Way back in January 2020 — just before COVID disrupted all of us — we reported on the sale of an ungraded 2019 Bowman Chrome signed Superfractor card of Adley Rutschman for a shocking price: $23,088 on 94 bids.
It was a 1-of-1 card, so that helps account for the hefty figure. Even so, it was a jaw-dropping sale because Rutschman had exactly 130 at-bats in the low minor leagues at that point.
As we know, Rutschman was and is deemed a can’t-miss prospect. A 6-foot-2, 216-pound switch-hitting catcher, he starred at Oregon State from 2017-19 by hitting .352 with 28 HRs in 644 at-bats. After graduation that summer, he got his feet wet with three Baltimore Orioles farm teams but batted a pedestrian .254 with only three homers. However, he did make a splash for
