Carlos Narváez

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FlagshipCarlos Narvaez #248 · 2026 Topps Heritage · 80 recent sales 7N ▲0.2%

$2.95Raw$14.55PSA 9$42.82PSA 10$56.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 59 nights

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The rookieCarlos Narvaez #RA-CAN · 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 110 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$3.25Raw$28.30PSA 9$158PSA 10$205BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Carlos Narváez is 27, from Maracay, Venezuela, a catcher who debuted in July 2024 and has played 219 MLB games across two seasons. His EV95 of 105.625 sits right at the league median — he is not a special contact hitter by raw physics — but his results fall further below that contact quality than 99% of qualified hitters, a luck gap of -0.0911. That gap puts him No. 5 on the breakout board. In 95 MLB games this season he has hit .161 with three home runs and a .467 OPS, numbers that undersell what the bat is producing on contact across 166 balls in play. A right-handed-hitting catcher with a gap this wide is the kind of profile that changes when the ball starts finding holes. Narváez has not hit enough yet to prove the contact translates, but the physics say he has been hitting more than the line shows.

Note written Oct 10 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Narváez is hitting the ball harder than 48% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 105.6; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 99% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 5 of 20 on the breakout board.

OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

105.625

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0911

Overlay score

0.776

WAR (season · MLB calc)

-0.6

Balls in play

166

Sprint (ft/s)

25.3

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 38 d

Options left

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, Baltimore Orioles.

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

$0.80M

Guaranteed

$0.80M

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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