{"title":"Jeremy Pena Rookie Card Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeremy Pena broke into the majors with Houston and quickly became a name rookie card collectors track closely, with his early Topps and Bowman issues drawing steady attention from set builders and rookie specialists alike. His rookie card year produced a wide spread of parallels and inserts across several product lines, giving collectors plenty of variety to chase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers graded PSA 10 Gem Mint examples of Pena's rookie cards, including his 2022 Topps Bowman's Best Refractor, 2022 Topps Update, 2022 Topps Bowman Sterling, 2021 Topps Bowman Chrome Prospects, 2022 Topps Allen \u0026amp; Ginter Silver Portrait, and 2021 Topps Bowman Heritage Chrome, among others. Buyers should check card number and specific parallel or set name closely, since several entries share the same base rookie image across different Topps and Bowman products.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"graded-2022-topps-bowmans-best-jeremy-pena-26-refractor-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Jeremy Pena 2022 Topps Bowman's Best #26 Refractor Rookie RC Baseball Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Peña 2022 Bowman's Best #26 Refractor Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 GEM MINT — Born Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, University of Maine Black Bears, 2022 Houston Astros World Series MVP, 2022 ALCS MVP, First Shortstop in History to Win Both Awards in the Same Postseason, 2022 AL Gold Glove, 2022 Bowman's Best Refractor RC, PSA 10 GEM MINT — The Premium Refractor RC of the Shortstop Who Replaced a Legend and Became a Champion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCard #26 from the 2022 Bowman's Best baseball set in the Refractor parallel — the premium Bowman's Best RC of Jeremy Peña, the Houston Astros shortstop who replaced Carlos Correa following Correa's departure in free agency and who responded in 2022 by winning the American League Championship Series MVP, the World Series MVP, and the AL Gold Glove at shortstop — a postseason performance that made him the first shortstop in baseball history to win both ALCS MVP and World Series MVP in the same year — graded PSA 10 GEM MINT. Bowman's Best is a premium Topps product with high-end card stock and aesthetics that occupies a tier above the standard Bowman product in terms of design quality, and the Refractor parallel within Bowman's Best adds the chromium refractor treatment to that premium stock. Peña at #26 in the Bowman's Best Refractor, at PSA 10 GEM MINT, is the premium refractor RC of one of the most compelling 2022 postseason stories in baseball: the rookie who stepped into one of the most pressure-filled environments in professional sports and produced the most decorated postseason performance in Astros history. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic — The University of Maine — The 3rd Round — The Astros Path\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeremy Peña was born September 22, 1997, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic — the Caribbean capital that has produced an extraordinary concentration of major league baseball talent, a city whose baseball culture has supplied the leagues with shortstops, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers across generations. He attended the University of Maine at Orono — an America East program in the northernmost corner of the continental United States, a college baseball program whose geographic isolation from the major recruiting trails in the South and West makes a future major league shortstop from Maine a particularly distinctive origin story. The Houston Astros selected Peña in the third round of the 2018 MLB Draft, 102nd overall, and he moved through their minor league system steadily, arriving in the major leagues in 2022 as the starting shortstop for a defending World Series champion at the exact moment when his job description included replacing one of the best shortstops of his generation. He more than met the moment. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eALCS MVP + WS MVP — The Historic Double — The 2022 World Series — The First Shortstop Ever\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2022 postseason was Jeremy Peña's stage, and he played it at a level no shortstop had produced in a single postseason in the history of the sport. In the ALCS against the New York Yankees, Peña was the decisive offensive force — his hitting, his fielding, and his overall presence earned him the ALCS MVP award. In the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, he continued that performance to win the World Series MVP — completing what became the first time in history a shortstop won both the ALCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same season. The Houston Astros won the 2022 World Series in six games, and Peña was at the center of that achievement. The AL Gold Glove at shortstop that same year confirmed the defensive excellence that complemented the postseason hitting. The 2022 Bowman's Best Refractor #26, in PSA 10 GEM MINT, was produced during the season of all these achievements — the premium Bowman's Best refractor RC of the shortstop who made history in a single postseason. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 \u003cstrong\u003eItem Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCard: 2022 Bowman's Best #26 Jeremy Peña Refractor Rookie RC. