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Thursday, April 25 2019 / Published in Baseball
Finally. The #1 prospect in baseball, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, has gotten called up and will debut tomorrow night (4/26) against the Oakland Athletics. After a 2018 season where Vlad Jr. hit for 29 doubles, 20 home runs, a .381 average, and over a 1.000 OPS all in only 93 games, his 2016 1st Bowman Chrome
Monday, April 22 2019 / Published in Baseball
If anyone has been tracking my Instagram stories closely, you’d notice in the last two weeks there has been a Ronald Acuña 2018 Topps Update US250 PSA 10 revolution going on. People are snagging these up QUICK which is leading to higher demand, thus increasing prices (a few copies sold today for $75). While the
Saturday, April 20 2019 / Published in Baseball
With 2019 Bowman releasing this week, I wanted to talk about one of our favorite prospects on the checklist: Julio Rodriguez. This isn’t a full prospect profile like normal, but more quick notes on him since he is so young, and we don’t know enough about his auto prices. When it comes to exciting young
Thursday, April 18 2019 / Published in Baseball
Ever since I wrote the article on February 8th about the explosion of the Vlad Jr. 1st BC non-auto, I have been tracking all non-autos hardcore waiting to see when it would reverberate through the entire marketplace. In that article, I hit on many of the points I will cover here, but I will expand
Tuesday, April 16 2019 / Published in Baseball
A little bit ago, I received a question on Instagram asking who are the new 1st Bowman prospects in the 2019 Bowman Baseball checklist (releasing on 4/17). When talking about new 1st Bowman prospects, we aren’t talking about autos only here. We’re talking chrome autos, chrome non-autos, and paper non-autos. After hopping on Cardboard Connection,
Monday, April 15 2019 / Published in Baseball
Today marked the first release of the Baseball America Hot Sheet (a list put out each week revealing the top 20 performers of the week chosen by BA analysts). Each year, these are some of the biggest indicators to price increases in cards. Following each Hot Sheet release, be on the look out for each
Saturday, April 13 2019 / Published in Slabstox Latest
With the rapid expansion of our business and presence on social media comes criticism. While I know we can’t please everyone and won’t be able to respond to everyone who criticizes us, I thought now would be a good time to rehash how we continue to carry out the SlabStox mission and a lesson I’ve
Thursday, April 11 2019 / Published in Baseball
One of the easiest ways for a card to increase in value is through sending it off to PSA or BGS and receiving a Gem Mint or Pristine grade on a card. If a Bowman Chrome auto comes back a 9.5 from BGS, you’re looking at your card being worth 1.69 times more than before

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