Baseball's sneakers, what Griffey, Jeter and playoff-team pairs sell for on resale

The MLB playoffs are into the Division Series, with eight teams left: the Rays, Yankees, Guardians and White Sox in the American League, and the Brewers, Padres, Dodgers and Braves in the National League. Baseball doesn't have a sneaker culture like basketball's, but it has a few famous shoes: Ken Griffey Jr.'s Air Griffey Max, Derek Jeter's RE2PECT Jordans, and a run of team-named Dunks and Air Maxes. Which of them do people actually buy on resale, and for how much?

Nike Kobe 6 Protro DodgersPhoto: StockXNike Air Griffey Max 1 Freshwater (2021/2025)Photo: StockXNike SB Dunk Low Los Angeles DodgersPhoto: StockXJordan 11 Retro Low Derek Jeter RE2PECTPhoto: StockX

The biggest baseball sneaker on resale is a basketball shoe. Nike's Dodger-blue Kobe 5 and Kobe 6 'Dodgers' sold 19,515 pairs on GOAT and StockX over the past 12 months, at a median of $237. That is almost twice Ken Griffey Jr.'s entire line (10,961 sales, median $145). Most other team pairs sell near or below retail. And last October's playoffs did not give team-named sneakers a clear sales bump.

The Dodgers own baseball's sneaker market

Count every sneaker named after the eight teams still alive on October 5, and the Dodgers account for 90% of the sales (22,220 of 24,714). Most of that is the Kobes. The Kobe 6 Protro 'Dodgers' alone sold 6,932 pairs on StockX at a median of $300, against a $180 retail price. On StockX, 9,668 of 11,093 sales of the Dodgers Kobes (kids' sizes included) went for more than retail.

Take the Kobes out and Dodgers pairs still lead every other team, with 2,705 sales. The Nike SB Dunk Low 'Los Angeles Dodgers' is the pricey one, at a median $319 on StockX against $120 retail.

The best-selling baseball sneaker on resale is a Kobe, not a Griffey.

The rest of the teams still playing barely register. The Padres' Air Max 1 sold 483 pairs on GOAT (median $190), the Braves' Air Max 1 City Connect 217 ($209) and the Brewers' 165 ($209). The White Sox had 67 sales, and we found no Rays or Guardians sneakers with sales this year.

StockX completed sales, October 5, 2025 to October 4, 2026. Retail as listed on StockX.

Griffey sells the most pairs of any player, mostly under retail

Ken Griffey Jr. is the one baseball player whose sneaker line sells in volume. His shoes sold 10,961 pairs across 81 listings, more than every team except the Dodgers. The Air Griffey Max 1 'Freshwater', the 1996 original, was the best seller: 2,565 sales on StockX at a median $154.

Griffeys are not a premium shoe, though. Nike keeps restocking them, and only 31% of StockX sales (1,943 of 6,206) were above retail. The typical Griffey sold 15% under the price Nike charges. If you want a pair to wear, resale is often the cheaper way to buy one.

Jeter and Jackie Robinson pairs are small but pricey

Derek Jeter's RE2PECT Jordans sold just 352 pairs, at a median of $241. Most of them were the Air Jordan 11 Low 'RE2PECT' (215 StockX sales, median $235, retail $200). On StockX, 223 of 264 Jeter sales beat retail.

Jackie Robinson pairs sold 1,482 times at a median of $225, and 83% of StockX sales (770 of 930) were above retail. The Dunk Low 'Jackie Robinson' led at a median $307, well over twice its $130 retail.

Shohei Ohtani is baseball's biggest star, but his New Balance shoes hardly trade on resale. We found 79 sales across 15 listings, at a median $195. A small market like that can't tell us much about price.

Rivalry Dunks sell below retail

Not every team pair holds its value. The Yankees and Red Sox Dunk Lows came out as a rivalry pack, and both now sell well under the $115 retail: a median $75 for the Yankees pair and $62 for the Red Sox. Only 12% of StockX sales of Yankees-named sneakers were above retail (93 of 798), and 13% for the Red Sox (41 of 314).

The Phillies SB Dunk went the other way: 377 of 386 StockX sales were above retail, at a median of $288. Which team is on the shoe matters less than which shoe it is. SB Dunks and Kobes sell high, and a general-release Dunk Low doesn't.

Last October's playoffs gave no clear bump

If playoff baseball sold sneakers, it should have shown up last October, when the Dodgers beat Toronto in a seven-game World Series that ended November 1, 2025. We checked every listing named after a 2025 playoff team that had been on sale since before June 2025 and had at least 15 sales from September to November. For each one we measured October's share of its September-to-November sales, and compared that with 14,459 other sneaker listings over the same months.

The 12 playoff-team listings had a median October share of 31.9%, against 30.8% for everything else. Nine of the 12 were above the typical listing, but a difference that small could easily happen by chance (p = 0.25, Mann-Whitney test; q = 0.49 after correcting for the four comparisons we ran). Dodgers pairs alone, all team pairs, and the player lines (Griffey, Jeter, Robinson) showed no clear October rise either. The player lines had the biggest gap, but it did not survive the correction (q = 0.13).

So we see no clear playoff effect in last year's sales. That fits our earlier finding that big NBA games barely moved player shoe sales. There are only a dozen listings, though, so a small effect could be hiding in the noise.

What it means

Baseball's resale market is really a few good shoes. The Dodgers Kobes, the SB Dunks and the Jackie Robinson Dunk sell well above retail. Griffeys and the rivalry Dunks often sell below it. Last postseason didn't change October sales in a way we could measure. These are past sales, not a prediction of what this year's playoffs will do.

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