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Emil Morales

SS · High-A · 19.0y · #7 of 7,922 we rate

The player
ELITE PROFILE

90 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

25 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 for a better price

Closest of his is 2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales 1st Bowman… at $90.50. Needs a $34 drop.

Our take

Elite prospect, untested market.

Emil Morales scores 90 out of 100 (#7 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +4.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 99% of the players there.

His core Bowman card has been selling at $62–99 off 3 confirmed sales.

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

  • Young for the level

    +4.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 99% of the players there.

  • Power: plus-plus

    .256 ISO — isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases Better than 93% at his level.

  • The case is strengthening

    Baseball momentum 83/100 — ahead of the thesis. Read from his baseball alone — never from what his cards did.

  • Moved up and held it

    Rookie to High-A.

  • Premium position

    SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.

  • Plate discipline: above average

    13.3% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 66% 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

  • 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: 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-EM — raw, base, unnumbered.

Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.

$62.10–99midpoint $71.00

Confirmed· 3 salesmost recent 2026-08-24 · 3 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.

2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-EM

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.

No good entry today

The closest to fair is 2024 Bowman Chrome - Prospect 1st Auto Emil Morales #CPA-EM Dodgers PSA 10 at $356, 42% over the $250 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.

That card at or under $250 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.

What would make this a buy

  • Needs a $34 drop
  • 2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales 1st Bowman… at or under $56.80 delivered.
  • On his best-priced card: not a core card.

What is for sale right now

25 cards of his are listed, 1 held back on condition or a broken price · 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".

  • PSA 10 - 2025 Bowman Chrome Mega Box EMIL MORALES Orange #/25 Refractor Auto

    /25 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 3d

    Not a core card · 2 other things in the way

    Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman

    $666.53

    modeled $750

    WATCH

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  • 2024 BOWMAN CHROME PROSPECT 1ST AUTO GREEN LAVA EMIL MORALES 31/99 PSA 10

    /99 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 10d

    Evidence still thin · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $794.83

    modeled $450

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  • PSA 10 2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales Speckle Refractor Auto /299 - 1st Bowman

    /299 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 3d

    Evidence still thin · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 51h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $666.53

    modeled $313

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  • 2024 1st Bowman Chrome AUTO Emil Morales #CPA-EM Refractor /499 PSA 10 Dodgers

    /499 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 4d

    Evidence still thin · 1 other thing in the way

    Data stale — Last confirmed live 60h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.

    $619.98

    modeled $288

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  • 2024 Bowman Chrome - Prospect 1st Auto Emil Morales #CPA-EM Dodgers PSA 10

    base · PSA 10 · listed 80d

    Evidence still thin · 1 other thing in the way

    $355.98

    sold $250

    WATCH

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  • EMIL MORALES 2024 BOWMAN CHROME #CPA-EM GREEN REFRACTOR /99 1ST AUTO

    /99 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 2d

    Evidence still thin · 1 other thing in the way

    —

    modeled $67.07–249

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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 Emil Morales, just what the money can do today.

Compared within $45.25–$95.03, 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.

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The evidence

Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.

The parallel ladder4 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 $90.50, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $90.50 live
    Scarcity
    unnumbered
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    —
  • Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $250.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $250.00 live
    Scarcity
    499 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +176%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Speckle Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $269.64, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $269.64 live
    Scarcity
    299 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +8%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales
  • Sapphire /250THIN EVIDENCE

    Listed at $269.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.

    Sold
    —
    Live
    $269.98 live
    Scarcity
    199 made
    Trades
    no sales
    Premium
    +0%
    Premium from asking prices, not sales

14 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 54 on the 20–80 scale, against 492 hitters at High-A

What he is good at

skills overall 54 / 80

On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 492 hitters at High-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?

    50

    average · better than 49% at his level

    25.4% K

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

  • Power

    Can he hit it hard?

    65

    plus-plus · better than 93% at his level

    .256 ISO

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

  • Plate discipline

    Does he pick his pitch?

    54

    above average · better than 66% at his level

    13.3% BB

    walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him

  • Speed

    Can he run?

    48

    average · better than 43% at his level

    11 SB per 600 PA

    stolen bases per full season of plate appearances

  • Production

    Is it showing up in the box score?

    63

    plus · better than 90% at his level · the result, not a skill

    .909 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?

    73

    plus-plus · better than 99% 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 63th percentile of the cohort, production at the 90th — his results run further ahead of his tools than 90% 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 63 and his production sits at 90, 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 492 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 10th percentile.

Will he get there?

Strong chance 7.1 / 10

  • young for High-A
  • hitting well — 0.909 OPS in 323 PA (not ranked against his level)
  • form is climbing

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 High-A line, and how it compares with last season

Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 492 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".

PA

323

AVG

.275

OBP

.378

SLG

.531

OPS

.909

better than 90%

HR

18

SB

6

BB%

13.3

K%

25.4

Is this player getting better?

Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .881 to .909 after moving up to High-A. That is the shape of a breakout.

Moved up from Rookie to High-A — the pitching is harder this year.

OPS

.881▲.909

Power

.198▲.256

Walks

11.5%▲13.3%

Strikeouts

28.3%▼25.4%

Last season, 269 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 market25 listed · 25 eBay-verified · 18 not shown above
Listings
25

25 eBay-verified

Lowest seen
$90.50
Median ask
$355.98
Cheapest 1st auto
$90.50
Cheapest numbered 1st auto
$250.00

Latest eBay verification: 6 hours ago.

The other 18 cards

  • $269.98Emil Morales 2024 Bowman Chrome Sapphire #CSPA-EM 1st RC Auto /199WATCH
  • $269.64Emil Morales Auto /299 Speckle Refractor 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman #CPA-EMWATCH
  • $250.00Emil Morales 2024 Bowman Chrome #CPA-EM Refractor Auto 1st RC /499WATCH
  • —EMIL MORALES - 2024 Bowman Chrome - Refractor 1st Auto /499 #CPA-EM DodgersWATCH
  • —Topps 2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales Prospect Auto Refractor /499 PSA 10WATCH
  • —Topps 2024 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Emil Morales Dodgers Auto /199 #CSPA-EM PSA 10WATCH
  • —2025 Bowman Chrome Refractor EMIL MORALES AUTO /499 LA Dodgers Last Sold $50PASS
  • $361.99EMIL MORALES signed auto autographed 2024 1st Bowman Pink Refractor /199 PSA 10PASS
  • $232.98Emil Morales 2024 Bowman Chrome Prospects Refractor Auto /499 #CPA-EM PSA 9 MINTPASS
  • $281.982024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Emil Morales Speckle Refractor Rookie RC Auto /299PASS
  • $852.31Emil Morales 1st Bowman Auto PSA10PASS
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales Auto Blue Raywave Refractor 1st #/150 PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales #CPA-EM Green Lava Refractor Auto /99 PSA 9 1stNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome - Emil Morales Auto /150 HTA Mojo PSA 9 #CPA-EM 1st DodgersNEEDS EVIDENCE
  • —Topps 2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales Prospect Auto HTA Choice /150 PSA 9NEEDS EVIDENCE
  • $90.502024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales 1st Bowman Auto #CPA-EM Dodgers AutographPASS
  • —2024 Bowman Chrome Emil Morales 1st Bowman Auto #CPA-EM Dodgers AutographPASS
  • —2024 Topps Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Emil Morales Auto #CPA-EM DodgersPASS
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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