MLB · 2B · Houston Astros
Jose Altuve
B/T R/R · 5' 6" · 167 lb · born Maracay, Venezuela · age 36 · played 2B 129, DH 7 · MLB debut 2011-07-20
573 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
The Miami Marlins turn a triple play — A triple play off Jose Altuve's bat. Three outs on one batted ball. Read it →
On the record · career milestones this season
2,500 career hits — Wed, Sep 9 · night game vs. Philadelphia Phillies The scorecard → · The write-up →
1,300 career runs scored — Sun, Sep 6 · day game vs. Arizona Diamondbacks The scorecard → · The write-up →
2,400 career hits — Mon, Apr 6 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard →
The card rack
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FlagshipJose Altuve #US132 · 2011 Topps Update · 615 recent sales 7N ▼11.5%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Jose Altuve is 36, from Maracay, and has played 2,111 big-league games with a .300 average and 271 home runs. Over his last five MLB games he hit .238 with five RBIs and five strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Altuve here — The Buzz September 10, 2026 · The Overnight: 2,500 career hits (September 9, 2026) · 1,300 career runs scored (September 6, 2026)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.620
- Deserved (xVal)0.31111
- Got (aVal)0.35146
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0437
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $33.00M
- Tax hit
- $25.00M
- Service time
- 15 yr 72 d
- Guaranteed
- $125M
The deal 5 years $125M (2025–2029) — $25.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 5 y/$125M (25-29) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $13.0M | $13.0M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $25.0M | $25.0M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $25.0M
- Guaranteed
- $125.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $30.0M | $30.0M | $10.0M | $10.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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: Jose Altuve gained the most run value on ABS challenges among batters despite standing 5-foot-6.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-09 · newest post 2026-10-08 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Jose Altuve
The scouting press, in their own words
PLive Card of the Day Number 129: A 2018 Topps Fire Gold Speed Demons of Jose Altuve Second basemen rarely ascend to the same level of stardom as their shortstop counterparts, but Altuve stands as one of the exceptions. The Astros talisman is wrapping up his 16th year in the https://t.co/M2czClVuQD
Umpire favor
-0.2 net runs over 66 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The postseason
Jose Altuve’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 2-4, HR, 1 RBI
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-4
The line
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