Kayson Cunningham
SS · Hillsboro Hops · Hillsboro Hops · High-A · 20.0y · #678 of 7,942 we rate
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- The player
- SOLID
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait for a better price
66 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
30 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 2025 Bowman Chrome Draft Kayson Cunningham…. Priced above value.
Our take
Solid prospect, untested market.
Kayson Cunningham scores 66 out of 100 (#678 of the 7,942 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +2.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 94% of the players there.
His core Bowman card has been selling at $18–27 off 2 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: thin comp evidence — 2 confirmed sales in 90 days. Treat any value here as a single data point, not a price.
The signal
Young for the level
+2.0y vs his level at High-A — younger than 94% of the players there.
Speed: plus
42 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 82% at his level.
Moved up and held it
Low-A to High-A, though the prior season is a thin sample.
Premium position
SS — the bat does not have to carry the whole profile.
Plate discipline: above average
14.6% BB — walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him Better than 75% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
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
Thin comp evidence
2 confirmed sales 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 draft chrome auto sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.
What the hobby pays for him
Benchmark card: 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto CPA-KC — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 3 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
$18.45–26.95midpoint $20.50
Evidence limited· 2 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.
2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto CPA-KC
Raw base 1st Bowman Draft Chrome Auto
The draft-class equivalent of the canonical auto — same card kind, other product line. 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 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC Auto 1k9t at $109, 433% over the $20.50–24.50 that copies of it have confirmed sold in. Nothing of his is currently below its own sold band.
That card at or under $20.50 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: waiting on sales.
What is for sale right now
30 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 30 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 24 are under "The whole live market".
Topps 2025 Bowman Draft Night Chrome Kayson Cunningham Rookie Auto #BDN-2
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 27d
Not a core card · 2 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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sold $20.50–24.50
PASS · 92% under
KAYSON CUNNINGHAM 2025 BOWMAN CHROME DRAFT SAPPHIRE GREEN 1ST AUTO /99 B Q4920
/99 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 4d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 63h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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modeled $19.93–67.91
PASS
2025 Bowman Chrome Draft 1st Blue Refractor KAYSON CUNNINGHAM Auto /150
/150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 204d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
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sold $169
PASS
2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Kayson Cunningham Auto Aqua Lava Refractor #/199 1st RC
/199 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 0d
Evidence still thin · 2 other things in the way
$133.99
modeled $14.94–50.94
PASS
2025 Bowman Draft - Chrome Kayson Cunningham Gold Shimmer Auto /50 Dual PSA 9/9
/50 · PSA 9 · takes offers · listed 4d
Not a core card · 2 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$406.94
modeled ~$37.00
WATCH
Kayson Cunningham 2025 Bowman Draft Chrome Blue Wave Refractor Auto /150 PSA 10
/150 · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 10d
Not a core card · 2 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$456.50
no sold price
WATCH
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 Kayson Cunningham, just what the money can do today.
- Luke AdamsRefractor · /499$49.99Watch
- Pedro Ramírezbase$35.94Watch14% under fair value
- Christian MooreRefractor · /499$45.94Watch
Compared within $31.95–$67.08, 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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Your notes
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder8 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 $63.89, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $63.89 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $68.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $68.00 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +6%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Aqua Lava Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $133.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $133.99 live
- Scarcity
- 199 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +97%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $89.99, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $89.99 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -33%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue Wave /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $256.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $256.00 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +185%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Sparkle Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $306.24, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $306.24 live
- Scarcity
- 71 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +20%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Shimmer /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $286.49, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $286.49 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -6%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Wave Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
1 listing watched off the board here, none confirmed sold — no price to judge.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- nothing listed
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
1 sale and 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 495 hitters at High-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 495 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?
54
above average · better than 64% at his level
22.7% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
51
average · better than 53% at his level
.139 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
57
above average · better than 75% at his level
14.6% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
59
plus · better than 82% at his level
42 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
.746 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?
66
plus-plus · better than 94% 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 69th 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 69 and his production sits at 60, a gap of +9. 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 495 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 62th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.4 / 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 High-A line, and how it compares with last season
Hover any stat to see what it means. How each compares with the 495 other hitters at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
PA
260
AVG
.245
OBP
.362
SLG
.384
OPS
.746
better than 60%
HR
4
SB
18
BB%
14.6
K%
22.7
Is this player getting better?
Hitting better than last season even though the pitching got harder — .585 to .746 after moving up to High-A. That is the shape of a breakout — but last season was a small sample, so go easy on it.
Moved up from Low-A to High-A — the pitching is harder this year.
OPS
.585▲.746
Power
.022▲.139
Walks
5.8%▲14.6%
Strikeouts
28.8%▼22.7%
Last season, 52 times at bat — a small enough sample that these gaps might just be luck. Two seasons that already happened. Nothing here is a prediction.
What his cards have sold for2 logged sales
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.
Point at a dot to see that sale.
The whole live market30 listed · 0 eBay-verified · 24 not shown above
- Listings
- 30
- Lowest seen
- $63.89
- Median ask
- $121.66
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $133.99
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $133.99
0 eBay-verified
The other 24 cards
- —2025 Bowman 1st Chrome Draft Kayson Cunningham Orange Auto /25 PSA 9; DBacks #1WATCH
- —Kayson Cunningham 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto Chrome Purple Refractor /250 PSA 10WATCH
- —2025 1st Bowman Chrome Kayson Cunningham Purple RC Refractor /250 PSA 10 AutoWATCH
- —KAYSON CUNNINGHAM 2025 BOWMAN DRAFT #CPA-KC REFRACTOR /499 1ST PROSPECT AUTOPASS
- $68.002025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Auto Kayson Cunningham Refractor /499 #CPA-KCPASS
- $256.002025 Bowman Draft | Kayson Cunningham | 1st Bowman Blue Wave Auto /150 #CPA-KCPASS
- $306.24Kayson Cunningham 2025 Bowman Draft 1st Auto Sparkle Refractor /71 #CPA-KCPASS
- —2025 Bowman 1st Kayson Cunningham RC Auto /50 #CPA-KCPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC 1st Bowman Auto MOJO /150PASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC 1st Bowman Auto HTA MOJO /150PASS
- $89.992025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Auto Kayson Cunningham Purple /250 #CPA-KCPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft- Chrome Prospect Autographs Kayson Cunningham Auto Purple /250PASS
- $97.002025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Auto Kayson Cunningham Purple /250 #CPA-KCPASS
- —Kayson Cunningham 1st Bowman RC Auto CPA-KC D'BacksPASS
- $286.492025 Kayson Cunningham 1st Bowman Auto GOLD Shimmer /50 DBACKS PASS
- —2025 BOWMAN DRAFT KAYSON CUNNINGHAM 1ST BOWMAN AQUA LAVA AUTO /199PASS
- $63.892025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC Auto 19ygPASS
- $74.822025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC Auto 2a5PASS
- $109.322025 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Kayson Cunningham #CPA-KC Auto 1k9tPASS
- —2025 Bowman Chrome Draft Kayson Cunningham 1ST ROOKIE ON CARD AUTO DIAMONDBACKSPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Kayson Cunningham 1st Bowman Auto Arizona DiamondbacksPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Kayson Cunningham Auto CPA-KCPASS
- —Kayson Cunningham 2025 Topps Bowman Draft Chrome Auto 1st #CPA-KC DiamondbacksPASS
- —2025 Bowman Draft Kayson Cunningham Chrome Auto 1st #CPA-KC DiamondbacksPASS
Worth reading for this player
- Grading break-even calculator — his cards have sold graded, so the raw-versus-graded gap is a real decision here
- 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