Jake McCarthy

On the record · career milestone this season

100 career stolen bases — Sat, Jul 18 · day game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →

The Line of the Day

4-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Sat, Aug 8 · night game vs. St. Louis Cardinals The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipJake McCarthy [Gold] #243 · 2025 Topps · 20 recent sales 7N ▲2.3%

$1.62Raw$12.30PSA 9$35.82PSA 10$47.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieJake McCarthy #RA-JMC · 2022 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 31 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$7.81Raw$11.00PSA 9$40.58PSA 10$53.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 41 nights

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Scout’s note

Jake McCarthy is running 0.0487 ahead of what his contact supports — warm, but shy of the fade line. His EV95 of 104.345 sits in the 27th percentile, below the median bat we track. A compensatory-round pick from Scranton in 2018, he's 29 and hitting .295 for Colorado, ninth in the league in average. The engine puts him at No. 345 on the breakout composite: the average outpaces the physics, and the gap is worth watching.

Current signals

The read: McCarthy is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 104.2 (26th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.042 ahead of the physics — running warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 346 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

104.24

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0421

Overlay score

-0.3759

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.1

Balls in play

353

Age

29

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 22, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.52M

Tax hit

$1.52M

Service time

3 yr 124 d

Options left

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

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

$1.52M

Guaranteed

$1.52M

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.

Collect Jake McCarthy

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