Carlos Cortes

Scout’s note

Cortes, a 2018 third-round pick out of Orlando, FL, has 17 homers and a 1.017 OPS in 71 games for the Las Vegas Aviators this year; he debuted in the majors on 2025-07-23. He's in our Index — tracked, not flagged. The boards bet on mispricing, and right now his account with reality is square.

Current signals

The read: Cortes is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 105.5 (43rd percentile of the 306 qualified hitters we grade) with results within 0.017 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 143 of 306 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

EV95 (mph)

105.535

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0167

Overlay score

0.1654

Balls in play

172

Age

29

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