Alec Burleson

A moment

Alec Burleson's three-homer game — Alec Burleson hit three home runs. Three home runs by one man in one game. Read it →

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career hits — Mon, Aug 3 · night game vs. New York Yankees The scorecard → · The write-up →

The Line of the Day

3-5, HR, 2B, 4 RBI — Sun, Aug 16 · day game vs. Chicago Cubs The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipAlec Burleson [Gold] #573 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 95 recent sales 7N ▼3.9%

$2.55Raw$14.05PSA 9$41.86PSA 10$54.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieAlec Burleson #FA-AB · 2023 Topps Finest Autographs · 76 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.97Raw$32.00PSA 9$37.00PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

A 27-year-old from Charlotte drafted in the 2020 second round, Burleson has 96 RBI this year, second in the sport. His EV95 of 107.94 puts him in the 77th percentile of 372 tracked bats — above the 105.9 median — and his luck gap of -0.0289 means the .291 average is nearly exactly what the contact earns. He's No. 74 of 372 on the breakout composite, and the board takes 20: a bat who showed up, not one we're waiting on.

Current signals

The read: Burleson is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.0 (79th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.030 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 71 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)

108.045

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0302

Overlay score

0.401

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.9

Balls in play

418

Age

27

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 10, 2026.

2026 salary

$3.30M

Tax hit

$3.30M

Service time

3 yr 29 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, St. Louis Cardinals.

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

$3.30M

Guaranteed

$3.30M

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.

Collect Alec Burleson

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The Bureau on Alec Burleson

The scouting press, in their own words