Sam Carlson
SP · Sugar Land Space Cowboys · Sugar Land Space Cowboys · Triple-A · 27.0y · #1888 of 7,942 we rate
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- The player
- FRINGE
- The market
- Untested
- What to do
- Watch
53 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.
Nobody has logged a completed sale for this card, so we can't say what it's worth.
Our take
Fringe prospect, untested market.
Sam Carlson scores 53 out of 100 (#1888 of the 7,942 we score), and the case rests on one thing: command: plus — 19.4% K-BB — strikeouts minus walks — the gap that survives a promotion Better than 83% at his level.
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
The case is fading
Baseball momentum 33/100 — the on-field case is fading. Read from his baseball alone — never from what his cards did.
Command: plus
19.4% K-BB — strikeouts minus walks — the gap that survives a promotion Better than 83% at his level.
Stuff: plus
28.7% K — strikeout rate per batter faced — never per nine innings, which flatters a pitcher who allows more baserunners Better than 80% at his level.
What the hobby pays up for
SP sells at a discount at equal production; 27.0 is old for a prospect card.
K-BB% improving
15.4% last season to 19.4% this one.
Call-up is close
Readiness 83/100 — the promotion is the single biggest price event in 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.
Benchmark not checklist-verified
His core card was identified from how sellers describe it, not from a checklist. The identity is likely, not established.
What the hobby pays for him
Benchmark card: 2017 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CDA-SC — raw, base, unnumbered.
Described by 2 independent sellers — observed, not checklist-verified.
No price on this card yet
sales exist for this player, none on the benchmark card 2 copies are listed right now — asking prices are supply, never evidence of what it sells for.
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.
2017 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto CDA-SC
Raw base 1st Bowman Chrome Auto
The canonical prospect vehicle — every player who has one is compared on it. Identified from 2 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.
Insufficient market evidence
Nothing of his has confirmed sold, so there is no value to measure against. Among the asks alone, Base at $3.39 — 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
- 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
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".
SAM CARLSON 2017 BOWMAN CHROME BLUE REFRACTOR 1ST RC AUTO 145/150 #CDA-SC
/150 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 441d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 107h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
$13.99
modeled ~$3.99
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2017 Bowman Chrome SAM CARLSON Green Refractor Auto /99 Auto Bgs 9.5/10
/99 · BGS 9.5 · listed 442d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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no sold price
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2017 Bowman Chrome Prospects SAM CARLSON 1st Refractor Rookie Auto /499 Mariners
/499 · raw · condition not stated · takes offers · listed 1145d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
Data stale — Last confirmed live 107h ago — beyond the 48h bar. Needs a re-sight before the analysis is current.
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modeled ~$10.12
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2017 Bowman Draft Chrome Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Superfractor Auto 1/1 BGS 9.5/10
1/1 · BGS 9.5 · takes offers · listed 395d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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no sold price
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2017 Bowman Chrome Draft Sam Carlson Draft Picks ON CARD AUTO PSA 10 GEM MINT
base · PSA 10 · takes offers · listed 15d
Not a core card · 3 other things in the way
Identity uncertain — whether this is a true 1st Bowman
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modeled ~$24.00
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2017 Bowman Chrome AUTO ROOKIE 1st Sam Carlson RC #CDA-SC Mariners Card (f3)
base · raw · condition not stated · listed 317d
Past the window · 2 other things in the way
$3.39
modeled ~$4.01
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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
Listed at $3.39, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $3.39 live
- Scarcity
- unnumbered
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- —
- Refractor /499THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $7.54, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $7.54 live
- Scarcity
- 499 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +122%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Purple Refractor /250THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $26.22, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $26.22 live
- Scarcity
- 250 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +248%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Blue Refractor /150THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $10.07, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $10.07 live
- Scarcity
- 150 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- -62%
Premium from asking prices, not sales - Gold Wave Refractor /50THIN EVIDENCE
Listed at $40.32, but nothing confirmed has sold on this rung.
