Edmundo Sosa

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FlagshipEdmundo Sosa [Gold] #289 · 2026 Topps · 57 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.74Raw$12.71PSA 9$37.68PSA 10$49.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieEdmundo Sosa #BSB-ES · 2014 Bowman Draft Scout's Breakouts · 1 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.00Raw—PSA 9—PSA 10—BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Edmundo Sosa came out of Panama City and reached the majors at 23 as a glove-first infielder, and now the Phillies are playing him in left field and the engine sees a bat that's outrunning its own numbers. His EV95 of 107.6 clears the 105.9 league median, putting him ahead of 73 percent of the 372-hitter sample, but his results on contact lag the physics further than 98 percent of that group — a -0.0731 luck gap that explains why a .231 average and .640 OPS through 68 games understate what he's putting on the barrel. Over the last two weeks he's hit .375 with a 1.037 OPS in five games, which is the kind of small-sample correction the engine expects when the contact quality is this far ahead of the season line. Sosa ranks No. 8 on the breakout board, and with 35 RBI already — nearly matching the output from 553 career games — there's a real chance the bat is catching up to what the physics has been saying.

Current signals

The read: Sosa is hitting the ball harder than 73% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 107.6; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 98% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 8 of 20 on the breakout board.

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

EV95 (mph)

107.6

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.073

Overlay score

0.7267

WAR (season · MLB calc)

0.1

Balls in play

153

Sprint (ft/s)

28.7

Age

30

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 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$4.40M

Tax hit

$4.40M

Service time

5 yr 140 d

Options left

0 / 4

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

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

$4.40M

Guaranteed

$4.40M

Term

1 yr

His class

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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