![]() ![]() "And some really think their guy's going to be the next big thing." "Some people prospect as short-term gambling, some long-term. "Timing is everything," PWCC Marketplace director of business development Jesse Craig says. Dominguez, who doesn't turn 20 until February, would need to become, at least, a multiple-time MLB All-Star for Shyne's bet to pay off. But to sports card collectors investing hundreds of thousands - even with the hobby's shocking unpredictability and a recession looming - was something new. The promise of stardom - his MLB debut is projected in 2024 - was apparent in his trade value, but Dominguez's team won't reap the rewards for years, if at all.īig league teams have long taken on that risk. Still, Dominguez was promoted to High-A ahead of the 2022 MLB Futures Game (his second appearance) and emerged as the focal point of hypothetical trades for superstar outfielder Soto or ace Luis Castillo. He was no longer the Yankees' top prospect. In those 57 games, between Rookie ball and Low-A, he hit. The Yankees gave him a franchise-record-setting $5.1 million signing bonus, using 95% of their international bonus pool for 2019-20 on the 16-year-old free agent.ĭominguez's debut in 2021 - after COVID canceled the 2020 minor league season - was lukewarm. The expectations surrounding Dominguez have been near-unprecedented (" He's like Mike Trout," one general manager told ESPN's Jeff Passan when he was signed in 2019) the comparisons equally high (a skill set "like Mickey Mantle," an international scouting director told Passan) and the nickname ("The Martian," or El Marciano, coined in his native Dominican Republic) unforgettable. The legend of The Martian, the Yankees' $5 million, 16-year-old, international coup.Dominguez is not mature yet, like a bond. "Even if you tried to buy the Dominguez from me for $200,000 more than I paid for it," Shyne, 40, says now, "I wouldn't even consider it. After all, baseball provides a lengthier runway for prospects to succeed than football or basketball. Shyne didn't see Dominguez as inexperienced or his investment risky he saw potential waiting to be fulfilled and a profit margin to be reckoned with. The practice had become de rigueur, but the investment is usually more conservative. The card collecting world was stunned: by the total, the name on the card and the brazenness of Shyne's prospecting - a term for investing in cards of unproven players before they bloom or bust. The card was serial numbered one-of-one featuring Jasson Dominguez, the New York Yankees' then-Low-A switch-hitting teenager who had played 57 games of minor league ball at the time of the sale. "That's Fernando Tatis Jr., Ronald Acuna Jr., Juan Soto interest." "That's extreme interest," Ken Goldin, the marketplace's namesake founder and executive chairman, says. ![]() A high-end collector, who goes by Shyne150, had unloaded $474,000 on a 2020 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs Superfractor, a literal one-of-a-kind rookie card, of a minor league prospect - believed to be the most ever for a card featuring a player yet to appear in Double-A. Bidding opened at $30,000 and rose to $101,000 by the next day, accruing 14 bids by midnight. ![]() TWO WEEKS AFTER New Year's, there was a bidding war over a baseball card at collectibles marketplace Goldin.
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