Ben Rice

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FlagshipBen Rice #311 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum · 366 recent sales 7N ▼3.4%

$2.63Raw$14.18PSA 9$42.20PSA 10$55.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieBen Rice #139 · 2025 Topps Chrome · 495 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$2.25Raw$29.00PSA 9$189PSA 10$246BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Rice hits at an EV95 of 106.885 — 65th percentile of 366 bats — and his results land within 0.0195 of what the physics support, so the engine tracks him without a flag: nothing owed, nothing borrowed. A 12th-round pick out of Cohasset, Massachusetts, in 2021, he's 27 now and has 34 home runs, sixth in the league, with a .878 OPS. At No. 111 on the breakout composite, his price is right: the boards hunt mispricing, and they don't find it here.

Current signals

The read: Rice is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.0 (66th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.020 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 112 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

107

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0201

Overlay score

0.2667

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.8

Balls in play

337

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 3, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.85Mest

Tax hit

$0.85M

Service time

1 yr 76 d

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2 / 3

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.

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

$0.85M

Guaranteed

$0.85M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-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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