Diego Hernandez
SS · Rookie · 17.0y · #734 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
61 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
32 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 Diego Hernandez 💎 1st… at $11.10. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Diego Hernandez scores 61 out of 100 (#734 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at Rookie — younger than 100% 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: small sample — 78 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
The signal
Young for the level
+2.0y vs his level at Rookie — younger than 100% of the players there.
The case is fading
Baseball momentum 0/100 — the on-field case is fading. Read from his baseball alone — never from what his cards did.
Contact: plus
15.4% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 79% at his level.
Premium position
SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Speed: above average
46 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 75% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
SS is a position the hobby pays up for; only 17.0 — years of runway.
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
Small sample
78 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
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 CPA-DH — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 7 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 7 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-DH
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 7 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, /250 at $5.78 costs 1.52× base, and print run alone suggests 1.30×, with no measured sales to check it against — best balance available. 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
32 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 32 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 26 are under "The whole live market".
2023 1st Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs Diego Hernandez Auto #CPA-DH Royals
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 58d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$3.81
modeled ~$20.00
LOTTERY
2023 Bowman Diego Hernandez Chrome Auto 1st Refractor #'d /499
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 32d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$4.49
modeled ~$45.00
LOTTERY
2023 Diego Hernandez Bowman Chrome 1st Chrome purple Auto /250 #CPA-DH
/250 · raw · condition not stated · listed 94d
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.
$5.78
modeled ~$22.50
LOTTERY
2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor AUTO /499 Diego Hernandez #CPA-DH Royals
/499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 241d
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.
$5.94
modeled ~$45.00
LOTTERY
2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor AUTO /499 Diego Hernandez #CPA-DH Royals
/499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 241d
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.
$5.94
modeled ~$45.00
LOTTERY
Diego Hernandez - 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospect Refractor Auto /499 - Royals
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 453d
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.
$6.10
modeled ~$45.00
LOTTERY
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder7 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 $3.81, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $3.81 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- True Blue RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $11.10, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $11.10 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +191%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $4.49, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $4.49 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -60%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Speckle Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $6.48, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $6.48 live
- Scarcity
- 299 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +44%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $5.78, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $5.78 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -11%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue Lunar /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $7.78, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $7.78 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +35%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Shimmer Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $15.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $15.00 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +93%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
7 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 54 on the 20–80 scale, against 1087 hitters at Rookie
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 1087 hitters at Rookie — measured against real players at the same level right now — not a scout's projection of what he becomes.
Contact
Can he hit it?
58
plus · better than 79% at his level
15.4% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
52
average · better than 56% at his level
.117 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
47
average · better than 39% at his level
14.1% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
57
above average · better than 75% 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?
51
average · better than 53% at his level · the result, not a skill
.747 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?
80
elite · better than 100% at his level · context, not a skill
+2.0y 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 62th percentile of the cohort, production at the 53th — 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 62 and his production sits at 53, a gap of +9. 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 1,087 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 63th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.0 / 10
- young for Rookie
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 68% of what it wants to know — missing readiness, production.
How he is playingThe Rookie line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 1087 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
78
AVG
.233
OBP
.397
SLG
.350
OPS
.747
better than 53%
HR
0
SB
6
BB%
14.1
K%
15.4
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 market32 listed · 32 eBay-verified · 26 not shown above
- Listings
- 32
- Lowest live
- $3.81
- Median ask
- $7.89
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $3.81
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $4.49
32 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 26 cards
- $6.482023 Bowman Chrome- Diego Hernandez - 1st Chrome Speckle Refractor Auto /299 💎LOTTERY
- $6.992023 Bowman Chrome Diego Hernandez Auto 1st Bowman #CPA-DHLOTTERY
- $7.102023 Bowman Chrome Diego Hernandez 1st AutoLOTTERY
- $7.20Diego Hernandez - 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospect 1st Bowman Autograph ON-CARD AUTOLOTTERY
- $7.782023 Diego Hernandez Bowman Chrome 1st Blue Lunar Auto /150 #CPA-DHLOTTERY
- $8.492023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Auto Speckle Refractor /299 Diego HernandezLOTTERY
- $8.782023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Auto Speckle Refractor /299 Diego HernandezLOTTERY
- $9.602023 Diego Hernandez Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Auto RC #CPA-DH (F1305)LOTTERY
- $11.102023 Bowman Chrome Diego Hernandez 💎 1st True Blue Refractor Auto #CPA-DHLOTTERY
- $11.902023 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST SPECKLE REFRACTOR DIEGO HERNANDEZ AUTO /299 #CPA-DHLOTTERY
- $15.002023 Bowman Chrome 1ST Gold Shimmer Refractor AUTO Diego Hernandez 33/50LOTTERY
- $16.002023 Bowman Chrome Refractor Diego Hernandez Auto /499 PSA 9 Kansas City RoyalsLOTTERY
- $19.982023 Bowman Chrome DIEGO HERNANDEZ Blue Crater Refractor Auto SP /150 Mint PSA 9LOTTERY
- $20.242023 Bowman Chrome Refractor 1st Diego Hernandez Auto /499 SGC 10 / 10 RoyalsLOTTERY
- $42.042023 Bowman Chrome Prospect Diego Hernandez #CPA-DH PSA 9 MINT Auto qn5NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Diego Hernandez Auto Atomic Refractor 061/100 CPA-DH RoyaNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Chrome Refractor #CPA-DH Diego Hernandez 1st Bowman Auto /499 RoyalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Diego Hernandez 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Yellow Refractor Auto /75 RoyalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Diego Hernandez Chrome Auto 1st #CPA-DH RoyalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 BOWMAN CHROME GREEN /99 1ST PROSPECT AUTO DIEGO HERNANDEZ ROYALSNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Diego Hernandez Chrome Auto 1st #CPA-DH RoyalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Diego Hernandez 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Yellow Refractor Auto /75 RoyalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman - Chrome Prospect Autographs Diego Hernandez #CPA-DH SGC 9.5 Auto10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Chrome Diego Hernandez Refractor Auto /499 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball - Diego Hernandez 1st Auto Gold 39/50! PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $8.002023 Bowman Chrome Refractor #CPA-DH Diego Hernandez 1st Bowman Auto /499 RoyalsPASS
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