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT. Parallel: Refractor. Format: Bowman's Best premium refractor RC. Set position: #26. Player: Jeremy Peña. Born: September 22, 1997, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. College: University of Maine Black Bears. Draft: 102nd overall (3rd round), 2018 MLB Draft, Houston Astros. MLB Debut: 2022. Career: Houston Astros (2022-present). 2022 Awards: ALCS MVP, World Series MVP (first shortstop in history to win both in the same year), AL Gold Glove (SS). Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾⭐ Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic. The capital. The baseball pipeline. The Caribbean culture. University of Maine. Orono. America East. The northernmost path to the major leagues. The 2018 draft. 3rd round. 102nd overall. Houston. The Astros. The defending champions. Carlos Correa's departure. The opening at shortstop. The rookie. Jeremy Peña. The replacement. The 2022 season. The ALCS. The Yankees. The ALCS MVP. The World Series. The Phillies. The World Series MVP. Six games. Houston champions. ALCS MVP plus WS MVP. The first shortstop ever. The same year. The Gold Glove. The perfect postseason. The 2022 Bowman's Best. #26. The Refractor. PSA 10. GEM MINT. The premium Bowman's Best refractor RC of the shortstop who made history in October 2022. In the slab. 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Into that role stepped Jeremy Peña, a rookie who had never played a major league game, and what followed was one of the most astonishing debut seasons in the modern era of baseball: a 2022 World Series championship, a World Series MVP award, an ALCS MVP, and an AL Rookie of the Year — all in the same year, from a player no one outside of Houston's system had been fully prepared to see replace a two-time Silver Slugger. This is the 2022 Topps Update Jeremy Peña #US253 Rookie RC baseball card, graded PSA 10 GEM MINT — the highest grade achievable for the official first-year card of one of the most decorated rookie seasons in recent baseball history. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🇩🇴 \u003cstrong\u003eDominican Heritage — Baseball's Island Pipeline\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🇩🇴 Jeremy Peña carries the deep baseball heritage of the Dominican Republic, an island nation that has produced Major League Baseball talent with a consistency and volume that no other country in the world has matched. The Dominican Republic's contribution to the fabric of major league baseball — from the academies that develop young players to the cultural passion for the sport that makes it as central to daily life as any other activity on the island — gave Peña the baseball foundation that his development through the minor league system and at the University of Maine translated into a professional skill set capable of stepping directly into a World Series-winning lineup. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🚀 \u003cstrong\u003e2022 Houston Astros — A Championship Run Built on Peña's Impossible Debut\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🚀 The 2022 World Series champion Houston Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games, and Jeremy Peña's performance throughout the postseason defined what 'clutch' looks like from a rookie in October baseball. His 2022 World Series MVP award — the first time a first-year player had won the Series MVP since 2003 — confirmed that what the baseball world was watching was not a fluke or a brief run of fortune but the fully formed performance of a shortstop capable of delivering in the highest-pressure situations the sport can produce. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003e2022 AL Rookie of the Year and ALCS MVP — A Season for the Record Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Jeremy Peña's 2022 season produced a combination of awards that had never been earned in the same year by a single player in the modern era: the World Series MVP, the ALCS MVP, and the American League Rookie of the Year. Three trophies from three separate award processes, each one the result of exceptional individual performance at a different stage of the same extraordinary baseball season. The 2022 Topps Update rookie card is the official documentation of that season's arrival. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾🌟 Jeremy Peña. Dominican heritage. University of Maine. Houston Astros SS, 2022-present. 2022 World Series champion. 2022 World Series MVP. 2022 ALCS MVP. 2022 AL Rookie of the Year. 2022 Topps Update #US253 Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. 