Jackson Holliday’s Topps MLB Debut Patch To Join Paul Skenes’ On Auction Block Next Month
Paul Skenes and Jackson Holliday were both No. 1 picks in the MLB Draft and both are former No. 1 players on the Baseball America Top 100 rankings.
And now, Holliday will join Skenes in the first high-profile collectibles competition of 2025 for both–the auctions of their 1/1 debut patches from 2024 Topps Chrome Update.
Fanatics Collect (which is owned by Fanatics, which also owns Topps) made the announcement on Sunday that the Holliday patch–pulled in December by a hobby shop in Texas and currently owned by a private collector–will join the Skenes patch as part of their March Premier auction.
After the card was pulled in the Texas shop, it was purchased by a collector who was born in Baltimore and says he collects 1/1 Orioles cards.
“Honestly, it’s very hard to let go,” said the collector who pulled the patch, who did not give his name, in an Instagram video posted by Fanatics Collect.
The Skenes patch was pulled on Christmas Day by an 11-year-old in Los Angeles. Fanatics Collect has announced that they will donate their 20% auction commission to help Los Angeles wildfire victims.
Just a few months back, Fanatics Collect sold the Junior Caminero Debut Patch for $66,000. Shortly thereafter, the Jackson Chourio Debut Patch–pulled just one day after the Holliday patch last December–sold on Fanatics Collect for $105,000 in a private sale.
The Chourio sale is the most any debut patch has sold for thus far–a record expected to be easily broken by the Skenes auction next month.
Roughly 200 of the 251 patches in 2024 Chrome Update have been pulled (or at least have publicly surfaced) since the release on Nov. 13. Among the higher-profile player patches that have not yet publicly surfaced are Jackson Merrill, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Evan Carter.
Editor’s note: The author of the story owns a Debut Patch that will also be a part of a Fanatics Collect auction in March, albeit in a weekly auction rather than the Premier auction.
