Carlos Cortes

A moment

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The card rack

FlagshipCarlos Cortes #249 · 2026 Topps · 116 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

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Scout’s note

Five-foot-seven, switch-throwing, and 29 years old out of Orlando, Florida — Cortes was a third-round pick in 2018 and has batted .273 across 137 big-league games. His EV95 of 105.02 sits in the 38th percentile of the 368 major-league bats we track, below the 105.8 median. A luck gap of -0.0214 puts his results within that distance of what the physics support, and the boards hunt mispricing — his price is right. He sits 144th of 368 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

Current signals

The read: Cortes is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 104.9 (36th percentile of the 375 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. 170 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

EV95 (mph)

104.925

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0141

Overlay score

0.1145

Balls in play

226

Age

29

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 12, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.78Mest

Tax hit

$0.78M

Service time

0 yr 69 d

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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, Athletics.

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

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

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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