Drake Baldwin

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FlagshipDrake Baldwin #96 · 2025 Topps Cosmic Chrome · 184 recent sales 7N ▼29.7%

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Scout’s note

Drake Baldwin hits the ball at 107.73 on our EV95 — 76th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track, well above the 105.8 median — and his results are 0.0363 below what the physics say he's earned. That's slightly owed but not enough for a flag; he sits No. 49 of 406 on the breakout composite and the board takes 20, so he's close. A third-round pick in 2022 out of Madison, Wisconsin, he's 25 and batting .284 with 25 home runs for Atlanta. The gap is narrow but it's there, and the read is that he's a little better than his line.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Baldwin is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.7 (76th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.036 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 49 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

107.73

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0363

Overlay score

0.4351

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.3

Balls in play

418

Age

25

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 0 d

Options left

3 / 3

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

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.

The Wire

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The Bureau on Drake Baldwin

The scouting press, in their own words