Henry Bolte

The Seam

Hard, Into the Ground — Henry Bolte hits a baseball harder than almost anyone in the Athletics organization. He has three home runs. The distance between those two sentences is the whole story, and he is living inside it in the majors right now. July 26, 2026

A moment

Taj Bradley's immaculate inning — Taj Bradley struck out the side on nine pitches. Nine pitches, three strikeouts, one pitcher, and no ball ever called. Read it →

The card rack

FlagshipHenry Bolte [Laser] #SG-HBT · 2025 Panini Donruss Signature Series · 108 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

$9.30Raw$20.00PSA 9$68.51PSA 10$89.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieHenry Bolte #B23-HB · 2023 Bowman's Best of Autographs · 139 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$10.77Raw$61.50PSA 9$65.38PSA 10$85.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Contact at 0.42 on the MLB value grid, an EV95 of 110.6 in the 99th percentile of 446 AAA bats — Bolte's tools are ahead of the market, which is what pre-consensus means. A 23-year-old from San Francisco, second-round pick in 2022, he's hitting .353 over his last 13 games in his first big-league stint. The contact is louder than the .276 average suggests, and the strikeouts — 91 in 89 games — are the piece that hasn't caught up.

Current signals

The read: Bolte's EV95 of 110.6 sits in the 99th percentile of the 453 AAA bats we track (median 105.0), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.42. The tools are ahead of the market — that's what pre-consensus means.

EV95 (mph)

110.6

xVal (MLB grid)

0.4183

Balls in play

117

Age

23

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

$0.58Mest

Tax hit

$0.58M

Service time

0 yr 0 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.

Collect Henry Bolte

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The Bureau on Henry Bolte

The scouting press, in their own words