Ben Rice

The Line of the Day

2-3, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB — Mon, Oct 5 · night game vs. Tampa Bay Rays The scorecard →

3-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB — Wed, Sep 23 · night game vs. Tampa Bay Rays The scorecard →

The card rack

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FlagshipBen Rice #311 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum · 1369 recent sales 7N ▲10%

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The rookieBen Rice #139 · 2025 Topps Chrome · 834 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Ben Rice hits the ball as hard as the 72nd percentile of qualified bats — an EV95 of 107.4 — and his results sit within 0.008 of what that contact should yield, so the 41 home runs for the Yankees this year are earned, not borrowed. A 12th-round pick in 2021 from Cohasset, Massachusetts, he debuted in June 2024 and already owns an .837 career OPS across 342 games. He ranks No. 144 of 406 on our breakout composite, well outside the board's top 20 — a tracked bat whose price matches his physics.

Note written Oct 9 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Rice is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.4 (72nd percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.008 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 144 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

107.4

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0084

Overlay score

0.1919

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.3

Balls in play

414

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.

2026 salary

—est

Tax hit

—

Service time

2 yr 76 d

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2 / 3

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 September 17, 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.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Ben Rice posts another multi-homer game; 4 HR and 8 RBI in four postseason games, driving in 40% of Yankees runs.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-08 · newest post 2026-10-06 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

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The Bureau on Ben Rice

The scouting press, in their own words