Darren Baker
2B · Charlotte Knights · Triple-A · 27.0y · #4886 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- LONG SHOT
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
30 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
13 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
Long-shot prospect, untested market.
Darren Baker scores 30 out of 100 (#4886 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: speed: plus-plus — 47 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 94% at his level.
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 — 38 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
The signal
Power: below average
.088 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
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.
Speed: plus-plus
47 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 94% at his level.
Premium position
2B — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Contact: plus
13.2% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball Better than 89% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
Elite speed (94th percentile); 27.0 is old for a prospect card.
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
38 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
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: 2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 3 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.
2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 3 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, /99 at $11.99 costs 1.57× base, and print run alone suggests 1.80×, 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
- 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
13 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 13 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 7 are under "The whole live market".
2022 Bowman Chrome Darren Baker 1st Auto Orange Refractor /25 PSA 10 Nationals
/25 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 723d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
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no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 1st Bowman Chrome Darren Baker Prospect Gold Refractor Auto #/50 Nationals
/50 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1112d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
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modeled ~$18.99
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 Bowman Chrome Darren Baker 1st Auto Gold Shimmer PSA 10 ** Call Up **
Gold Shimmer · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 725d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$275.00
modeled ~$170.05
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 Bowman Chrome Darren Baker 1st Auto True Gold PSA 10 PoP 4
True Gold · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 921d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$355.00
modeled ~$170.05
NEEDS EVIDENCE
2022 Bowman Chrome 1st - Darren Baker #CPA-DB Nationals - Green Shimmer AUTO /99
/99 · raw · condition not stated · listed 96d
Past the window · 2 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.
$11.99
no sold price
LOTTERY
2022 Bowman Chrome 1st Darren Baker Auto Speckle Refractor #147/299 Psa 9 Rare
/299 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 4d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$30.99
no sold price
NEEDS EVIDENCE
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 $7.66, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $7.66 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- True GoldTHIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $255.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $255.00 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +3229%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $105.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $105.99 live
- Scarcity
- 100 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -58%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Green Shimmer /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $11.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $11.99 live
- Scarcity
- 99 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -89%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $57.57, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $57.57 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +380%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
5 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 55 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 55 / 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?
62
plus · better than 89% at his level
13.2% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
42
below average · better than 22% at his level
.088 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
49
average · better than 48% at his level
10.5% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
66
plus-plus · better than 94% at his level
47 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
40
well below · better than 17% at his level · the result, not a skill
.583 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?
48
average · better than 44% at his level · context, not a skill
-1.0y 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 63th percentile of the cohort, production at the 17th — his tools run further ahead of his results than 99% 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 63 and his production sits at 17, a gap of +46. 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 99th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.3 / 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 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
38
AVG
.206
OBP
.289
SLG
.294
OPS
.583
better than 17%
HR
0
SB
3
BB%
10.5
K%
13.2
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 market13 listed · 13 eBay-verified · 7 not shown above
- Listings
- 13
- Lowest seen
- $7.66
- Median ask
- $81.78
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $7.66
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $11.99
13 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 7 cards
- $105.99Darren Baker 2022 Bowman Chrome Auto 1st Refractor Atomic #/100 NationalsNEEDS EVIDENCE
- $7.66DARREN BAKER 2022 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST Signed AUTO WASHINGTON NATIONALS BCP-131LOTTERY
- $57.572022 Bowman Chrome Prospect Gold Refractor 16/50 Darren Baker #CPA-DB Auto 15r3NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2022 Bowman - Chrome Prospect 1st Auto Darren Baker #CPA-DB (AU, RC)NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —DARREN BAKER 2022 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST Signed AUTO WASHINGTON NATIONALS BP-131NEEDS EVIDENCE
- $255.002022 Bowman Chrome Darren Baker 1st Auto True Gold **Call Up**NEEDS EVIDENCE
- —2022 Bowman Chrome Darren Baker 1st Auto Orange Refractor /25 PSA 9 NationalsPASS
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