Deal Sniper

Robert Arias

CF · Hill City Howlers · Low-A · 19.0y · #109 of 7,922 we rate

The player
STRONG PROSPECT

79 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

11 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 Robert Arias 1st Bowman Chrome 2024 RC Base…. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Strong prospect, untested market.

Robert Arias scores 79 out of 100 (#109 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 97% of the players there.

We have 1 confirmed sale of his cards in the last 90 days, but no standardized benchmark card yet, so the price side rests on whatever is listed rather than on one comparable series.

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: thin comp evidence — 1 confirmed sale in 90 days. Treat any value here as a single data point, not a price.

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +2.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 97% of the players there.

  • Speed: plus-plus

    66 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 93% at his level.

  • The case is strengthening

    Baseball momentum 69/100 — ahead of the thesis. Read from his baseball alone — never from what his cards did.

  • Moved up and held it

    Rookie to Low-A.

  • Premium position

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

  • Contact: plus

    14.2% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 91% at his level.

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

  • Thin comp evidence

    1 confirmed sale in 90 days. Treat any value here as a single data point, not a price.

  • 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-RA — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

No price on this card yet

sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 3 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-RA

Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto

The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 3 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

11 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 11 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 5 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Robert Arias Auto #CPA-RA

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 11d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data staleLast confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $31.95

    modeled ~$39.99

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias Gold Shimmer 1st Auto Last Print 50/50 Guardians

    /50 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 93d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $306.20

    modeled ~$320.00

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias Auto Reptilian Refractor 1st Bowman /150 PSA 10

    /150 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 179d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $307.00

    no sold price

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

  • ROBERT ARIAS 2024 BOWMAN CHROME HTA CHOICE 1ST ROOKIE AUTO /150 PSA 10 Low Pop

    /150 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 123d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $346.00

    no sold price

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias 1st Prospect Gold Mini Diamond Auto /50 PSA 9

    /50 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 117d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $349.99

    no sold price

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

  • Robert Arias 1st Bowman Chrome 2024 RC Base Auto Guardians Prospect

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 10d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    Data staleLast confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    modeled ~$39.99

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

Your research

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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 $31.95, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
  • Speckle Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    1 listing watched off the board here, none confirmed sold — no price to judge.

    Sold
    Live
    nothing listed
    Scarcity
    299 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
  • Gold Shimmer /50THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $306.20, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    Scarcity
    50 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

6 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 61 on the 20–80 scale, against 530 hitters at Low-A

What he is good at

skills overall 61 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 530 hitters at Low-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?

    63

    plus · better than 91% at his level

    14.2% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    57

    above average · better than 75% at his level

    .171 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    57

    above average · better than 75% at his level

    15.3% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    65

    plus-plus · better than 93% at his level

    66 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    61

    plus · better than 86% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .859 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?

    69

    plus-plus · better than 97% 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 84th percentile of the cohort, production at the 86th — 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 84 and his production sits at 86, a gap of -2. 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 529 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 46th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 5.8 / 10

  • hitting well — 0.859 OPS in 190 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 100% of what it wants to know.

How he is playingThe Low-A line, and how it compares with last season

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 530 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

190

AVG

.291

OBP

.397

SLG

.462

OPS

.859

better than 86%

HR

5

SB

21

BB%

15.3

K%

14.2

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .791 to .859 after moving up to Low-A. That is the shape of a breakout.

Moved up from Rookie to Low-A — the pitching is harder this year.

OPS

.791.859

Power

.115.171

Walks

14.6%15.3%

Strikeouts

11.1%14.2%

Last season, 198 times at bat. Two seasons that already happened. Nothing here is a prediction.

What his cards have sold for1 logged sale

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.

Only 1 sale logged so far. 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
  • 2026-08-26$125.00 plus $1.25 shipping · /299 · tracked disappearance — not a confirmed sale proof
The whole live market11 listed · 11 eBay-verified · 5 not shown above
Listings
11

11 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$31.95
Median ask
$307.00
Cheapest 1st auto
$31.95
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$306.20

Latest eBay verification: 12 hours ago.

The other 5 cards

  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias Green Lava Refractor 1ST RC AUTO /99 PSA 10 📈🔥NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias 1st Bowman Auto Guardians Prospect AutographNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • Topps 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias 1st Bowman Prospect Auto PSA 10 #CPARANEEDS EVIDENCE
  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Robert Arias 1st Prospect Gold Mini Diamond Auto /50 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • 🔥 2024 Bowman Chrome ROBERT ARIAS #CPA-RA 1st Bowman Auto Gold Shimmer/50 🔥NEEDS EVIDENCE

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