Jacob Misiorowski is on fire.
Not only has the Brewers rookie phenom taken baseball by storm with a dazzling start to his career, but the 23-year-old has hot hands off the field as well.
The flame-throwing righty pulled a rare Pokémon card after Friday’s win over the Mets, a holographic Charizard — a fire-breathing dragon-like creature — from the original base set that was released in 1999.
Misiorowski’s teammates went nuts after he pulled the card, as shown in a video first posted to closer Trevor Megill’s Instagram Story.
“That’s, like, the big card. So it was fun. It was really cool,” Misiorowski said, per MLB.com. “It’s just crazy that we pulled it in the locker room. I didn’t expect anything. I just saw that it was red and I was like, holy [smokes], this might actually happen.”
If the card is in near mint condition, it goes for roughly $455 as is. If it were to get graded by an authentication company, it could be worth more.
A base set Charizard in a gem mint 10 grade by PSA is worth roughly $15,000. There are 489 copies in a PSA 10.
Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins had a few packs of the old cards that he handed out to teammates to open after the team’s series-opening win over the Mets, according to MLB.com.
Pitcher Brandon Woodruff is a new collector, and Hoskins let him open a pack.
“For the last couple of months, we have been visiting card shops together on the road,” Hoskins said. “I’ve been collecting pretty heavily for the last five years or so since the pandemic. Like a lot of people going through their old things back home, we found nostalgia in our closet.”
The start of Misiorowski’s career has been so eye-popping that it earned him a controversial All-Star nod after just five starts.
He has a 2.70 ERA with 47 strikeouts in 33 ⅓ innings across seven starts.
Misiorowski is currently on the injured list with a shin contusion, but threw three simulated innings on Saturday and should be rejoining the Brewers in short order.