🔥 2024 BOWMAN CHROME — EDWARD LANTIGUA 1ST BOWMAN AUTO GREEN REFRACTOR /99
New York Mets | Card #CPA-EL | Serial #66/99

📌 CARD DETAILS

Year: 2024
Brand: Bowman Chrome
Player: Edward Lantigua
Card #: CPA-EL
Parallel: Green Refractor
Type: 1st Bowman Certified On-Card Autograph
Serial #: 66/99 (only 99 copies exist!)
Team: New York Mets
Condition: Raw — Near Mint / Mint (NM-MT)


⚡ WHY THIS CARD IS HOT RIGHT NOW
Edward Lantigua is one of the most exciting young outfield prospects in all of baseball. Signed by the Mets on January 15, 2024 — the very first day of the signing period — Lantigua received a $950,000 bonus, the second-largest the organization gave out that year. Amazin' Avenue That's the Mets putting serious money where their mouth is on a teenager from the Dominican Republic.

MLB Pipeline ranked him the No. 41 prospect in the entire 2024 international signing class Metsmerized Online, and the scouts love what they see. Baseball America gave him a 50/Extreme grade, projecting a rangy, athletic frame with high-end strength still to come — with power grades that should only grow as he matures. Baseball America
In 2025, playing in the Florida Complex League, Lantigua slashed .288/.433/.399 with 33 walks in just 49 games — an elite on-base approach for a teenager. Yahoo Sports The kid has a natural feel for the strike zone that most prospects twice his age don't possess.
Scouts have already recorded multiple batted ball events with 100+ MPH exit velocities Baseball Savant — and he's still only 18 years old. The ceiling here is enormous.

His scouting comp? Evaluators draw comparisons to Mariners star Julio Rodríguez Amazin' Avenue — a comparison that should get any serious prospect collector's attention.

🌟 This is his TRUE 1st Bowman card — the most important card a prospect can have. Numbered to just /99 in the Green Refractor parallel, this is a scarce, early piece of a player with legitimate star potential in the largest market in baseball — New York.