José Caballero

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FlagshipJose Caballero [Gold] #88 · 2026 Topps · 61 recent sales 7N ▲3%

$2.30Raw$13.49PSA 9$39.73PSA 10$52.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieJose Caballero #AC-JCA · 2023 Topps Chrome Update Autographs · 36 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.00Raw$23.00PSA 9$57.50PSA 10$75.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

José Caballero is a 5-foot-9 shortstop from Las Tablas, Panama, drafted in the seventh round in 2017, and the engine reads him as exactly what he shows: an EV95 of 103.7 (22nd percentile of 406 tracked MLB bats) with results within 0.0195 of what the physics support. He sits No. 328 on the breakout composite and the board takes 20, so there's no mispricing to chase. Thirty-four stolen bases for the Yankees, ninth in the league — he is what he is, priced right.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Caballero is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 103.7 (22nd percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.019 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 328 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

103.7

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0195

Overlay score

-0.2191

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.3

Balls in play

306

Age

30

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

$4.25M

Tax hit

$4.25M

Service time

3 yr 170 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, New York Yankees.

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

$2.00M

Guaranteed

$2.00M

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.

The Wire

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