Christian Franklin
CF · Rochester Red Wings · Triple-A · 26.0y · #3380 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
41 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
19 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
Nobody has logged a completed sale for this card, so we can't say what it's worth.
Our take
Fringe prospect, untested market.
Christian Franklin scores 41 out of 100 (#3380 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: plate discipline: plus — 15.3% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 85% at his level.
His core Bowman card has been selling at $6–10 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: 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
Power: below average
.111 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
OPS slipping
.817 last season to .735 this one.
Power slipping
.155 last season to .111 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.
Plate discipline: plus
15.3% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 85% at his level.
Premium position
CF — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
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.
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: 2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-CF — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 5 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
$6–10midpoint $8.00
Evidence limited· 1 salemost recent 2026-08-23 · 6 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.
2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-CF
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 5 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 2022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Blue RayWave Refractor Christian Franklin Auto 19jf at $28.82, 260% over the $8 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.
That card at or under $8 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
19 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 19 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 13 are under "The whole live market".
2022 Bowman 1st Chrome Autograph Auto Christian Franklin #CPA-CF (AU, RC)
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 166d
Past the window · 3 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 56h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
—
sold $8
PASS
Christian Franklin Graded Rookie Auto - 2022 1st Bowman Chrome #CPA-CF - SGC 10
base · SGC 10 · listed 25d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$34.99
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 Bowman Chrome Christian Franklin 34/299 Speckle Refractor 1st Auto SGC 9.5
/299 · SGC 9.5 · takes offers · listed 11d
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.
$65.99
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 1st Bowman Chrome YELLOW RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Rookie! Autograph /75
/75 · raw · condition not stated · listed 1d
Past the window · 3 other things in the way
$56.00
modeled $7.20–28
PASS
2022 1st Bowman Chrome GREEN RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Rookie! Autograph /99
/99 · raw · condition not stated · listed 1d
Past the window · 3 other things in the way
$42.00
modeled $6.48–25.20
PASS
2022 1st Bowman Chrome BLUE Mojo RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Autograph /150
/150 · raw · condition not stated · listed 1d
Past the window · 3 other things in the way
$35.00
modeled $5.40–21
PASS
Your research
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder8 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 $10.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $10.50 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Blue RayWave RefractorTHIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $28.82, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $28.82 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +175%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $17.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $17.50 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -39%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $17.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $17.50 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- 0%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $45.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $45.50 live
- Scarcity
- 100 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +160%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue Mojo /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $35.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $35.00 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -23%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Green /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $42.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $42.00 live
- Scarcity
- 99 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +20%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Yellow /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $56.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $56.00 live
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +33%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
2 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 52 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 52 / 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?
46
below average · better than 36% at his level
25.1% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
45
below average · better than 30% at his level
.111 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
60
plus · better than 85% at his level
15.3% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
56
above average · better than 74% at his level
24 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
49
average · better than 46% at his level · the result, not a skill
.735 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 56th percentile of the cohort, production at the 46th — 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 56 and his production sits at 46, a gap of +10. 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 63th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.5 / 10
- already at Triple-A
- old for 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
426
AVG
.249
OBP
.375
SLG
.360
OPS
.735
better than 46%
HR
6
SB
17
BB%
15.3
K%
25.1
Is this player getting better?
Down from .817 to .735 OPS this season.
Still at Triple-A, the same level as last season.
OPS
.817▼.735
Power
.155▼.111
Walks
15.0%→15.3%
Strikeouts
20.6%▲25.1%
Last season, 535 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 market19 listed · 19 eBay-verified · 13 not shown above
- Listings
- 19
- Lowest live
- $10.50
- Median ask
- $28.82
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $10.50
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $17.50
19 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 7 hours ago.
The other 13 cards
- $45.502022 1st Bowman Chrome ATOMIC RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Rookie! Autograph /100PASS
- —2022 Bowman Chrome Christian Franklin 1st Auto Atomic Refractor /100 Cubs CPA-CFPASS
- —2022 1st Bowman Chrome BLUE Mojo RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Autograph /150PASS
- $17.502022 1st Bowman Chrome PURPLE RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Rookie! Autograph /250PASS
- $19.502022 1st Bowman Chrome PURPLE RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Rookie! Autograph /250PASS
- —2022 Bowman Chrome Christian Franklin #CPA-CF 1st Chrome Prospect AutoPASS
- $17.502022 1st Bowman Chrome REFRACTOR RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Autograph /499PASS
- $19.502022 1st Bowman Chrome REFRACTOR RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Autograph /499PASS
- $10.502022 1st Bowman Chrome RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Orioles! Rookie! Autograph!PASS
- $11.702022 1st Bowman Chrome RC AUTO Christian Franklin! Orioles! Rookie! Autograph!PASS
- —2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto - CHRISTIAN FRANKLIN - #CPA-CF CubsPASS
- —2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto - CHRISTIAN FRANKLIN - #CPA-CF Cubs, Orioles 🔥PASS
- $28.822022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Blue RayWave Refractor Christian Franklin Auto 19jfPASS
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