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

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FlagshipAlec Burleson [Gold] #573 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 68 recent sales 7N ▼2.2%

$2.25Raw$13.54PSA 9$40.21PSA 10$52.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieAlec Burleson #FA-AB · 2023 Topps Finest Autographs · 74 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.24Raw$32.00PSA 9$37.00PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Alec Burleson hits the ball hard — 108.6 EV95, 84th percentile across 406 qualified bats — and his results sit within 0.0313 of what the physics support, so the .279 average and 26 homers for St. Louis this year are earned, not borrowed. The Charlotte native was a 2020 second-round compensatory pick, and at 27 he's driven in 116 runs, first in baseball. The breakout composite puts him 48th, outside the board's 20-man cut. His last 14 days — 3 homers in 5 MLB games, but a .211 average with 6 strikeouts — show the swing-and-miss that's kept him from the top tier. The power is real; the contact rate is the gate.

Note written Oct 6 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Burleson is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.6 (84th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.031 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 48 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

108.6

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0313

Overlay score

0.4379

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.2

Balls in play

487

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 January 13, 2026.

2026 salary

$7.75M

Tax hit

$7.75M

Service time

4 yr 29 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, St. Louis Cardinals.

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

$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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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.

The Bureau on Alec Burleson

The scouting press, in their own words