José Caballero

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FlagshipJose Caballero [Gold] #88 · 2026 Topps · 85 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$2.26Raw$14.46PSA 9$42.63PSA 10$55.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieJose Caballero #AC-JCA · 2023 Topps Chrome Update Autographs · 31 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.26Raw$23.00PSA 9$57.50PSA 10$75.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

From Las Tablas, Panama, a seventh-round pick in 2017, Caballero has swiped 147 bases in his career and 28 this season for New York, seventh in the game. His EV95 sits at 103.7 — 20th percentile — with results running 0.042 ahead of what the contact supports. Warm, but not yet at the fade line. He's No. 331 of 355 on the breakout composite. The board takes 20, and he's not one of them.

Current signals

The read: Caballero is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 103.7 (20th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.022 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 315 of 373 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)

0.022

Overlay score

-0.2396

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.2

Balls in play

259

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 3, 2026.

2026 salary

$2.00M

Tax hit

$2.00M

Service time

2 yr 170 d

Options left

3 / 3

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 2.170 reads pre_arb. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

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 August 20, 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.

Collect José Caballero

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The Bureau on José Caballero

The scouting press, in their own words