Edgar Montero
SS · Low-A · 19.0y · #695 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Expensive
- What to do
- Wait for a better price
62 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
His best /50 asks $305, over the $95 that card has sold in.
Closest of his is 2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman…. Priced above value.
Our take
Solid prospect, expensive market.
Edgar Montero scores 62 out of 100 (#695 of the 7,922 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 97% of the players there.
His core Bowman card has been selling at $8–13 off 8 confirmed sales.
The thing most likely to be wrong here: swing-and-miss — contact grades 40 on the 20–80 scale (35.4% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
The signal
Young for the level
+2.0y vs his level at Low-A — younger than 97% of the players there.
Contact: well below
35.4% K — strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
OPS slipping
1.064 last season to .732 this one.
Power slipping
.267 last season to .150 this one.
Plate discipline: plus
16.0% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 80% at his level.
Moved up and held it
Rookie to Low-A.
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
Swing-and-miss
Contact grades 40 on the 20–80 scale (35.4% K). strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Thin comp evidence
1 confirmed sale in 90 days. Treat any value here as a single data point, not a price.
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.
Asks above the sold band
Every live card of his we can price is asking more than these have actually sold for, so today's entry is at a premium.
What the hobby pays for him
Benchmark card: 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-EM — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 19 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
$7.50–12.50midpoint $9.59
Confirmed· 8 salesmost recent 2026-08-26 · 19 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.
2026 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 19 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 2026 Topps Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Edgar Montero 1st Gold Auto #50/50 CPA-EM at $305, 222% over the $95 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.
/50 at or under $95 delivered would be at the bottom of what it has actually sold for.
What would make this a buy
- Priced above value
- Player not there yet
- On his best-priced card: evidence still thin.
What is for sale right now
42 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 42 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 36 are under "The whole live market".
2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman Auto #CPA-EM Athletics Prospect
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 92d
Priced above value · 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.
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sold $7.50–12.50
PASS
2026 Bowman - EDGAR MONTERO - Chrome Prospect Auto 1st Athletics A’s
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 88d
Priced above value · 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.
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sold $7.50–12.50
PASS
2026 Topps Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman AUTO Athletics Baseball MLB
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 96d
Priced above value · 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.
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sold $7.50–12.50
PASS
2026 Bowman Chrome EDGAR MONTERO 1st Sunflower Seeds Auto /5 Athletics
/5 · raw · condition not stated · listed 17d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 57h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$461.96
modeled $13.50–52.50
PASS
Edgar Montero 2026 1st Bowman Auto Orange Sapphire /25 Athletics #6 Prospect Rc
/25 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 17d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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modeled $13.50–52.50
PASS
EDGAR MONTERO 2026 BOWMAN CHROME 1ST ORANGE SHIMMER REFRACTOR AUTO /25 Q3967
/25 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 95d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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modeled $13.50–52.50
PASS
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 Edgar Montero, just what the money can do today.
- Walker Jenkinsbase$67.98Watch
- Luke AdamsHTA Choice Refractor · /150$74.96Watch
- Rainiel Rodriguezbase$69.99Watch44% under fair value
Compared within $37.99–$79.78, 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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Your target
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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
1 listing watched off the board here, none confirmed sold — no price to judge.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- nothing listed
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $145.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $145.00 live
- Scarcity
- 89 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- True Yellow /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $75.98, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $75.98 live
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -48%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $305.49, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $305.49 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +302%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - /5 and underTHIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $461.96, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $461.96 live
- Scarcity
- 5 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +51%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
What he is good atSkills 51 on the 20–80 scale, against 530 hitters at Low-A
What he is good at
skills overall 51 / 80
On the 20–80 scale every scouting report uses: 50 is average, and every 10 points is one standard deviation. Measured against 530 hitters at Low-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?
40
well below · better than 15% at his level
35.4% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
55
above average · better than 68% at his level
.150 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
58
plus · better than 80% at his level
16.0% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
49
average · better than 45% at his level
13 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
53
above average · better than 60% at his level · the result, not a skill
.732 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?
69
plus-plus · better than 97% 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 52th percentile of the cohort, production at the 60th — 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 52 and his production sits at 60, 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 529 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 36th percentile.
