Pirates Make Massive Offer To Whoever Pulls Paul Skenes 1/1 Debut Patch
The Paul Skenes 1/1 Pro Debut Patch card was already the premier chase card for baseball card fans in the 2024 Topps Chrome Update set. The Pirates just made things even more interesting.
The Pirates said Friday that they’d “love to bring this card back home to PNC Park to share with all Buccos fans,” and offered a laundry list of goodies in exchange for the card:
- A pair of season tickets behind home plate for the next 30 years
- A softball game for you and 29 of your closest friends at PNC Park, along with Pirates alumni to act as coaches
- A private tour at Pirates Spring Training next year, and a chance to take batting practice and warm up with the team
- A meet-and-greet with Paul Skenes himself, two autographed jerseys, plus other “unique experiences” yet to be determined.
A Pittsburgh Pirates rep told Baseball America that a pair of season tickets behind home plate for the 2025 season cost approximately $8,000. Multiply that by 30, and that’s already a quarter of a million dollars, not even accounting for inflation and future price increases. And that’s just one part of the prize.
Introduced last season, the Pro Debut patch cards feature a game-worn patch from a player’s first game, which is then authenticated by Major League Baseball and put into a 1/1 trading card, which is then autographed by the player.
Skenes headlines a Debut Patch class in the 2024 Topps Chrome Update set which also includes Elly De La Cruz, Jackson Chourio and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. None of these 1/1 cards were pulled as of publication Friday afternoon.
