help you invest smarter and gain an edge within your hobby spend.

2019 Bowman Baseball officially released April 17th, 2019 and it hit the streets on fire. There are some BIG time names on this checklist and they are doing their best to create one of the deepest (and richest) TOP 10 we’ve seen across any product.

We only have 1 week of sales data to breakdown, but there have already been nearly 1,300 sold BASE CHROME autos across the 76 names on the checklist. In comparison to 2018 Bowman Baseball, the average auto price after week 1 is:

2019: $66 

vs

2018: $69

BUT…. to show you how deep this this checklist is… I’ll take out the TOP player in each checklist (Ohtani in 2018 & Franco in 2019)

2019: $44

vs

2018: $29

The 2019 Bowman release is extremely deep…with 8 of the Top 10 average over $100 a card in the first week. There is lots of upside and the hobby is going bonkers over the product.

In this release, we’ll lay out the Top 10 and the 5 “other” guys who we’d recommend watching (based on volume). In addition, we have some information on the value of teams in breaks…and how you might consider spending your money.

Finally at the bottom of the report I tossed in a few charts that intrigue me. I’m not necessarily recommending any particular player, just showing you what the data is potentially telling us.  Let’s dive into this.

If you are curious about last year’s Bowman Draft Ladder — Check out the 10+ releases of the 2018 Bowman Baseball Ladders

And as always, jump into the FORUMS to discuss this in-depth.

2019 Bowman Baseball Base Auto Pricing

Report for auctions ending through April 26th, 2019

Overall Average Base Chrome Prospect Sales Price = $65.93    

Volume this week: A

#1 – Wander Franco

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $487.91

Sales Volume Analysis = A+

Last Week Rank  = 1

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#2 – Vladimir Guerrero Jr

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $390.00

Sales Volume Analysis = C

Last Week Rank  = 2

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#3 – Joey Bart

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $254.83

Sales Volume Analysis = B-

Last Week Rank  = 3

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#4: Marco Luciano

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $149.08

Sales Volume Analysis = B+

Last Week Rank  = 4

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#5: Julio Rodriguez

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $134.50

Sales Volume Analysis = A-

Last Week Rank  = 5

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#6 – Victor Mesa Jr

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $115.37

Sales Volume Analysis = B-

Last Week Rank  = 6

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#7 – Ronny Mauricio

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $106.59

Sales Volume Analysis = B+

Last Week Rank  = 7

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#8 – Eloy Jimenez

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $100.44

Sales Volume Analysis =  C

Last Week Rank  = 8

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’s ending now.

#9: Yusei Kikuchi

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $88.33

Sales Volume Analysis = C+

Last Week Rank  = 9

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#10 – Seuly Matias

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $59.20

Sales Volume Analysis = B-

Last Week Rank  = 10

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

INTERESTING WEEKLY PRICES

Here are a few charts that might be presenting an opportunity. They stuck out to me amongst all of the data from the week.

#32 – Steele Walker

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $19.19

Sales Volume Analysis = A

WAY above average volume in his grouping. Interested to see if this just a high level of interest or a massive print run. The ~$20 average makes me think the volume is going to be intriguing the next few reports. 

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

#23 – Alec Bohm

Average Base Auto Sold Price  = $27.09

Sales Volume Analysis = D-

His 2018 Bowman Draft prices are near $37…. I wouldn’t touch this above $15. 

eBay: CLICK HERE to see his AUTO’S ending now.

TOP TEAMS (by Avg Auto Sales)

Looking for some help as you enter breaks? Here are the TOP TEAMS by average auto price and weighted with the QTY of players for each team.

Find 2019 Bowman Baseball Breaks >>>>> ENDING RIGHT HERE <<<<<

And now…. for a SUPER CHEAT sheet… I have put together something new in this report….

Team Pricing Chart – Breaks

This is designed to give you a complete look at which teams are over or undervalued. This is a pricing summary that takes into consideration the average team prices sales & the value of the base autos (per team). We then break it down into what the average % of value is being paid…and come up with a cost that would be the average market price.

I have these ranked by the teams that have the MOST VALUE at the current average break sales prices. I then have the max price I would pay for each of the teams PER PRODUCT type.

So in this report, the teams that I would take a really close look at would be:

1. Blue Jays
2. White Sox
3. Giants
4. Rays
5. Pirates 
6. Royals

One important note… I do not factor in the prices of any of the veteran hits. So Mike Trout would obviously skew the Angels if I factored that in…. but let’s face it, you are looking at this because of the Prospect / Rookie autos. 🙂

Hope it helps!

Overall Ranking

Here are the OVERALL pricing for all rookies.

Current Pricing for 2019 Bowman Baseball Boxes: RIGHT HERE

Criteria

We run reports on all prospects’ Bowman BASE AUTO sales for a given period. We exclude any variation, auto, insert, graded, or memorabilia prices to make sure you are getting a good representation of the actual base auto pricing. We use Base Auto prices as a baseline because they are considered by many to be the de facto standard for “base” prospect cards for MLB players. We also do our best to remove the countless MISLABELED listings for players, but there is always a chance a random auction can slightly skew the #’s. We’ll keep a close eye.

**NOTE**

Last week we added a new component to the pricing… RELATIVE % change. Instead of just giving you the raw % change week over week, we are factoring in the OVERALL price change for Average Auto prices. This is intended to give you a more realistic picture to how a player is performing against the rest of the field. This also helps remove some of general market pullback that occurs with product releases.

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