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Luis Matos

RF · Nashville Sounds · Triple-A · 24.0y · #2130 of 7,922 we rate

The player
FRINGE

48 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

36 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 Luis Matos 2020 Bowman Chrome #CPA-LM Auto… at $6.24. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Fringe prospect, untested market.

Luis Matos scores 48 out of 100 (#2130 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 87% 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: corner-only profile — rF carries no defensive fallback — if the bat does not play, there is no version of this that works.

The signal

  • Young for the level

    +2.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 87% of the players there.

  • Plate discipline: below average

    8.3% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • OPS slipping

    .837 last season to .662 this one.

  • Power slipping

    .217 last season to .121 this one.

  • 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-plus

    10.1% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 94% 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

  • Corner-only profile

    RF carries no defensive fallback — if the bat does not play, there is no version of this that works.

  • 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: 2020 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LM — 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.

2020 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-LM

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

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

36 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 36 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 30 are under "The whole live market".

  • Luis Matos 2020 Bowman Chrome #CPA-LM Auto 1st RC

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 33d

    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.

    $6.24

    modeled ~$8.04

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2020 Bowman Chrome - Luis Matos #CPA-LM 1st Chrome Auto Giants

    base · raw · condition not stated · listed 122d

    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.

    $15.98

    modeled ~$8.04

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

  • Luis Matos San Francisco Giants Auto Signed 2021 1st Bowman Chrome Card ,

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 352d

    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.

    $16.94

    modeled ~$8.04

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

  • Luis Matos San Francisco Giants Auto Signed 2021 1st Bowman Chrome Card *

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 352d

    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.

    $16.94

    modeled ~$8.04

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

  • Luis Matos San Francisco Giants Auto Signed 2021 1st Bowman Chrome Card .

    base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 352d

    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.

    $16.94

    modeled ~$8.04

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2020 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-LM Giants PSA 9

    base · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 108d

    Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way

    $25.50

    modeled ~$44.00

    NEEDS EVIDENCE

    eBayBreakdown

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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 non-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 non-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 $3.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $3.98 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $9.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $9.98 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +151%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • SapphireTHIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $7.74, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $7.74 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -22%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Aqua Lava Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $14.74, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $14.74 live
    Scarcity
    199 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +90%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $11.74, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $11.74 live
    Scarcity
    250 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -20%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

25 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 53 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A

What he is good at

skills overall 53 / 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?

    66

    plus-plus · better than 94% at his level

    10.1% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    46

    below average · better than 36% at his level

    .121 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    44

    below average · better than 27% at his level

    8.3% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    56

    above average · better than 71% at his level

    22 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    45

    below average · better than 30% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .662 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?

    61

    plus · better than 87% 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 57th percentile of the cohort, production at the 30th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 89% of the players he is measured against.

The market prices the stat line, and his is behind what he is doing. That is where a card is cheap for a reason that can change.

How this is read: his skills average 57 and his production sits at 30, a gap of +27. 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 89th percentile.

Will he get there?

Real chance 5.9 / 10

  • already at Triple-A

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

277

AVG

.234

OBP

.307

SLG

.355

OPS

.662

better than 30%

HR

5

SB

10

BB%

8.3

K%

10.1

Is this player getting better?

Down from .837 to .662 OPS this season.

Still at Triple-A, the same level as last season.

OPS

.837▼.662

Power

.217▼.121

Walks

5.0%▲8.3%

Strikeouts

12.6%▼10.1%

Last season, 159 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.

Look up past sales on eBay
The whole live market36 listed · 36 eBay-verified · 30 not shown above
Listings
36

36 eBay-verified

Lowest live
$3.98
Median ask
$16.94
Cheapest 1st auto
$6.24
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$255.00

Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.

The other 30 cards

  • $28.992020 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos 1st Bowman Auto #CPALM PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $30.452020 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Chrome Mojo Luis Matos Auto Autograph #BCMA-LM PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $30.492020 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Prospects Auto PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $31.902024 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Refractor Auto /499 PSA 9 (RC)NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $33.982020 Bowman Chrome Prospect Luis Matos #CPA-LM SGC 9.5 Mint+ Auto 1oq8NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $36.982020 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-LM Giants PSA 10 GEM MINTNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $39.172020 Bowman Chrome Prospect Refractor 334/499 Luis Matos #CPA-LM Auto 0t02NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $43.502024 Bowman Chrome Rookie Auto Luis Matos Blue /150 #CRALM SGC 9.5 Rookie GiantsNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $255.00Luis Matos 2020 1st Bowman Chrome Blue Choice Refractor Auto /150 PSA 10 RookieNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $299.99PSA 10 LUIS MATOS AUTO 1st 2020 Bowman Chrome PURPLE REFRACTOR #/250 RC GEM MINTNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $299.99PSA 10 LUIS MATOS AUTO 1st 2020 Bowman Chrome PURPLE REFRACTOR #/250 RC GEM MINTNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $306.48🔥PSA Mint Luis Matos, Green Refractor RC Auto, 202 1st Bowman Chrome, #/99 🔥NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —LUIS MATOS 2020 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospects Auto RC SP GiantsNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Luis Matos 2020 Bowman Chrome #CPA-LM Auto Rookie 1st RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Luis Matos 2020 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospect Auto Refractor /499 Brewers CPA-LMNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2020 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Auto 1st Prospect #CPA-LM Brewers PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2020 Bowman Chrome 1st Prospect Auto Luis Matos CPA-LM PSA 10 GiantsNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Luis Matos Bowman Chrome Rookie Auto PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2020 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Luis Matos Green Atomic Refractor /99 PSA 10! 🔥NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $14.742021 Bowman Chrome Luis Matos Aqua Lava Refractor /199 1st Bowman Non-Auto RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $11.742021 Bowman Chrome Purple Refractor /250 Luis Matos BDC-5 RC 1st Bowman Non-AutoNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $13.742021 Bowman Chrome Purple Refractor /250 Luis Matos BDC-5 RC 1st Bowman Non-AutoNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $14.742021 Bowman Chrome Purple Refractor /250 Luis Matos 1st Bowman Non-Auto RCNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $3.982021 Bowman Chrome Draft LUIS MATOS 1st non-auto San Francisco GIANTS #BDC-5NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $4.042021 Bowman Draft Chrome Luis Matos #BDC-5 RC 1st Bowman Chrome Non-Auto QTYNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $7.742021 Bowman Draft Chrome Luis Matos SAPPHIRE BDC-5 RC 1st Bowman Non-AutoNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $9.982021 Bowman Draft Chrome LUIS MATOS 1st NON-AUTO REFRACTOR #BDC-5 Giants RC SPNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $16.747 count of 2021 Bowman Draft Chrome Luis Matos #BDC-5 RC (7) 1st Bowman Non-AutoNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2021 1st Bowman Non Auto Draft Chrome Luis Matos San Francisco Giants BDC-5NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2021 Bowman Chrome Draft LUIS MATOS 1st Non-Auto Chrome, GIANTS Rookie #BDC-5NEEDS EVIDENCE
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.

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