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Joe Vetrano

1B · Double-A · 24.0y · #3765 of 7,922 we rate

The player
FRINGE

37 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

33 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

Closest of his is 2023 BOWMAN CHROME 1st JOE VETRANO PURPLE… at $54.91. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Fringe prospect, untested market.

Joe Vetrano scores 37 out of 100 (#3765 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: moved up and held it — High-A to Double-A.

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 39 on the 20–80 scale (34.3% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

The signal

  • Contact: well below

    34.3% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball

  • OPS slipping

    .674 last season to .600 this one.

  • Moved up and held it

    High-A to Double-A.

  • Bat-first profile

    1B — there is no defensive value to fall back on, so the bat has to play.

  • What the hobby pays up for

    1B sells at a discount at equal production; 24.0 is old for a prospect card.

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 39 on the 20–80 scale (34.3% 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.

  • 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: 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CDA-JV — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 4 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

No price on this card yet

sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 4 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 CDA-JV

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 4 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

33 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 33 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 27 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CDA-JV Dodgers

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 114d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $5.24

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Draft 1st Joe Vetrano Auto Autograph #CDA-JV

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 27d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.49

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CDAJV Dodgers 2

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 12d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.50

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CDAJV Dodgers 1

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 12d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.50

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman Chrome Auto #CDAJV Dodgers 3

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 12d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.50

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Prospect Auto #CDA-JV Dodgers

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 725d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $6.99

    modeled ~$8.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

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The evidence

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

The parallel ladder4 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 $5.24, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $5.24 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • Aqua Lava Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $15.02, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $15.02 live
    Scarcity
    199 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +187%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $15.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $15.98 live
    Scarcity
    250 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +6%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $19.94, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $19.94 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +25%
    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 46 on the 20–80 scale, against 496 hitters at Double-A

What he is good at

skills overall 46 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 496 hitters at Double-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?

    39

    well below · better than 13% at his level

    34.3% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    49

    average · better than 46% at his level

    .136 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    49

    average · better than 48% at his level

    9.8% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    48

    average · better than 42% at his level

    14 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 23% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .600 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?

    53

    above average · better than 60% at his level · context, not a skill

    0.0y 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 37th percentile of the cohort, production at the 23th — 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 37 and his production sits at 23, a gap of +14. 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 496 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 73th percentile.

Will he get there?

Long shot 4.5 / 10

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

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 496 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

306

AVG

.191

OBP

.273

SLG

.327

OPS

.600

better than 23%

HR

9

SB

7

BB%

9.8

K%

34.3

Is this player getting better?

Down from .674 to .600 OPS, but he moved up to Double-A — a step back at a harder level is normal.

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

OPS

.674▼.600

Power

.137→.136

Walks

11.1%▼9.8%

Strikeouts

26.8%▲34.3%

Last season, 414 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.

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The whole live market33 listed · 33 eBay-verified · 27 not shown above
Listings
33

33 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$5.24
Median ask
$8.24
Cheapest 1st auto
$5.24
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$15.98

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 27 cards

  • $7.25Joe Vetrano 2023 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Autograph Auto Card #CDA-JVPASS
  • $7.742023 Bowman Chrome Draft 1st Joe Vetrano Auto Autograph #CDA-JVPASS
  • $7.992023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano Chrome Prospect Auto CDA-JV 1st Bowman AutographPASS
  • $8.24Joe Vetrano- 2023 Bowman Draft- 1st Chrome Auto- #CDA-JV Los Angeles Dodgers 💎PASS
  • $9.992023 Bowman Chrome Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Prospect Auto #CDA-JV DodgersPASS
  • $11.242023 Bowman Chrome Joe Vetrano 1st Prospect AUTO (MS)PASS
  • $11.272023 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Joe Vetrano #CDA-JV Auto 10noPASS
  • $15.022023 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Aqua Lava Refractor /199 Joe Vetrano Auto 6o3PASS
  • $15.982023 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Purple Refractor AUTO /250 Joe Vetrano #CDA-JVPASS
  • $19.942023 Bowman Chrome Draft Joe Vetrano Blue 1st Refractor Auto • #CDA-JV • /150PASS
  • $39.562023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano 1st . Chrome Prospect Auto Ref /499 - MINT BGS 9PASS
  • $41.98Joe Vetrano 2023 Bowman Chrome #CDA-JV Gold Shimmer Refractor Auto /50 SGC 9/10PASS
  • $54.912023 BOWMAN CHROME 1st JOE VETRANO PURPLE REFRACTOR AUTO DODGERS /250 PSA 9 RCPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome - Joe Vetrano (#CDA-JV) - 1st Bowman Auto - DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome Joe Vetrano Mojo Refractor Auto 19/150 1st DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Draft #CDA-JV Joe Vetrano 1st Chrome Prospect Auto DodgersPASS
  • —J 2023 Bowman Chrome - Joe Vetrano - 1st Bowman Auto -DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman Refractor Auto #'d/499PASS
  • —Topps 2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman RC Auto PSA 10 #CDA-JVPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome JOE VETRANO 1st Bowman Autograph #CDA-JV Rookie Auto DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Topps Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Bowman Auto Joe Vetrano CDA-JV DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Joe Vetrano 1st Chrome Green Lava Auto /99 SPPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome Joe Vetrano Mojo Refractor Auto 19/150 1st DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Draft Joe Vetrano Chrome 1st Prospect Auto #CDA-JV DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Joe Vetrano 1st Prospect Auto Autograph #CDA-JV DodgersPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Joe Vetrano 1st Bowman Refractor Auto #'d/499PASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome Draft 1st Joe Vetrano Auto Orange Refractor /25PASS
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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