Daniel Espino
SP · Columbus Clippers · Columbus Clippers · Triple-A · 25.0y · #1701 of 7,942 we rate
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- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
55 out of 100 — our all-round score from the season line, his tools against the level, and how young he is for it.
14 cards of his are listed and nothing comparable has verifiably sold, so we will not tell you whether the asks are fair.
Nobody has logged a completed sale for this card, so we can't say what it's worth.
Our take
Fringe prospect, untested market.
Daniel Espino scores 55 out of 100 (#1701 of the 7,942 we score), and the case rests on one thing: young for the level — +1.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 80% of the players there.
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: pitcher — injury risk is materially higher and the resale market is smaller, which is why the strategy caps what share of a book pitchers can take.
The signal
Young for the level
+1.0y vs his level at Triple-A — younger than 80% of the players there.
Control: below average
14.3% BB — walk rate, inverted — lower is better from the mound
K-BB% slipping
20.0% last season to 16.9% this one.
Stuff: plus
31.2% K — strikeout rate per batter faced — never per nine innings, which flatters a pitcher who allows more baserunners Better than 87% at his level.
Command: above average
16.9% K-BB — strikeouts minus walks — the gap that survives a promotion Better than 76% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
SP sells at a discount at equal production; 25.0 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
Pitcher
Injury risk is materially higher and the resale market is smaller, which is why the strategy caps what share of a book pitchers can take.
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.
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 — candidates seen, none corroborated by enough sellers. 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, /71 at $56.00 costs 2.64× base, and print run alone suggests 2.00×, 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
14 cards of his are listed · 0 of the 14 we can judge clear the investment bar. These are the 6 worth looking at, best first; the other 8 are under "The whole live market".
2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect Autograph DANIEL ESPINO 1st Auto #CDA-DE
base · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 7d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 112h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$21.24
modeled ~$5.98
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2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Class of 2019 196/250 Daniel Espino #C19A-DE Auto 1ef4
/250 · raw · condition not stated · listed 9d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$28.82
modeled ~$19.99
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2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Class of 2019 206/250 Daniel Espino #C19A-DE Auto 1dc4
/250 · raw · condition not stated · listed 8d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$29.97
modeled ~$19.99
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2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Class of 2019 50/250 Daniel Espino #C19A-DE Auto s3g
/250 · raw · condition not stated · listed 9d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$34.28
modeled ~$19.99
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2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Class of 2019 52/250 Daniel Espino #C19A-DE Auto s7f
/250 · raw · condition not stated · listed 9d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$44.62
modeled ~$19.99
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2019 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor /499 Daniel Espino #CDA-DE Auto READ 7tr
/499 · raw · condition not stated · listed 7d
Not a core card · 4 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
$51.24
modeled ~$10.50
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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 Daniel Espino, just what the money can do today.
- Cole CarriggRefractor$14.98Watch42% under fair value
Compared within $10.62–$22.30, 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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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 $21.24, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $21.24 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $51.24, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $51.24 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +141%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $28.82, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $28.82 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -44%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $83.72, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $83.72 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +191%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue Wave Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $114.78, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $114.78 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +37%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Green Refractor /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $115.07, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $115.07 live
- Scarcity
- 99 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +0%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Sparkle /99THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $56.00, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $56.00 live
- Scarcity
- 71 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -51%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $125.26, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $125.26 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +124%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
3 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 907 pitchers at Triple-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 907 pitchers at Triple-A — measured against real players at the same level right now — not a scout's projection of what he becomes.
Stuff
Does he miss bats?
61
plus · better than 87% at his level
31.2% K
strikeout rate per batter faced — never per nine innings, which flatters a pitcher who allows more baserunners
Command
Bats missed AND strikes thrown?
57
above average · better than 76% at his level
16.9% K-BB
strikeouts minus walks — the gap that survives a promotion
Control
Does he give away bases?
45
below average · better than 30% at his level
14.3% BB
walk rate, inverted — lower is better from the mound
Run prevention
Do the runs stay off the board?
54
above average · better than 67% at his level · the result, not a skill
1.35 WHIP
walks and hits per inning, inverted — the result, and the defence behind him is in it too
Workload
Is he carrying a starter's innings?
53
above average · better than 63% at his level · context, not a skill
35.2 IP
innings carried — a starter's bulk is worth what a reliever's is not
Age for the level
Is he doing it young?
58
plus · better than 80% 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 3 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 64th percentile of the cohort, run prevention at the 67th — 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 64 and his run prevention sits at 67, a gap of -3. 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 907 players at his level we hold a full profile for, where it lands at the 44th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 6.1 / 10
- already at Triple-A
- old for Triple-A
- pitcher — more of them break down before they arrive
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 76% of what it wants to know — missing production, form.
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 907 other pitchers at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
BF
154
IP
35.2
ERA
3.79
WHIP
1.35
K-BB%
16.9
better than 76%
K%
31.2
BB%
14.3
HR9
1.26
GS
1
Is this player getting better?
Down from 20.0% to 16.9% K-BB this season — but last season was a small sample, so go easy on it.
Still at Triple-A, the same level as last season.
K-BB%
20.0%▼16.9%
Strikeouts
20.0%▲31.2%
Walks
0.0%▲14.3%
WHIP
4.50▼1.35
ERA
40.50▼3.79
Last season, 5 batters faced — 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 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 market14 listed · 0 eBay-verified · 8 not shown above
- Listings
- 14
- Lowest seen
- $21.24
- Median ask
- $56.00
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $21.24
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- —
0 eBay-verified
The other 8 cards
- $83.722019 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Purple Refractor 158/250 Daniel Espino Auto 02l6WATCH
- $92.642019 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Daniel Espino #CDA-DE PSA 9 MINT Auto b7iWATCH
- $114.782019 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Blue Wave Refractor 15/150 Daniel Espino Auto 7trWATCH
- $115.072019 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Green Refractor 5/99 Daniel Espino Auto v9tWATCH
- $116.792019 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor /499 Daniel Espino PSA 9 MINT Auto 3pbWATCH
- $125.262019 Bowman Draft Chrome Class of Gold Refractor 21/50 Daniel Espino Auto 0j81WATCH
- —Daniel Espino 2019 Bowman Draft #CDADE-Chrome Draft Picks Auto PSA 9WATCH
- $56.002019 1st Bowman Draft SPARKLE RC AUTO Daniel Espino! Rookie! Autograph /71WATCH
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