Deal Sniper

Héctor Rodríguez

RF · Louisville Bats · Triple-A · 22.0y · #41 of 7,922 we rate

The player
STRONG PROSPECT

84 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

24 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 Hector Rodriguez 2023 Bowman Chrome… at $100,006. Waiting on sales.

Our take

Strong prospect, untested market.

Héctor Rodríguez scores 84 out of 100 (#41 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +4.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 98% 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

    +4.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 98% of the players there.

  • Plate discipline: below average

    9.2% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Power: plus

    .259 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 88% 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

    Double-A to Triple-A.

  • Bat-first profile

    RF — there is no defensive value to fall back on, so the bat has to play.

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.

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 — no 1st Bowman vehicle observed for this player. 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.

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

24 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 24 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 18 are under "The whole live market".

  • 2023 Bowman Chrome Hector Rodriguez 1st Yellow Auto /75 Cincinnati Reds RC

    /75 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 18d

    Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way

    $299.99

    modeled $62

    PASS

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  • 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Hector Rodriguez #CPA-HRO True Blue Refractor Auto # /150

    /150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 13d

    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.

    $199.97

    modeled $46.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman 1st Chrome BLUE CRATER Auto /150 Reds RC🔥Autograph

    /150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 66d

    Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way

    $255.99

    modeled $46.50

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • Hector Rodriguez 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto 1/250 Purple Bookend Topps Reds

    /250 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 12d

    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.

    $199.99

    modeled $40.30

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Speckle Refractor AUTO /299 Hector Rodriguez #CPA-HRO

    /299 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 10d

    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.

    $135.98

    modeled $38.75

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

  • 🔥 Hector Rodriguez Bowman Chrome 1st Auto /499 Sparkle Gem Mint 10 /10 🔥

    /499 · raw · takes offers · listed 17d

    Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way

    $350.00

    modeled $35.65

    PASS

    eBayBreakdown

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 Héctor Rodríguez, just what the money can do today.

Compared within $53.25–$111.83, 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 ladder6 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.

  • Sparkle /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $350.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $350.00 live
    Scarcity
    499 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • Speckle Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $106.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $106.50 live
    Scarcity
    299 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -70%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Purple /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $199.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $199.99 live
    Scarcity
    250 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +88%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Blue /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $255.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $255.99 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +28%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • True Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $199.97, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $199.97 live
    Scarcity
    150 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    -22%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Yellow /99THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $299.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $299.99 live
    Scarcity
    75 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +50%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

11 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?

    53

    above average · better than 63% at his level

    20.4% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    62

    plus · better than 88% at his level

    .259 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    46

    below average · better than 35% at his level

    9.2% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    48

    average · better than 42% at his level

    8 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 78% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .880 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?

    71

    plus-plus · better than 98% at his level · context, not a skill

    +4.0y 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 78th — his results run further ahead of his tools than 82% 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 57 and his production sits at 78, a gap of -21. 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 18th percentile.

Will he get there?

Strong chance 8.3 / 10

  • already at Triple-A
  • young for Triple-A
  • hitting well — 0.880 OPS in 455 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

455

AVG

.274

OBP

.347

SLG

.533

OPS

.880

better than 78%

HR

27

SB

6

BB%

9.2

K%

20.4

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .838 to .880 after moving up to Triple-A. That is the shape of a breakout.

Moved up from Double-A to Triple-A — the pitching is harder this year.

OPS

.838▲.880

Power

.183▲.259

Walks

8.1%▲9.2%

Strikeouts

13.9%▲20.4%

Last season, 345 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 market24 listed · 24 eBay-verified · 18 not shown above
Listings
24

24 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$106.50
Median ask
$297.99
Cheapest 1st auto
$135.98
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$135.98

Latest eBay verification: 6 hours ago.

The other 18 cards

  • —Topps 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st #CPA-HRO Hector Rodriguez Auto RedsPASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome Prospect Auto Hector Rodriguez #CPA-HRO Yellow Refractor /75 PASS
  • —2023 1st Bowman Chrome Hector Rodriguez Auto Blue Lunar CraterRefractor #/150PASS
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome HECTOR RODRIGUEZ Prospect Auto Purple Refractor /250 Reds HOTPASS
  • $106.502023 Bowman Chrome Prospects Hector Rodriguez Speckle Refractor Auto /299 RedsPASS
  • $255.99HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman 1st Edition PURPLE AUTO /250 RARE😱Gold Stamp😱RC📈PASS
  • $295.98HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman 1st REFRACTOR AUTO /499 💎PSA 10💎Reds RC AutographNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $304.742023 Bowman Chrome HECTOR RODRIGUEZ RC AUTO PURPLE REFRACTOR /250 PSA 10 1STNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $355.99Hector Rodriguez 2023 Bowman Refractor Chrome 1st RC Auto 191/499 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $385.98HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman 1st Chrome BLUE CRATER Auto /150 Reds RC 💎PSA 10💎NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $504.99HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 1ST 2023 BOWMAN CHROME GREEN REFRACTOR AUTO #/99 RC PSA 10 REDSNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $100006.00Hector Rodriguez 2023 Bowman Chrome SuperFractor 1st RC Auto 1/1 BGS 9.5/10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • — 2023 Bowman Chrome Hector Rodriguez Purple Refractor 1st Auto /250 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto-Speckle /299 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2023 Bowman Hector Rodriguez Chrome Auto Refractor 1st #/499 Reds PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2023 Hector Rodriguez Bowman Chrome 1st Auto Refractor /499 PSA 10 RedsNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 2023 Bowman Chrome Sapphire #BCP-95 Orange Auto /50 PSA 10NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2023 Bowman Chrome 1st Hector Rodriguez Auto /99 Cincinnati Reds CPA-KHPASS
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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