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What Peña did with the situation was not simply acceptable — it was extraordinary. He won the American League Rookie of the Year award, the ALCS MVP, and the World Series MVP in the same season, producing the kind of comprehensive rookie postseason performance that baseball analysts spend years looking for comparable examples of and largely failing to find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ His walk-off home run in the 2022 ALCS against the New York Yankees. His Gold Glove caliber defense at shortstop across the full postseason run, not making the mistakes that rookies make in high-leverage situations because he approached each at-bat and each defensive opportunity with the same preparation and the same calmness that his veteran teammates had spent years developing. His willingness to be the player the moment required rather than the player the situation excused him from being — a distinction that matters most when the lights are brightest and the stakes are highest, and that Peña demonstrated across every postseason series the Astros played in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003e2022 Topps Bowman Sterling — Premium Chrome RC\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Bowman Sterling is a premium hobby-focused product built on chromium stock — a higher-end Bowman release whose production values and card construction quality place it above the standard Bowman base set in the collector hierarchy. The refractor sheen of Sterling cards, their durability relative to standard cardboard, and their status as a premier documentation of the players included in each release make them a collector staple for anyone building a comprehensive RC library around the best players at each position. Card #BSR17 is Peña's entry in the 2022 Sterling set, his definitive RC from the season that established his career trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003ePSA 10 Gem Mint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ PSA 10 Gem Mint is the highest grade PSA assigns — the copy that exhibits no defects of any kind under magnification. The Jeremy Peña 2022 Bowman Sterling #BSR17 graded PSA 10 Gem Mint is the definitive version of this card. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. Houston Astros. 2022 World Series MVP. 2022 AL Rookie of the Year. 2022 Topps Bowman Sterling #BSR17 RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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The BCP prefix on the card number identifies it as a Bowman Chrome Prospects card — the subset within the Bowman flagship product that carries the chrome treatment and the RC designation for prospects who have not yet debuted in the major leagues — and the PSA 10 GEM MINT grade confirms that this specific copy presents at the highest possible condition standard. The combination of what the card documents and what its subject subsequently accomplished makes this a prospect card whose story was completed by one of the most remarkable debut-season postseason performances in major league history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Rodriguez Peña was born September 22, 1997, growing up with deep Dominican baseball roots and developing through a college career at the University of Maine — a program in the America East Conference that does not produce first-round draft picks every year but that gave Peña the development environment in which his shortstop profile attracted the Houston Astros' attention. The Astros selected Peña in the third round of the 2018 MLB Draft, and his progression through the Houston minor league system positioned him as the organization's answer to the question of who plays shortstop when Carlos Correa, who declined to sign a long-term extension, departed as a free agent after the 2021 championship season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The 2022 Houston Astros needed Peña to be more than an organizational stopgap — the defending World Series champions entering a new season with a question mark at shortstop, the position that Correa had owned for years, needed the player who replaced him to be genuinely capable at both ends of the ball. Peña delivered at a level that exceeded every projection: the shortstop defense that defined his prospect profile translated immediately to the major league level, and the offensive production he added through the 2022 postseason — clutch hits, home runs at critical moments, consistent at-bats in the highest-pressure situations the game creates — produced a World Series championship and two MVP awards simultaneously. No player in major league baseball history had previously won both the ALCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same postseason. Peña did it in his first major league October. The PSA 10 GEM MINT Bowman Chrome Prospects card is the hobby's document of who he was before that October arrived. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. University of Maine. Houston Astros Shortstop. 2018 MLB Draft, 3rd Round. 2022 World Series Champion. 2022 ALCS MVP. 2022 World Series MVP. 2021 Topps Bowman #BCP11. Chrome Prospects Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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PSA 10 GEM MINT demands four sharp corners, clean surfaces, tight centering, and the eye appeal that earns the summit grade — on a Silver Portrait parallel in the Allen \u0026amp; Ginter format, where the card's antique-inspired design makes surface quality and centering all the more visible under examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The Topps Allen \u0026amp; Ginter release is the baseball card hobby's most recognizable and widely loved heritage set — a product that Topps introduced in 2006 as a modern recreation of the 1887 Allen \u0026amp; Ginter tobacco card series that tobacco companies produced in the late nineteenth century as the first widely distributed sports cards in American history. The modern Allen \u0026amp; Ginter set carries the antique design philosophy of those original tobacco cards — full-bleed portrait photography, a clean traditional card layout, and the