I want to get out ahead of it and say I think Gleyber Torres is a very good player. I think he’ll be a good player for a long time too. Sometimes though, there are underlining numbers that we should look at before proclaiming a player to be a superstar and an excellent investment. I

15. There are 15 rows on Fangraphs for Austin Meadows’ statistics through the Minor Leagues before making his debut. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check this out. To see how another 2013 draftee high school hitter progressed, check out Clint Frazier. Fangraphs assigns a row to a player for each team/level they

The MLB and MiLB seasons are well underway, but we still have the start of a season to look forward to. Of course, I am talking about Rookie league ball that starts up in June after the draft. While using Rookie ball stats to predict future success is an iffy procedure, I do believe it’s

Over the last week, there have been multiple prospects called up to debut in the big leagues (Keston Hiura, Austin Riley, Brendan Rodgers, and Nicky Lopez). This hasn’t been happening only over the last week, but the entire season. Since the beginning of the season, there has been double digit plus top 100 prospects to

Closing out the week of Bregman with some Topps Flagship. Since Bregman has a ton of rookies (appearing in Series 1 first), it makes it incredibly difficult to actually pick which is the best to invest in. Do you go the paper route with Series 1? Chrome route with Topps Chrome? Update route with his

Next up are the Heritage Bregman cards! Due to his base rookie being a dual with Gurriel, it limits the amount of cards that can be viewed as premium investments. The dual rookies *could* be investments, but the value is marginal compared to what it could be without Gurriel. Of course, items like the blue

A new week means a new Rookie Report! This week is all about the Houston Astros blossoming superstar, Alex Bregman. Alex Bregman had a monster breakout season last year hitting for 31 home runs, 103 RBIs, and a .286 average all while walking 13.6% of the time and only striking out 12.1% of the time.

At what point when investing does a players lack of power out-weigh his positive contributions in every other facet of the game? How willing are you to bet on his power playing up and/or gaining more power as he matures? These are questions that we need to ask ourselves when investing in players like Milwaukee

Today is all about the Update (& Chrome). One thing to note when researching (or buying) Lindor rookies is he doesn’t have a Base Topps Chrome Update rookie. His only TCU rookie is the Rookie Debut, but by now we all know those should be avoided. The Lindor Base PSA 10 has been between $35-$65

Today’s highlight is of his Heritage rookies. In a past article, I discussed his base Heritage PSA 10 RC being one to stash away longterm, and that still holds today. Of course, there are more than just the base rookie. Highlighted in the post is the Base, Action, Blue Ink auto, and Red Ink auto;