Jose Castro
CF · Rookie · 20.0y · #770 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
60 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
8 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 2024 Bowman Chrome JOSE CASTRO 1st Auto…. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Jose Castro scores 60 out of 100 (#770 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: speed: plus-plus — 112 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 98% 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
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.
Speed: plus-plus
112 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 98% at his level.
Premium position
CF — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Power: plus-plus
.224 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 93% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
Big power for his level (93th percentile); elite speed (98th percentile).
OPS improving
.833 last season to 1.040 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: 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-JCO — 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.
2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-JCO
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
Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, Base at $8.90 — 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
8 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 8 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 2 are under "The whole live market".
2024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Jose Castro #CPA-JCO 1st Auto
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 57d
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.
$8.90
modeled ~$21.50
LOTTERY
2024 1st Bowman Chrome Jose Castro Prospect Auto SGC 9.5 #CPA-JCO
base · SGC 9.5 · takes offers · listed 19d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$46.02
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
Jose Castro 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto Blue Refractor /150 Yankees
/150 · raw · condition not stated · listed 10d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$86.00
modeled ~$72.28
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2024 Bowman Chrome JOSE CASTRO Orange Lava Refractor 1st AUTO 8/25 Yankees
/25 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 473d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$355.75
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2024 Bowman Chrome JOSE CASTRO 1st Auto Gold Shimmer Refractor /50 Yankees 🔥
/50 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 10d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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modeled ~$217.50
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Jose Castro #CPA-JCO 1st Auto
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 68d
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.
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modeled ~$21.50
NEEDS EVIDENCE
Your research
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Your target
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder3 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 $8.90, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $8.90 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $86.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $86.00 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +866%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Orange Lava Refractor /25 and underTHIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $355.75, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $355.75 live
- Scarcity
- 25 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +314%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
1 listing sits 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 59 on the 20–80 scale, against 1087 hitters at Rookie
What he is good at
skills overall 59 / 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?
47
average · better than 39% at his level
24.1% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
65
plus-plus · better than 93% at his level
.224 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 67% at his level
18.1% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
71
plus-plus · better than 98% at his level
112 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
68
plus-plus · better than 96% at his level · the result, not a skill
1.040 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?
46
below average · better than 34% 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 74th percentile of the cohort, production at the 96th — his results run further ahead of his tools than 83% of the players he is measured against.
The stat line is doing the selling and the skills underneath it are not carrying it. Pay for the line and you are paying for the part that does not repeat.
How this is read: his skills average 74 and his production sits at 96, a gap of -22. 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 17th percentile.
Will he get there?
Long shot 4.7 / 10
- hitting well — 1.040 OPS in 166 PA (not ranked against his level)
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 82% of what it wants to know — missing readiness.
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
166
AVG
.328
OBP
.488
SLG
.552
OPS
1.040
better than 96%
HR
7
SB
31
BB%
18.1
K%
24.1
Is this player getting better?
Hitting better than last season — .833 up to 1.040 OPS.
Still at Rookie, the same level as last season.
OPS
.833▲1.040
Power
.206▲.224
Walks
15.2%▲18.1%
Strikeouts
21.0%▲24.1%
Last season, 138 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 market8 listed · 8 eBay-verified · 2 not shown above
- Listings
- 8
- Lowest seen
- $8.90
- Median ask
- $66.01
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $8.90
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $86.00
8 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 2 cards
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