Byron Buxton

The Chase

7 HR from 200 — our pace: ≈ October 8, 2026 Follow the chase →

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 →

The card rack

FlagshipByron Buxton #MLM-BB · 2026 Topps Major League Material · 115 recent sales 7N ▲0.1%

$2.25Raw$13.45PSA 9$39.77PSA 10$52.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieByron Buxton #US25 · 2015 Topps Update · 169 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$3.43Raw$17.49PSA 9$29.99PSA 10$39.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Buxton's hardest contact rates at 107.9 — 76th percentile of 369 qualified bats, well north of the 105.9 median. His luck gap is 0.0104: results and physics almost perfectly aligned, nothing owed, nothing borrowed. He sits No. 197 of 369 on the breakout composite, and the board takes 20. Drafted out of Baxley, Georgia, in the first round of 2012, he debuted in 2015; now 32, with 25 home runs in 90 games, the engine says what you see is what he is.

Current signals

The read: Buxton is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.8 (76th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.014 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 212 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)

107.83

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0136

Overlay score

0.034

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 9, 2026.

2026 salary

$15.14M

Tax hit

$14.29M

Service time

9 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 August 20, 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.

Collect Byron Buxton

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