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 Line of the Day

3-4, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 1 BB — Wed, Sep 2 · day game vs. Texas Rangers The scorecard →

The card rack

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FlagshipHenry Bolte [Laser] #SG-HBT · 2025 Panini Donruss Signature Series · 82 recent sales 7N ▲3.7%

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The rookieHenry Bolte #B23-HB · 2023 Bowman's Best of Autographs · 114 recent sales 7N ▲0.8%

$18.65Raw$61.50PSA 9$67.26PSA 10$87.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Henry Bolte hits the ball as hard as almost anyone in Triple-A — his EV95 of 110.6 lands in the 98th percentile of the 504 bats we track, grading at 0.42 on the MLB value grid. A San Francisco kid taken in the second round of the 2022 draft, he debuted this May at 23 and has held his own across 119 big-league games, batting .277 with 11 homers. The recent MLB stretch — .346 over six games — doesn't change the read; the engine liked him before the average ticked up. What matters is that the contact quality travels, and so far it has.

Note written Oct 6 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Bolte's EV95 of 110.6 sits in the 98th percentile of the 504 AAA bats we track (median 104.9), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.42. Contact is what this board ranks and all it ranks — no name is held off it.

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 December 22, 2025.

2026 salary

—

Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 139 d

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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, Athletics.

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

$0.78M

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.

The Wire

△ On the field: Athletics dynasty outlook highlights Bolte 30/30 upside, Gelof power, Butler buy/sell, Burress expectations.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-08 · newest post 2026-10-06 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

Collect Henry Bolte

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The Bureau on Henry Bolte

The scouting press, in their own words