Jose Altuve

The Chase

2 R from 1,300 — our pace: ≈ September 7, 2026 Follow the chase →

6 H from 2,500 — our pace: ≈ September 11, 2026 Follow the chase →

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 milestone this season

2,400 career hits — Mon, Apr 6 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipJose Altuve #US132 · 2011 Topps Update · 571 recent sales

His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.

$22.49Raw$56.50PSA 9$130PSA 10$176BGS 10PSA 10 · 5 nights

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Scout’s note

The engine's EV95 of 103.46 and a positive luck gap of 0.0407 say the same thing the box score has been saying all season: the ball is not coming off the bat the way it did when Altuve was 26, and his .246 MLB line is not underselling him — it is roughly what he's earning. The overlay of -0.4034 is the sharpest number on the page: the engine does not like this profile at age 36. He is six hits shy of 2,500, and a milestone is worth the page. It is not worth a board flag.

Note written Sep 2 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Altuve is in the Index for the milestone watch — 6 H shy of 2500. Milestone nights are when the hobby pays attention, so the page is up for the chase. The boards stay honest: a milestone is an event, not a signal.

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

EV95 (mph)

103.4

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.038

Overlay score

-0.3843

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.1

Balls in play

331

Age

36

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 23, 2026.

2026 salary

$33.00M

Tax hit

$25.00M

Service time

14 yr 72 d

Guaranteed

$125M

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 August 27, 2026. 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

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 Jose Altuve

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