Matt Shaw
RF · Triple-A · 24.0y · #2103 of 7,922 we rate
- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Wait
49 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
25 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 2023 Bowman Draft - Chrome Prospect Auto… at $230. Waiting on sales.
Our take
Fringe prospect, untested market.
Matt Shaw scores 49 out of 100 (#2103 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.
We have 1 confirmed sale of his cards in the last 90 days, but no standardized benchmark card yet, so the price side rests on whatever is listed rather than on one comparable series.
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 — 27 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.
Power: below average
.084 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: above average
22 SB per 600 PA — stolen bases per full season of plate appearances Better than 72% at his level.
Bat-first profile
RF — there is no defensive value to fall back on, so the bat has to play.
What the hobby pays up for
Little power for his level (20th percentile); 24.0 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
27 PA this season — too few to read a rate stat off with any confidence.
Corner-only profile
RF carries no defensive fallback — if the bat does not play, there is no version of this that works.
Thin comp evidence
1 confirmed sale in 90 days. Treat any value here as a single data point, not a price.
Modeled value only
The fair values shown for his live cards are arithmetic from related evidence, not confirmed sales of the exact card.
What the hobby pays for him
A benchmark is the one standardized card we track a player's market on, so every player's price means the same thing.
Benchmark not yet established — no 1st Bowman vehicle observed for this player. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
The card that matters
A card-quality answer, not a price one. It does not change when a seller changes their mind.
Canonical card not established — We have not assigned him a benchmark card yet, so there is no canonical answer to give. Until one exists, only his individual listings can be judged.
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, Base at $55.98 — the numbered ones cost more than they are worth, on print run alone. 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
25 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 25 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 19 are under "The whole live market".
Matt Shaw Signed 1st Bowman Chrome Refractor Auto Chicago Cubs Rookie Card RC
Refractor · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 7d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 86h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$55.98
modeled ~$8.50
WATCH
Matt Shaw 2023 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Auto #CDA-MA PSA 10 GM CHI SP GEM MINT RC
base · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 13d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 86h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$105.99
modeled ~$127.50
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2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Matt Shaw #CDA-MS PSA 9 MINT Auto 01ic
base · PSA 9 · listed 5d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$117.94
modeled ~$35.99
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2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Matt Shaw #CDA-MS PSA 10 GEM MT Auto qx6
base · PSA 10 · listed 4d
Not a core card · 2 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$197.59
modeled ~$124.50
WATCH
2023 Bowman Draft - Chrome Prospect Auto Matt Shaw 1st - Blue Refractor PSA 10
Blue Refractor · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 6d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 86h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$230.17
modeled ~$124.50
WATCH
Matt Shaw Signed 2023 1st Bowman Chrome Aqua Wave PSA 10 Auto Chicago Cubs POP 1
Aqua Wave · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 122d
Waiting on sales · 1 other thing in the way
$279.99
modeled ~$124.50
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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 Matt Shaw, just what the money can do today.
- Luke AdamsRefractor · /499$49.99Watch
- Christian MooreRefractor · /499$45.94Watch
- Charles McAdoo/150$45.16Watch47% under fair value
Compared within $27.99–$58.78, 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.
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The evidence
Everything the reading above is built on. Open whichever part you want to check.
The parallel ladder2 versions of his cards in sgc 9.5 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 SGC 9.5 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.
- Sapphire Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $304.94, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $304.94 live
- Scarcity
- 199 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
1 listing watched off the board here, none confirmed sold — no price to judge.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- nothing listed
- Scarcity
- 75 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
24 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 50 on the 20–80 scale, against 728 hitters at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 50 / 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?
51
average · better than 53% at his level
22.2% K
strikeout rate, inverted — lower means more bat-to-ball
Power
Can he hit it hard?
42
below average · better than 20% at his level
.084 ISO
isolated power — slugging minus batting average, so hits that go for extra bases
Plate discipline
Does he pick his pitch?
51
average · better than 54% at his level
11.1% BB
walk rate — higher means he makes pitchers come to him
Speed
Can he run?
56
above average · better than 72% at his level
22 SB per 600 PA
stolen bases per full season of plate appearances
Production
Is it showing up in the box score?
55
above average · better than 68% at his level · the result, not a skill
.824 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 50th percentile of the cohort, production at the 68th — 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 50 and his production sits at 68, a gap of -18. 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 21th 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
27
AVG
.333
OBP
.407
SLG
.417
OPS
.824
better than 68%
HR
0
SB
1
BB%
11.1
K%
22.2
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 — $129.98 plus $0.00 shipping · /75 · graded SGC 9.5 · tracked disappearance — not a confirmed sale proof
The whole live market25 listed · 25 eBay-verified · 19 not shown above
- Listings
- 25
- Lowest seen
- $55.98
- Median ask
- $302.96
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $55.98
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $255.99
25 eBay-verified
Latest eBay verification: 15 hours ago.
The other 19 cards
- $280.98MATT SHAW - 2023 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Image Variation Refractor #/99, AutoWATCH
- $304.93#61/99 Matt Shaw Auto 1st Bowman Chrome Draft Green Refractor Autograph PSA 9WATCH
- $304.94#82/99 Matt Shaw Auto 1st Bowman Chrome Draft Green Refractor Autograph PSA 9WATCH
- $304.94SGC 9.5 #/199 Matt Shaw Auto 1st Bowman Chrome Sapphire Blue Refractor AutographWATCH
- $305.172023 Bowman Draft Matt Shaw 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Aqua Lava /199 PSA 10WATCH
- $330.452023 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Matt Shaw 1st Green Refractor Auto /99 Chicago CubsWATCH
- $336.75Matt Shaw 2023 1st Bowman Chrome Gold Sapphire /50 Signed Auto Autograph #33 PSAWATCH
- $357.982023 BOWMAN DRAFT CHROME SAPPHIRE MATT SHAW 1ST GOLD AUTO /50 PSA 9 PROSPECTWATCH
- $476.092025 Bowman Chrome Relics Orange Refractor 1/25 Matt Shaw Rookie Auto RC 0y2qWATCH
- $3406.992025 Bowman Chrome Mega Box Matt Shaw Rookie Auto Rose Gold Refractor 1/1 PSA 10WATCH
- —2023 Bowman Draft Matt Shaw Chrome Auto Refractor 1st #/499 Cubs SGC 10/10WATCH
- —2023 Matt Shaw Bowman Draft Sapphire Auto Green Refractor /99 1st PSA 9 Cubs WATCH
- —MATT SHAW - 2023 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Image Variation Refractor #/99, AutoWATCH
- —PSA 10 Matt Shaw 2023 Bowman Draft Chrome 1st Auto RC #CDA-MS - Gem MintWATCH
- —Topps 2023 Bowman Draft Matt Shaw #CDA-MS Chrome Prospect Auto RC PSA 9WATCH
- —2023 Bowman Draft Matt Shaw 1st Bowman Aqua Lava 064/199 Auto PSA 9⚡️WATCH
- —2024 Bowman Chrome Matt Shaw Glad Auto Gold Mini Dmnd. Refractor SGC Auto 10WATCH
- $255.992023 Bowman Chrome Matt Shaw 1st Auto Blue Wave /150PASS
- $300.992023 Bowman Chrome Matt Shaw 1st Auto Green Lava /99PASS
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
- 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
- Raw vs graded Bowman cards — his sales include graded copies alongside raw ones