Jase Bowen, who is a prospect for the Pirates, is a big collector of his own cards. He shares them on Twitter after each new card. He's been looking for rare versions of his own card from the 2023 Bowman Chrome set. It's been fun to follow
The downside to publicly collecting your own cards is that it seems like people on Ebay know that he's doing it and his cards are priced high. He got a nice little bonus for signing out of high school in 2019 (just under $400K), but he's been making minor league wages since then. They did bump up minor league salaries over the last two years, so they aren't as bad as they used to be, plus he made some extra playing winter/fall ball the last two years, but he's not some millionaire athlete. He can't be throwing thousands at cards he's chasing.
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