- Sold
- —
- Live
- $40.32 live
- Scarcity
- 50 made
- Trades
- no sales
- Premium
- +300%
Premium from asking prices, not sales
6 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 58 on the 20–80 scale, against 907 pitchers at Triple-A
What he is good at
skills overall 58 / 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?
58
plus · better than 80% at his level
28.7% K
strikeout rate per batter faced — never per nine innings, which flatters a pitcher who allows more baserunners
Command
Bats missed AND strikes thrown?
60
plus · better than 83% at his level
19.4% K-BB
strikeouts minus walks — the gap that survives a promotion
Control
Does he give away bases?
55
above average · better than 69% at his level
9.3% BB
walk rate, inverted — lower is better from the mound
Run prevention
Do the runs stay off the board?
59
plus · better than 81% at his level · the result, not a skill
1.18 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?
54
above average · better than 65% at his level · context, not a skill
36.1 IP
innings carried — a starter's bulk is worth what a reliever's is not
Age for the level
Is he doing it young?
50
average · better than 49% 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 77th percentile of the cohort, run prevention at the 81th — 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 77 and his run prevention sits at 81, a gap of -4. 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 41th percentile.
Will he get there?
Real chance 5.5 / 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 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 907 other pitchers at his level is graded in "What he is good at".
BF
150
IP
36.1
ERA
3.47
WHIP
1.18
K-BB%
19.4
better than 83%
K%
28.7
BB%
9.3
HR9
0.99
GS
0
Is this player getting better?
Missing more bats and walking fewer batters than last season — 15.4% up to 19.4% K-BB.
Still at Triple-A, the same level as last season.
K-BB%
15.4%▲19.4%
Strikeouts
28.6%→28.7%
Walks
13.2%▼9.3%
WHIP
1.54▼1.18
ERA
4.22▼3.47
Last season, 273 batters faced. 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 market30 listed · 0 eBay-verified · 24 not shown above
- Listings
- 30
- Lowest live
- $3.39
- Median ask
- $7.98
- Cheapest 1st auto
- $3.39
- Cheapest numbered 1st auto
- $13.99
0 eBay-verified
The other 24 cards
- $3.99Sam Carlson 2017 1st Bowman Chrome AUTO Prospect AUTOGRAPH Mariners Draft P74WATCH
- $4.502017 Bowman Chrome Sam Carlson 1st Bowman Auto #CDA-SCWATCH
- $4.752017 Bowman Draft SAM CARLSON "CHROME 1ST BOWMAN" Autograph Prospect Auto CDA-SCWATCH
- $40.322017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Gold Wave Refractor 25/50 Sam Carlson Auto 8k4WATCH
- $17.442017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC BGS 9.5 GEM MINT AutoWATCH
- $27.042017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC BGS 9.5 GEM MINT Auto 0a2WATCH
- $10.072017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Blue Refractor /150 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 0p10WATCH
- $10.132017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Blue Refractor /150 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 00c9WATCH
- $23.072017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Blue Refractor /150 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 08jkWATCH
- $26.222017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Purple Refractor /250 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto nu7WATCH
- $15.002017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Blue Wave Refractor Sam Carlson BGS 9 MINT AutoWATCH
- $7.542017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor 415/499 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto z5mWATCH
- $7.832017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor 322/499 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 8k4WATCH
- $10.122017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor 313/499 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 1o5WATCH
- $11.272017 Bowman Draft Chrome Pick Refractor 447/499 Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 4o1WATCH
- $7.432017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 8k4WATCH
- $7.512017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 0sp7WATCH
- $7.512017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 0sp7WATCH
- $7.522017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 4l3WATCH
- $7.522017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 4l3WATCH
- $7.542017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 1bf5WATCH
- $7.822017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 0l44WATCH
- $8.122017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto yo7WATCH
- $8.122017 Bowman Draft Chrome Draft Pick Sam Carlson #CDA-SC Auto 05upWATCH
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