James Wood

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FlagshipJames Wood [Refractor] #132 · 2025 Topps Chrome · 241 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$5.44Raw$25.43PSA 9$120PSA 10$156BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieJames Wood #29 · 2025 Bowman Chrome Red Rookie Redemption · 277 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$3.13Raw$24.34PSA 9$89.32PSA 10$116BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

James Wood is 24, six-foot-six and 234 pounds, from Rockville, Maryland, a second-round pick in 2021 who debuted in 2024 and already has 70 home runs in 371 career MLB games. His EV95 of 112.835 puts him in the top 1% of the 406 qualified hitters in our sample — he strikes the ball as hard as almost anyone in the sport. Yet his results on contact still run below the physics further than 96% of hitters, a luck gap of -0.0588, and he ranks No. 3 on the breakout board. This season for Washington he has hit .265 with 30 home runs and 77 RBI in 135 MLB games, a line that already reads well. The contact quality across 334 balls in play says it should read even better. Wood is the rare breakout whose numbers look good and whose bat says they are not done climbing.

Note written Oct 10 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Wood is hitting the ball harder than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 112.8; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 96% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 3 of 20 on the breakout board.

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

EV95 (mph)

112.835

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0588

Overlay score

0.8723

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.1

Balls in play

334

Sprint (ft/s)

27.1

Age

24

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 91 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, Washington Nationals.

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

$0.81M

Guaranteed

$0.81M

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.

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