sense that the card is a miniature oil portrait rather than a commodity sports card — into an annual release that collectors have come to regard as the hobby's most consistently beautiful flagship product. The Silver Portrait parallel adds a silver border treatment to the Ginter aesthetic that amplifies the gallery feeling, making the Silver Portrait the most visually distinctive parallel tier in a set already known for its distinctive design. Jeremy Peña's #349 Silver Portrait at PSA 10 is the condition summit of the most visually celebrated format his 2022 Topps rookie appears in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña stepped into the Houston Astros' lineup in 2022 as the replacement for Carlos Correa, who had departed in free agency — a shortstop position transition that could have created a difficult comparison for any first-year player. Peña made the comparison irrelevant. In the 2022 postseason, Peña won the American League Championship Series MVP award after the Astros defeated the New York Yankees — and then won the World Series MVP award after the Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to claim the 2022 World Series championship. Winning both the ALCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same postseason as a rookie had never been accomplished in major league history before Peña did it in 2022. His 2022 Topps Allen \u0026amp; Ginter Silver Portrait #349 PSA 10 is the condition-perfect antique-format rookie of the first player in MLB history to accomplish that postseason double as a first-year player. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. University of Maine. Houston Astros. Shortstop. 2022 ALCS MVP. 2022 World Series MVP. First Rookie in MLB History to Win Both. 2022 Topps Allen \u0026amp; Ginter. Silver Portrait Parallel. Card #349. Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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He developed through the Houston Astros minor league system and arrived in the major leagues in 2022 as the man tasked with replacing Carlos Correa at shortstop – a transition that could have been awkward given Correa's stature as a two-time All-Star and central figure in the Astros' dynasty. Peña didn't navigate the transition so much as erase the comparison entirely through what he did in October.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ In the 2022 postseason, Peña won the ALCS MVP and then the World Series MVP as the Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games – an achievement that had no clear modern precedent for a player in his first year in the major leagues. The shortstop who stepped in for one of the best players on the best team in the American League performed at the level of a seasoned postseason veteran from his first playoff at-bat to his last. The 2022 Topps Bowman's Best set placed him at card #26 in its lineup of young premium talent. PSA 10 Gem Mint confirms this copy as perfect: corners sharp, edges clean, surfaces defect-free, centering within the tightest PSA tolerances. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Houston Astros. Shortstop. 2022 World Series Champion. 2022 ALCS MVP. 2022 World Series MVP. Rookie Season. 2022 Topps Bowman's Best. #26. Rookie Card. RC. PSA 10. Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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The question of whether Jeremy Peña could be what the Astros needed him to be in October was genuinely open when the postseason began. What followed was one of the most complete and consequential performances by a first-year player in the history of the baseball postseason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Jeremy Peña was raised in a baseball household in the deepest possible sense of that phrase: his father, Geronimo Peña, played in the major leagues as an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals in the early 1990s, and the game was not simply a sport in the Peña home but a professional discipline passed from one generation to the next, with all the specific knowledge and practiced technique that a father who reached the highest level of the game could transmit to a son who was paying attention. Peña played at the University of Maine, where he developed the defensive skills and the offensive approach that the Houston Astros identified as worth selecting in the third round of the 2018 MLB Draft, and he spent the next four years in the organization's minor league system developing the complete game that made his 2022 major league debut – by necessity, with Correa gone – the kind of debut that even the most optimistic projections had not fully prepared for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏟️ In the 2022 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees, Peña hit .400 with three home runs and drove in the runs that won the series, earning the ALCS MVP Award that the Astros' shortstop position had previously been occupied by someone far more established to win. In the 2022 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Peña continued the performance that the ALCS had introduced, hitting .450 with a home run, and the Baseball Writers' Association of America named him the World Series Most Valuable Player. He became the first rookie in the history of the sport to win both the League Championship Series MVP and the World Series MVP in the same postseason – a combination that had never been achieved