Paulino Santana
CF · Low-A · 19.0y · #225 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
73 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
12 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 Paulino Santana 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st…. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Paulino Santana scores 73 out of 100 (#225 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.
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
Young for the level
+2.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 97% of the players there.
Power: above average
.173 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 76% 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.
Plate discipline: above average
13.8% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 64% 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
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.
What the hobby pays for him
A benchmark is the one standardized card we track a player's market on, so every player's price means the same thing.
Benchmark not yet established — candidates seen, none corroborated by enough sellers. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
The card that matters
A card-quality answer, not a price one. It does not change when a seller changes their mind.
Canonical card not established — We have not assigned him a benchmark card yet, so there is no canonical answer to give. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
Best value right now
Where the money would go today, which is frequently a lesser card than the one above — or nowhere.
No good entry today
The closest to fair is Paulino Santana 2024 Bowman Chrome #CPA-PS 1st Bowman Auto Rangers Prospect at $41, 447% over the $6.99–7.50 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.
That card at or under $6.99 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.
What would make this a buy
- Waiting on sales
- Player not there yet
What is for sale right now
12 cards of his are listed, 1 held back on condition or a broken price · 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 Paulino Santana 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Yellow Refractor /75 #CPA-PS Rangers
/75 · raw · condition not stated · listed 672d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
$339.99
modeled $13.98–15
PASS
Paulino Santana 2024 1st Bowman Auto Orange Shimmer /25 Au Rc Rangers (CPA-PS)
/25 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 4d
Not a core card · 3 other things 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 $20.97–22.50
PASS
2024 Bowman Chrome Paulino Santana 1st Chrome Refractor Auto/499 #CPA-PS Rangers
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 8d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things 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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sold $6.53
PASS
2024 Bowman Chrome Paulino Santana 1st Prospect Auto #CPA-PS PSA 9 Mint Rangers
base · PSA 9 · listed 55d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$40.50
modeled ~$132.50
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2024 Bowman Chrome Paulino Santana 1st Blue Auto /199 PSA 10 GPA-PS
/199 · PSA 10 · listed 2d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$96.45
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
Paulino Santana 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Green Lava /99 PSA 10 2024
/99 · PSA 10 · listed 2d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$145.89
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
What the same money buys today
Nothing of his is worth buying right now. These live cards from other players are the ones we rate as a buy or a watch at the same budget — not a view on Paulino Santana, just what the money can do today.
- Pedro Ramírezbase$35.94Watch14% under fair value
Compared within $20.25–$42.52, about what his own cheapest card costs. Ranked on the price-blind investment score among the 60 live listings we had scored — a read on what we scanned, not on the whole market.
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 ladder2 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 $41.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $41.00 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Yellow Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $339.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $339.99 live
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +729%
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 54 on the 20–80 scale, against 530 hitters at Low-A
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 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?
50
average · better than 50% at his level
25.4% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
57
above average · better than 76% at his level
.173 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 64% at his level
13.8% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
53
above average · better than 62% at his level
25 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
58
plus · better than 80% at his level · the result, not a skill
.824 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 63th percentile of the cohort, production at the 80th — 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 63 and his production sits at 80, a gap of -17. 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 23th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.7 / 10
- hitting well — 0.824 OPS in 520 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
520
AVG
.266
OBP
.385
SLG
.439
OPS
.824
better than 80%
HR
14
SB
22
BB%
13.8
K%
25.4
Is this player getting better?
Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .751 to .824 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
.751▲.824
Power
.147▲.173
Walks
8.8%▲13.8%
Strikeouts
27.2%▼25.4%
Last season, 239 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 market12 listed · 12 eBay-verified · 5 not shown above
- Listings
- 12
- Lowest live
- $40.50
- Median ask
- $121.17
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $40.50
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $96.45
12 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 5 cards
- $281.982024 Bowman CHROME 1st Paulino Santana AUTO ROOKIE SPECKLE REF /299 PSA 10 RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Paulino Santana 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospects Auto 💥PSA 9 💥RangersNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2024 Bowman Chrome Paulino Santana 1st Speckle Refr. Auto (RC) Rangers PSA 9🌶️NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $41.00Paulino Santana 2024 Bowman Chrome #CPA-PS 1st Bowman Auto Rangers ProspectPASS
- —Topps 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Auto Rookie Paulino Santana CPA-PSPASS
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
- What a modeled fair value means — at least one value on this page was modeled rather than taken from a sale
- 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