Byron Buxton

A moment

Gavin Williams' immaculate inning — Gavin Williams struck out the side on nine pitches. Only two of them were in the strike zone. Read it →

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FlagshipByron Buxton #MLM-BB · 2026 Topps Major League Material · 84 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

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The rookieByron Buxton #US25 · 2015 Topps Update · 119 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

From Baxley, Georgia, a first-round pick in 2012 who has played 991 major-league games, Buxton is still in center field at 32. His EV95 of 107.83 puts him in the 78th percentile of tracked bats, and his results are within 0.015 of the physics — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. Twenty-five home runs in 93 games this year are exactly what the contact says they should be. He sits No. 225 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, and his name isn't on it.

Note written Sep 27 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Buxton is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.8 (78th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.015 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 226 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)

107.83

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0145

Overlay score

0.0269

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.6

Balls in play

268

Age

32

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

$15.14M

Tax hit

$14.29M

Service time

10 yr 160 d

Guaranteed

$100M

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

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

$14.3M

Guaranteed

$100.0M

Term

7 yrs

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

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