before and that placed him, instantly, in the conversation about the most accomplished debut postseason performances the game has ever produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🃏 The 2021 Topps Bowman Heritage set is a tribute to the classic Bowman Heritage design tradition that traces its visual lineage to the early 1950s Bowman sets – one of the most beloved design languages in the hobby, the clean and simple card face that defined what a baseball card looked like at the beginning of the modern collecting era. The Chrome parallel version of the Bowman Heritage base cards adds the Topps Chromium refractor technology to the Heritage design, producing a card that carries the vintage aesthetic of the original design with the visual qualities that modern card technology provides. Card #159 documents Peña's entry into the Bowman Heritage Chrome rookie record at the earliest stage of a career that the 2022 postseason confirmed as one of the most remarkable in the recent history of the sport. A PSA 10 GEM MINT grade confirms four perfect corners, centering within PSA's tolerances, and a surface with zero defects – the highest classification the grading service assigns. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. Houston Astros. Shortstop. 2022 ALCS MVP. 2022 World Series MVP. First Rookie in MLB History to Win Both. 2021 Topps Bowman Heritage #159 Chrome Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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Peña won the 2022 World Series MVP, becoming the first rookie shortstop to win the award in MLB history, and his performance across the postseason – clutch hit after clutch hit, defensive play after defensive play – turned him from a talented prospect into a proven winner almost overnight. The journey to that moment ran through the prospect pipeline, and this 2021 Topps Bowman Sapphire Edition Jeremy Peña #BCP11 Chrome Prospects Rookie RC is the premium prospect card that captures Peña at the beginning of that journey. Bowman Sapphire is Topps' most exclusive and sought-after premium prospect product, produced in extremely limited quantities with rich chromium quality that puts it at the top of the Bowman universe. This example has been graded PSA 10 Gem Mint – four sharp corners, flawless centering, a surface completely free of scratches and print defects, full Chrome gloss preserved without compromise. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Topps Bowman Sapphire Edition is one of the most premium and collector-coveted products in modern baseball card collecting. Sapphire versions of Bowman Chrome Prospects cards are produced in strictly limited quantities, making each individual card more scarce than its standard Bowman Chrome counterpart. A PSA 10 Gem Mint example represents the best-preserved copy of an already scarce card. PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator) is the most trusted grading service in the hobby worldwide. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jeremy Peña. 2021. Topps Bowman Sapphire. Chrome Prospects. Rookie RC. #BCP11. PSA 10. Gem Mint. Baseball Card. Graded. Houston Astros. World Series MVP. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Graded 2021 Topps Bowman Sapphire Edition Jeremy Peña #BCP11 Chrome Prospects Rookie RC Baseball Card – PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports. 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Peña grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of a Dominican Republic immigrant who had also played professionally, and followed his father's path through the University of Maine before the Astros selected him in the third round of the 2018 draft. He moved through the Houston system without the loud fanfare that top prospects receive but arrived in 2022 as the everyday shortstop for a World Series contender – and then produced one of the most decorated rookie seasons in postseason history. ⚾\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ In the 2022 playoffs, Jeremy Peña became only the first rookie shortstop in MLB history to win World Series MVP honors. He carried the Astros through a postseason that required consistent performance at the plate, in the field, and in pressure situations – winning the ALCS MVP against the New York Yankees and then the World Series MVP against the Philadelphia Phillies as Houston captured the championship. The combination of those two awards in a single postseason, in a player's first full major league season, occupies a unique place in the history of the sport. The 2020 Topps Bowman Chrome card capturing him as a prospect – two years before any of that happened – is the earliest Bowman Chrome documentation of a player who went on to write one of the sport's most memorable rookie postseason stories. ⚾\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Topps Bowman Chrome is the premier prospect card brand in baseball – the chromium-stock format that collectors track from prospect designation through major league debut and career trajectory. The BCP (Bowman Chrome Prospects) designation places this card in the subset specifically reserved for players advancing toward but not yet at the major league level. PSA 10 Gem Mint on this 2020 Bowman Chrome Prospects card confirms perfect centering, pristine corners, clean edges, and a flawless surface, sealed permanently in the PSA enclosure. 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