Adley Rutschman

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career hits — Mon, May 4 · night game vs. New York Yankees The scorecard → · The write-up →

The Line of the Day

2-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI — Thu, Sep 3 · night game vs. Baltimore Orioles The scorecard →

The card rack

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FlagshipAdley Rutschman #90CU-8 · 2025 Topps Chrome Update 1990 · 50 recent sales 7N ▲4%

$1.35Raw$12.02PSA 9$35.52PSA 10$46.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieAdley Rutschman #250 · 2023 Topps · 343 recent sales 7N ▲9.3%

$1.51Raw$7.73PSA 9$14.75PSA 10$31.36BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Adley Rutschman's hardest contact lands at 105.6 EV95 — just below the median of the 406 bats we track — and his results track within 0.015 of what that contact supports, neither owed nor borrowed. The first-round pick in 2019 out of Portland, Oregon, he's 28 and catching in Boston, where 13 home runs across 99 games this season reflect a bat that is exactly what the physics say it is. He sits No. 160 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, and he is not on it.

Note written Oct 9 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Rutschman is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 105.6 (47th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.015 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 160 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

105.6

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0152

Overlay score

0.1574

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.0

Balls in play

297

Age

28

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of February 1, 2026.

2026 salary

$10.25M

Tax hit

$10.25M

Service time

5 yr 0 d

Options left

3 / 3

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$7.25M

Guaranteed

$7.25M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

The Wire

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Collect Adley Rutschman

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The Bureau on Adley Rutschman

The scouting press, in their own words