Ed Howard
SS · Triple-A · 24.0y · #4716 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- LONG SHOT
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
31 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.
Closest of his is 2020 Bowman Chrome Draft Ed Howard 1st Auto…. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Long-shot prospect, untested market.
Ed Howard scores 31 out of 100 (#4716 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: small sample — 33 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
The signal
Young for the level
+2.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 87% of the players there.
Contact: bottom of the scale
45.5% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
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.
Premium position
SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
What the hobby pays up for
Little power for his level (10th percentile); SS is a position the hobby pays up for.
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
Small sample
33 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
Swing-and-miss
Contact grades 32 on the 20–80 scale (45.5% 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.
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 Draft 1st Auto — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 2 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 Draft 1st Auto
Raw base 1st Bowman Draft Chrome Auto
The draft-class equivalent of the canonical auto — same card kind, other product line. 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.
Insufficient market evidence
Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, /299 at $12.72 costs 1.06× base, and print run alone suggests 1.25×, with no measured sales to check it against — best balance available. That is a comparison of sellers, not evidence of what these are worth, and it rests on the print-run assumption rather than measured premiums.
What would make this a buy
- Waiting on sales
- Player not there yet
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".
2020 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Auto 1st Ed Howard #CDA-EH Auto
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 387d
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.
$12.00
modeled ~$8.89
LOTTERY
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Speckle Refractor /299 Ed Howard #CPA-EHO Auto 15r3
/299 · raw · condition not stated · listed 4d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$12.72
modeled ~$10.50
LOTTERY
Ed Howard Auto Signed 2020 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Bowman #BD-98 Chicago Cubs
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1031d
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.
$14.24
modeled ~$8.89
LOTTERY
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Refractor 193/499 Ed Howard #CPA-EHO Auto 0h9e
/499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 4d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$19.62
modeled ~$12.50
LOTTERY
2020 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Ed Howard #CDA-EH Auto 15r3
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 2d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$19.62
modeled ~$8.89
LOTTERY
2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto Refractor /499 Ed Howard #CPA-EHO Auto PSA 9
/499 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 90d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$21.24
modeled ~$41.99
LOTTERY
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder7 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 $12.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $12.00 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $19.62, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $19.62 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +64%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Speckle Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $12.72, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $12.72 live
- Scarcity
- 299 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -35%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $142.79, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $142.79 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +1023%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Green Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $42.62, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $42.62 live
- Scarcity
- 99 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -70%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $61.87, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $61.87 live
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +45%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Sapphire Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $46.07, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $46.07 live
- Scarcity
- 99 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -26%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
9 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 37 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 37 / 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?
32
bottom of the scale · better than 4% at his level
45.5% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
37
well below · better than 10% at his level
.031 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
35
well below · better than 7% at his level
3.0% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
44
below average · better than 29% at his level
0 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
34
bottom of the scale · better than 5% at his level · the result, not a skill
.308 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 13th percentile of the cohort, production at the 5th — 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 13 and his production sits at 5, a gap of +8. 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 59th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 6.3 / 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 86% of what it wants to know — missing production.
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
33
AVG
.125
OBP
.152
SLG
.156
OPS
.308
better than 5%
HR
0
SB
0
BB%
3.0
K%
45.5
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 seen
- $12.00
- Median ask
- $35.43
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $12.00
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $142.79
19 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 13 cards
- $29.392020 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Ed Howard #CDA-EH PSA 10 GEM MT Auto 0q21NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $34.572020 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Picks Ed Howard #CDA-EH Auto 8p8NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $36.292020 Bowman Draft Chrome Picks Green Refractor /99 Ed Howard PSA 9 Auto 0vd2NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $41.00ED HOWARD (PSA 10) 2021 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Mojo Refractor AUTONEEDS EVIDENCE
- $41.992020 Bowman Draft Chrome Picks Refractor 401/499 Ed Howard PSA 9 MINT Auto 14dhNEEDS EVIDENCE
- $42.032021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Purple Refractor Ed Howard SGC 10 GEM Auto 0c54NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $42.622021 Bowman Chrome Prospects Green Refractor 82/99 Ed Howard #CPA-EHO Auto 15r3NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $46.072021 Bowman Sapphire Chrome Prospects Aqua Refractor 87/99 Ed Howard Auto 9hxNEEDS EVIDENCE
- $61.872020 Bowman Draft Chrome Picks Black Refractor /75 Ed Howard #CDA-EH Auto 3hdNEEDS EVIDENCE
- $142.792020 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Ed Howard Purple Refractor RC Auto 178/250 CDA-EHNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2020 Bowman Chrome Draft Ed Howard 1st Auto #BD-98 BGS Authentic 10 SignatureNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2020 Bowman First Chrome Auto Ed Howard Sparkle Refractor /71 PSA 9 #CDA-EHNEEDS EVIDENCE
- —Ed Howard Signed 2020 Bowman Chrome Draft #BD98 RC (BGS | Auto Grade 10) RookieNEEDS 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.
Worth reading for this player
- 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