Aroldis Chapman

On the record · career milestone this season

400 career saves — Sun, Sep 6 · day game vs. Baltimore Orioles The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases.

FlagshipAroldis Chapman #ATT-12 · 2026 Topps All-Topps Team · 103 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.35Raw$11.87PSA 9$45.00PSA 10$59.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-10-12 · paid links

$1.25Ungraded$1.25Ungraded$1.40Ungraded

See all on eBay →

The rookieAroldis Chapman #110 · 2011 Topps · 351 recent sales 7N ▲10.5%

$2.00Raw$31.58PSA 9$117PSA 10$152BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-10-12 · paid links

$1.75Ungraded$1.99Ungraded$1.99Ungraded

See all on eBay →

Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases. · Flagship = his most-traded card (the market’s reference); the rookie = the top card of his first card year. As of October 12, 2026 · trend is FVR's own nightly archive · prices via SportsCardsPro · what these terms mean

Scout’s note

Sixteen seasons in, Aroldis Chapman has 1,402 career strikeouts and a 1.92 ERA at 38. But the board leaves him ungraded — our stuff model isn't outcome-validated, so no arm gets a flag, not even a left-hander from Holguín still saving games in Boston. He's appeared in 53 games this year with 35 saves, sixth in the sport. The ERA-FIP gap cleared the bar for a regression call, filed by hand. The page exists because the player matters; the grade waits.

Note written Sep 26 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Chapman is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.6

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

$13.00M

Tax hit

$13.30M

Service time

16 yr 9 d

Options left

2 / 3

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 16.009 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

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

$13.3M

Guaranteed

$13.3M

Term

1 yr

His class

Extension

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

▬ Quiet week on X.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-05 · newest post 2026-10-04 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

Collect Aroldis Chapman

If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:

High-end listings ($75+) →

Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases.

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

The Bureau on Aroldis Chapman

The scouting press, in their own words