The most expensive Topps MLB Debut Patch card outside of Paul Skenes’ sold early Friday morning.
The Nick Kurtz 2025 Topps Chrome Update MLB Debut Patch rookie one-of-a-kind autographed card (ungraded) stands as the second highest price for a card within the unique insert set, selling for $516,000 through Fanatics Collect’s January Premier auction.
That’s quite a bit higher than Kurtz jokingly estimated when he first signed the card. The AL Rookie of the Year said the card would be worth “a couple hundred bucks.”
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Kurtz’s card moved well past the previous No. 2 placeholder (Jackson Holliday — $198,000). Kurtz still has a long way to go, though, to catch Skenes with his card selling for $1.11 million one year ago to Dick’s Sporting Goods, which has the card on display in one of its Pittsburgh area stores.
The MLB Debut Patch was first introduced in 2023. Since then, every player wears the patch on the sleeve of their jersey during their first MLB game. The patch is then removed, authenticated and put into a one-of-a-kind card which is then signed by the player and put into a Topps release. The latest batch of MLB Debut Patch cards can be found in 2025 Topps Chrome Update.
This Kurtz sale crushed the previous top price for a card of the Athletics first baseman, which only lasted a few weeks. His previous highest sale came when his 2025 Topps Chrome Superfractor one-of-one autographed card sold for $86,620 last month via Goldin.
The MLB Debut Patch cards for Boston Red Sox infielder Marcelo Mayer and Luisangel Acuña, who was traded from the New York Mets to the Chicago White Sox this week, also sold Thursday for $54,000 and $30,000 respectively.
Below is a list of the top 10 Topps MLB Debut Patch public sales, via online card sales database Card Ladder:
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