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Manufacturer-issued card straight from the pack — no reprints, no reproductions. Orders ship within one business day, tracked, in a penny sleeve and rigid protection. 30-day returns accepted.

Why This Card Matters

Ronald Acuña Jr. is the **2023 National League MVP — a unanimous one, all 30 first-place votes** — off a season that produced **41 home runs and 73 stolen bases**, the **first 40/70 season in major league history**. He hit **.337 with 217 hits, 106 RBI and 149 runs** that year and took the Hank Aaron Award with it. He was **2018 NL Rookie of the Year**, is a **five-time All-Star** (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) and a **three-time Silver Slugger** (2019, 2020, 2023). Acuña was **activated from the injured list on July 27, 2026** after a left hamstring strain cost him nearly seven weeks, and went straight back into the leadoff spot for a Braves club sitting **first in the NL East**. His 2026 batting average is a modest .251, but the underlying line is not: a **.371 on-base percentage** on a **14.8% walk rate against a 22% strikeout rate** — the second-best plate-discipline marks of his career. Bowman is the prospect brand, so its **Veterans** subset is a small run of established players dropped into a set otherwise full of teenagers — which is a neat place for a player who was a Bowman prospect himself not very long ago.

Market-Informed Pricing

Priced against recent verified sold comps, not asking prices. Best Offer is enabled on every listing — reasonable offers are welcome.

Professional Imaging

High-resolution scans and photos so you can inspect corners, edges, surface, and centering yourself. What you see is what you get.

Secure Shipping

Penny sleeve, top loader or card saver, team bag, and rigid protection in every shipment. Packed right, shipped fast, from a smoke-free environment.

Paper Base — Not Chrome, Not a Parallel

**This is the paper base card**, from the 2025 Bowman flagship set — not Bowman Chrome, and not one of the bordered parallels. That matters for searching, because Bowman and Bowman Chrome share card numbers and the chrome version of #21 is a different card. Verified base: the front matches the published base image, and there is **no serial numbering on any edge of either side**. Every 2025 Bowman border parallel — Sky Blue /499, Purple /250, Gold /50 and the rest — is serial numbered, so an unnumbered card is necessarily base. The 2025 Bowman paper base set has no short-print tier; the /199 Purple Pattern SP is a numbered parallel, not a base SP. Centering against the symmetric gray keyline outlining the design panel inside the white border: **52/48 left-to-right, 54/46 top-to-bottom** — strong. Corners are white and sharp with no fraying, edges are clean, surface is clean. Back code CMP100358.