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Tyler Whitaker

CF · Double-A · 24.0y · #1883 of 7,922 we rate

The player
FRINGE

51 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 2022 Bowman Chrome TYLER WHITAKER Astros… at $14.48. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Fringe prospect, untested market.

Tyler Whitaker scores 51 out of 100 (#1883 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: speed: plus — 35 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 78% at his level.

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: 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

  • Speed: plus

    35 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 78% at his level.

  • Moved up and held it

    High-A to Double-A.

  • Premium position

    CF — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.

  • Plate discipline: above average

    12.2% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 69% at his level.

  • What the hobby pays up for

    CF is a position the hobby pays up for; 24.0 is old for a prospect card.

  • OPS improving

    .634 last season to .715 this one.

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.

  • 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: 2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-TW — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 19 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

No price on this card yet

sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 20 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.

2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-TW

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 19 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

Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, Base at $4.10 — the numbered ones cost more than they are worth, on print run alone. That is a comparison of sellers, not evidence of what these are worth, and it rests on the print-run assumption rather than measured premiums.

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".

  • 2022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker 1st Chrome Prospect Auto Astros

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 171d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $4.10

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto #CPA-TW Houston Astros 1st Card

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 515d

    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.

    $4.75

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2022 1st Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto #CPA-TW Houston Astros

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 731d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $4.98

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker 1st Bowman Base Auto Houston Astros Rookie

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 23d

    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.

    $5.09

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto #CPA-TW 1st Prospect

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 961d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 57h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $5.14

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2022 Bowman Chrome - Tyler Whitaker 1st Auto #CPA-TW

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

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $5.25

    modeled ~$9.26

    LOTTERY

    eBayBreakdown

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The evidence

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

The parallel ladder5 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 $4.10, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $4.10 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • Sapphire RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $14.95, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $14.95 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +265%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $9.03, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $9.03 live
    Scarcity
    499 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -40%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $14.48, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $14.48 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +60%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $63.31, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $63.31 live
    Scarcity
    100 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +337%
    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 52 on the 20–80 scale, against 496 hitters at Double-A

What he is good at

skills overall 52 / 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?

    47

    average · better than 40% at his level

    27.1% 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?

    55

    above average · better than 69% at his level

    12.2% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    58

    plus · better than 78% at his level

    35 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    50

    average · better than 50% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .715 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 58th percentile of the cohort, production at the 50th — 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 58 and his production sits at 50, a gap of +8. 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 62th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 5.3 / 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

361

AVG

.232

OBP

.347

SLG

.368

OPS

.715

better than 50%

HR

8

SB

21

BB%

12.2

K%

27.1

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .634 to .715 after moving up to Double-A. That is the shape of a breakout.

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

OPS

.634▲.715

Power

.126→.136

Walks

11.7%→12.2%

Strikeouts

34.1%▼27.1%

Last season, 402 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 market33 listed · 33 eBay-verified · 27 not shown above
Listings
33

33 eBay-verified

Lowest live
$4.10
Median ask
$13.02
Cheapest 1st auto
$4.10
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$9.03

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 27 cards

  • $5.252022 Bowman Chrome - Tyler Whitaker 1st Auto #CPA-TWLOTTERY
  • $6.562022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker 1st Prospect Auto Autograph #CPA-TW AstrosLOTTERY
  • $9.032022 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor /499 AUTO Tyler Whitaker #CPA-TW AstrosLOTTERY
  • $12.502022 1st Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto Houston AstrosLOTTERY
  • $13.54Tyler Whitaker 2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Autograph Auto Card #CPA-TWLOTTERY
  • $13.99TYLER WHITAKER 2022 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST RC AUTO #CPA-TWLOTTERY
  • $14.482022 Bowman Chrome TYLER WHITAKER Astros Rookie Blue Refractor 1st Auto SP /150LOTTERY
  • $14.952022 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Tyler Whitaker Auto 1st Refractor Houston ASTROS RCLOTTERY
  • $14.992022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker 1st Bowman Auto LOTTERY
  • $19.032022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Purple Refractor Tyler Whitaker PSA 9 MINT Auto 0hj7LOTTERY
  • $19.042022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Tyler Whitaker #CPA-TW PSA 9 MINT Auto 0h2xLOTTERY
  • $30.98Tyler Whitaker 2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto Speckle Refractor #/299 SGC 10 GEM-MTNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $42.042022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Tyler Whitaker #CPA-TW SGC 10 GEM Auto 0o3xNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $63.312022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Atomic Refractor 61/100 Tyler Whitaker Auto nd3NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Tyler Whitaker 1st Green Auto /50 #BSPA-TW Astros RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Tyler Whitaker Chrome Auto Autograph 1st Prospect #CPA-TW AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker 1st Auto CPA-TW AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 1st Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto Houston AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Tyler Whitaker Chrome Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-TW AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 1st Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Prospect Auto Refractor #CPA-TW /499(424🔥NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 1st Bowman Chrome Tyler Whitaker Auto Houston AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —TYLER WHITAKER 2022 Bowman Chrome #CPA-TW 1st Bowman Auto Houston AstrosNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Chrome 1st SPECKLE /299 TYLER WHITAKER Auto #CPA-TWNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 BOWMAN CHROME TYLER WHITAKER 1ST BLUE REFRACTOR AUTO 114/150 HOUSTON ASTROSNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Tyler Whitaker 1ST ROOKIE AUTO CSG 8.5 NM/MT +NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —TYLER WHITAKER 1st 2022 Bowman Chrome SPECKLE AUTO REFRACTOR 57/299 ASTROSNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2022 Bowman Tyler Whitaker Chrome Auto 1st #CPA-TW AstrosPASS
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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