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 →

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FlagshipAdley Rutschman #90CU-8 · 2025 Topps Chrome Update 1990 · 62 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$1.00Raw$11.52PSA 9$34.22PSA 10$44.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieAdley Rutschman #250 · 2023 Topps · 482 recent sales 7N ▼7.9%

$1.13Raw$8.00PSA 9$16.57PSA 10$31.33BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Drafted in the first round in 2019 out of Portland, Oregon, Rutschman is 28 now and catching in Boston, and the engine reads a slight debt: his EV95 of 105.81 sits at the 49th percentile of 366 bats — just under the 105.9 median — with results 0.0345 below what the physics support, not enough to flag but enough to notice. He has 9 home runs and 51 RBI in 75 games. He sits No. 85 of 366 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, and the gap is small enough to wait on.

Current signals

The read: Rutschman is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 105.6 (47th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.040 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 83 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

105.645

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0396

Overlay score

0.3576

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.3

Balls in play

238

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 August 14, 2026.

2026 salary

$2.13M

Tax hit

$2.13M

Service time

4 yr 0 d

Options left

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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 August 20, 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.

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The Bureau on Adley Rutschman

The scouting press, in their own words