Will he get there?
Long shot 4.8 / 10
- nothing stands out either way
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 Low-A line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 530 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
401
AVG
.223
OBP
.359
SLG
.373
OPS
.732
better than 60%
HR
11
SB
9
BB%
16.0
K%
35.4
Is this player getting better?
Down from 1.064 to .732 OPS, but he moved up to Low-A — a step back at a harder level is normal.
Moved up from Rookie to Low-A — the pitching is harder this year.
OPS
1.064▼.732
Power
.267▼.150
Walks
24.6%▼16.0%
Strikeouts
22.1%▲35.4%
Last season, 244 times at bat. Two seasons that already happened. Nothing here is a prediction.
What his cards have sold for1 logged sale
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.
Only 1 sale logged so far. 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.
- 2026-08-26 — $14.99 plus $1.00 shipping · tracked disappearance — not a confirmed sale proof
The whole live market42 listed · 42 eBay-verified · 36 not shown above
- Listings
- 42
- Lowest seen
- $75.98
- Median ask
- $225.25
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $75.98
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $75.98
42 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 13 hours ago.
The other 36 cards
- $305.492026 Topps Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman Edgar Montero 1st Gold Auto #50/50 CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Edgar Montero Logofractor Auto /35PASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Prospect Edgar Montero True Gold 1st Auto /50 A’sPASS
- $75.98Edgar Montero 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CPA-EM True Yellow /75 A’sPASS
- —2026 Bowman 1st Chrome Edgar Montero Auto #CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman - EDGAR MONTERO - Chrome Prospect Auto 1st Athletics A’sPASS
- $145.002026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero Bowman 1st Pack Fractor Auto /89PASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Edgar Montero Green Reptilian Auto /99PASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman Green Lava Auto #CPA-EM 10/99PASS
- —Edgar Montero Auto /89 Pack Fractor 🔥 - 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Bowman AthleticsPASS
- —Edgar Montero 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Blue Xfractor Auto #/150PASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman Mojo Auto /150 RC AthleticsPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman /150 Auto True Blue Refractor CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Edgar Montero Green Reptilian Refractor Auto /99 A'sPASS
- —EDGAR MONTERO 2026 BOWMAN CHROME BLUE SAPPHIRE 1ST RC AUTO /199 Athletics A’sPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero Auto Purple Prism Refractor /199 1st RC SPPASS
- —2025 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero Burgundy Mojo Auto /275 1stPASS
- —2026 Topps Bowman 1st EDGAR MONTERO Yellow X-fractor auto #/75 ATHLETICS PASS
- —2026 1st Bowman Edgar Montero /25 Orange Wave AutoPASS
- —2026 Bowman Edgar Montero Speckle Refractor 1st Bowman Auto /299 AthleticsPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman AUTO Athletics #CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman 1st Chrome Edgar Montero Auto #CPA-EMPASS
- —Topps Bowman 2026 Edgar Montero Athletics 1st Chrome Prospect Auto #CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman EDGAR MONTERO 1st RC Auto Chrome Base Oakland Athletics #CPA-EMPASS
- —Edgar Montero 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto #CPA-EM AthleticsPASS
- —Edgar Montero 2026 Bowman 1st Prospect Auto Athletics Chrome RCPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman AUTO Athletics #CPA-EM 🔥PASS
- —2026 Bowman Edgar Montero Chrome Auto Autograph 1st Prospect #CPA-EM AthleticsPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero AUTO Athletics 1st Bowman CPA-EM Oakland A’s RCPASS
- —2026 Bowman Edgar Montero Chrome Auto Autograph 1st Prospect #CPA-EM AthleticsPASS
- —2026 Bowman Edgar Montero 1st Chrome Prospect Auto #CPA-EM Athletics (RC, AU)PASS
- —2026 Edgar Montero 1st Bowman AutoPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome - Edgar Montero 1st Bowman Auto #CPA-EMPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman Auto #CPA-EM Athletics ProspectPASS
- —2026 Bowman Chrome Edgar Montero 1st Bowman AUTO Athletics #CPA-EMPASS
- —Edgar Montero 2026 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto Mini-Diamond /100 Athletics PASS
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