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re: That famous Paul Skenes 1-of-1 rookie card has been found
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:13 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:13 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
quote:Do you even time value of money?
at $200 a game per ticket, it's basically a million dollar value.
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Posted on 3/21/25 at 1:06 am to hsfolk
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The famed Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch autographed card sold for $1.11 million early Friday morning, ending with 64 bids in Fanatics Collect’s March Premier auction. The buyer’s identity is not yet known.
The 11-year-old boy from Los Angeles who originally landed the one-of-a-kind Skenes card from a pack of 2024 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards on Christmas morning secured more money off the sale of the card than Skenes will make from his 2025 base salary. The boy will get $925,000 from the sale of the card. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star pitcher and 2024 National League Rookie of Year will only make $875,000 this season, via Spotrac.
Fanatics Collect pledged to donate their portion of the sale to the Los Angeles Fire Department and Red Cross to aid in the recovery from the forest fires from earlier this year in the southern California area.
The Skenes MLB Debut Patch card with a gem mint 10 grade for both card and autograph quality from PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator) carries a price tag of nearly 10 times higher than the most expensive sale of one of his other cards. The previous high mark was set by the pitcher’s one-of-a-kind 2023 Bowman Draft Chrome Prospect autographed Superfractor card (PSA 7 card grade, 10 auto grade), which sold for $123,200 through Goldin Auctions last September. But that card did not include the patch Skenes wore on his jersey sleeve during his first Major League start on May 11, 2024.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:17 am to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
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he boy will get $925,000 from the sale of the card. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star pitcher and 2024 National League Rookie of Year will only make $875,000 this season, via Spotrac.
What's the relevance of including this? Am I supposed to feel bad for Paul Skenes making $875,000 in base salary this season. You know, before we consider the $9.2 million signing bonus.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:23 am to Wayne Campbell
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What's the relevance of including this? Am I supposed to feel bad for Paul Skenes making $875,000 in base salary this season. You know, before we consider the $9.2 million signing bonus.
And the fact the card company paid him for this promotion
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:45 am to hsfolk
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:00 am to WestCoastAg
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but it's definitely in the millions
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Like I said, in the millions.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:27 am to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
This card will be worth far more down the road.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:30 am to iwyLSUiwy
Forgive me. A bunch of people were throwing out multiple millions and then you used the plural form and I responded to that
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:36 am to WestCoastAg
I will say the 10s of millions projections were pretty laughable.
I've been in the hobby for a long time so I was pretty in tune with what it was going to go for. Knew one of the bigger bidders as well.
Just have to have silly money to buy this one. All of my higher dollar cards are investment pieces of GOATS, this is not an investment piece imo. Pitchers just don't hold value in the hobby. Good for the kid though.
I've been in the hobby for a long time so I was pretty in tune with what it was going to go for. Knew one of the bigger bidders as well.
Just have to have silly money to buy this one. All of my higher dollar cards are investment pieces of GOATS, this is not an investment piece imo. Pitchers just don't hold value in the hobby. Good for the kid though.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:39 am to iwyLSUiwy
Have you seen the conspiracy theory behind this card and Topps/Fanatics?
Has this "kid" ever surfaced?
Has this "kid" ever surfaced?
Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:45 am to bluebarracuda
Yea. I'm hoping none of them are true and the hobby hasn't fallen to new lows.
I know I didn't buy any of the product because I felt like Topps was just holding onto it as long as possible. No telling how much of that product they sold before they actually put it in a pack.
Not surprisingly it went to a breaker.
I know I didn't buy any of the product because I felt like Topps was just holding onto it as long as possible. No telling how much of that product they sold before they actually put it in a pack.
Not surprisingly it went to a breaker.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 1:39 pm to lsupride87
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Card is likely worth 10s of millions
No way
Posted on 3/21/25 at 1:41 pm to Walking the Earth
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Livvy has been reading too much Larry Leo if she thinks someone is passing up a potential six or seven figure payday just to sit next to her for one game.
That’s just the starting point of negotiations.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:38 pm to Wayne Campbell
No. It was included with the sale price. Just ignore it if that part bothers you that much.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:40 pm to PoBoy1
Possibly. But it's not a gamble I want any part of. Pitchers blow out their arms all the time.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:42 pm to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
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The famed Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch autographed card sold for $1.11 million early Friday morning,
LOL at all the people who thought it was going to go for multi-millions... Like I said just one page back, Ruth's, Mantles, Cobbs, etc.. gin perfect condition and on rare occasions go for 5-8 million, there was no chance in hell this was going to go for millions.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:10 pm to Lsut81
I never believed that either. Pitchers blow out their arm every year. I remembered when Harvey, Liriano, Prior, and others set the MLB landscape on fire when they debuted. And many of them quickly flamed out. It's not even a first year card despite having a "rookie" designation. His 2023 Pirates cards is what I would want if I still collected.
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