Christian Encarnacion-Strand
3B · Norfolk Tides · Triple-A · 26.0y · #2063 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
49 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
26 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
We can't see what this costs all in, so there's nothing to judge yet.
Our take
Fringe prospect, untested market.
Christian Encarnacion-Strand scores 49 out of 100 (#2063 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: power: plus — .278 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 91% at his level.
His core Bowman card has been selling at $6–9 off 1 confirmed sale.
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: swing-and-miss — contact grades 40 on the 20–80 scale (30.6% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
The signal
Plate discipline: well below
4.7% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
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.
Power: plus
.278 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 91% at his level.
Premium position
3B — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
What the hobby pays up for
Big power for his level (91th percentile); 3B is a position the hobby pays up for.
OPS improving
.803 last season to .848 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
Swing-and-miss
Contact grades 40 on the 20–80 scale (30.6% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
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.
Benchmark not checklist-verified
His core card was identified from how raw base 1st bowman chrome auto sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.
What the hobby pays for him
Benchmark card: 2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CDA-CE — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
$5.63–9.38midpoint $7.50
Evidence limited· 1 salemost recent 2026-08-24 · 2 listed now
- 7 days
- not enough sales
- 30 days
- not enough sales
- 90 days
- not enough sales
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.
2021 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CDA-CE
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 2 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.
No good entry today
The closest to fair is 2021 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Christian Encarnacion-Strand #CDA-CE Auto v9t at $39.17, 422% over the $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 $7.50 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.
What would make this a buy
- On his best-priced card: past the window.
- A promotion, or a stretch that lifts the season line, would move the player side of this.
What is for sale right now
26 cards of his are listed, 1 held back on condition or a broken price · 0 of the 25 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 19 are under "The whole live market".
2024 Bowman Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand RC Auto SGC 10/10 Gem Mint
base · SGC 10 · takes offers · listed 2d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$34.99
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2024 Bowman Chrome Rookie Auto Christian Encarnacion-Strand Orioles /499 PSA 9
/499 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 10d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$35.00
modeled ~$43.64
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2021 Bowman Draft - Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Auto PSA 9 Orioles
base · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 15d
Past the window · 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.
$35.99
modeled ~$30.99
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2021 Bowman Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Prospect Auto PSA 9 Mint
base · PSA 9 · listed 26d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$40.98
modeled ~$30.99
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2021 Bowman Draft Christian Encarnacion-Strand Chrome DP 1st Auto #CDA-CE PSA 10
base · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 14d
Past the window · 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.
$50.99
modeled ~$85.25
NEEDS EVIDENCE
Christian Encarnacion Strand 2021 1st Bowman Draft Auto #CDACE - PSA 10 Gem Mint
base · PSA 10 · listed 2d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 57h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$65.98
modeled ~$85.25
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 Christian Encarnacion-Strand, just what the money can do today.
- Cole CarriggRefractor$14.98Watch42% under fair value
Compared within $10.47–$21.99, 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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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 $20.94, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $20.94 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Red Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $354.90, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $354.90 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +1595%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $21.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $21.50 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -94%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $307.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $307.99 live
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +1333%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $95.95, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $95.95 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -69%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
15 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 47 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 47 / 80
On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 728 hitters at Triple-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?
40
well below · better than 17% at his level
30.6% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
63
plus · better than 91% at his level
.278 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
37
well below · better than 10% at his level
4.7% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
46
below average · better than 34% at his level
4 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
56
above average · better than 74% at his level · the result, not a skill
.848 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?
52
average · better than 59% 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 38th percentile of the cohort, production at the 74th — his results run further ahead of his tools than 95% 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 38 and his production sits at 74, a gap of -36. 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 726 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 5th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 6.1 / 10
- already at Triple-A
- old for Triple-A
- hitting well — 0.848 OPS in 297 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 Triple-A line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 728 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
297
AVG
.266
OBP
.304
SLG
.544
OPS
.848
better than 74%
HR
19
SB
2
BB%
4.7
K%
30.6
Is this player getting better?
Hitting better than last season — .803 up to .848 OPS.
Still at Triple-A, the same level as last season.
OPS
.803▲.848
Power
.248▲.278
Walks
6.7%▼4.7%
Strikeouts
24.6%▲30.6%
Last season, 252 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 market26 listed · 26 eBay-verified · 19 not shown above
- Listings
- 26
- Lowest live
- $20.94
- Median ask
- $45.99
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $20.94
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $21.50
26 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 6 hours ago.
The other 19 cards
- $85.24Christian Encarnacion-Strand 2021 Bowman Draft 1st Ref On-Card Auto /499 PSA 9 NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $149.192021 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Christian Encarnacion-Strand PSA 10 Auto 17wcNEEDS EVIDENCE
- $304.982021 1st Bowman Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand Auto Purple /250 PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2021 Christian Encarnacion Strand Bowman Chrome Aqua Lava /199 Auto 1st PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2024 Bowman - Chrome Rookie Auto Christian Encarnacion-Strand /499 PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2021 Bowman Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Refractor Auto /499 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Christian Encarnacion Strand POP 1 2021 Bowman 1st Chrome Refractor Auto PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2021 Bowman Draft Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Prospect Auto SGC 9.5 Auto 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Christian Encarnacion-Strand Bowman Chrome Draft 1st Auto Blue Wave /150 - PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $21.502021 Bowman Draft CHRISTIAN ENCARNACION-STRAND Chrome 1st REFRACTOR AUTO /499 RCLOTTERY
- $354.90Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Refractor /499 CDA-CE REDSPASS
- $354.90Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Refractor /499 CDA-CE REDSPASS
- $20.94Christian Encarnacion-Strand 2021 Bowman 1st Bowman Chrome Prospect Auto #CDA-CELOTTERY
- —CHRISTIAN ENCARNACION-STRAND 2021 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST #CDA-CE AUTOPASS
- $95.952024 Bowman Chrome Christian Encarnacion-Strand Gold Refractor Auto 6/50 RC O'sPASS
- $30.492021 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Christian Encarnacion-Strand #CDA-CE Auto v9tPASS
- $39.162021 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Christian Encarnacion-Strand #CDA-CE Auto yj0PASS
- $39.172021 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Christian Encarnacion-Strand #CDA-CE Auto v9tPASS
- $307.992021 Bowman Draft Christian Encarnacion-Strand Auto 1st RC Black /75PASS
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