José Fermín

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FlagshipJose Fermin #RA-JFE · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 93 recent sales 7N ▲4.3%

$6.06Raw$18.18PSA 9$48.99PSA 10$64.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieJose Fermin #RA-JFE · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 93 recent sales 7N ▲4.3%

$6.06Raw$18.18PSA 9$48.99PSA 10$64.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links

$4.00Ungraded$5.00Ungraded$6.29Ungraded

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Scout’s note

Fermín, 27, came out of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic and debuted in July 2023; he's played 93 games for St. Louis with a .247 average and 33 RBI. His EV95 of 101.615 is 5th percentile of 372 tracked bats — well below the 105.9 median — but a luck gap of 0.0118 means the numbers are almost exactly what the contact supports. He sits No. 320 of 372 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, and he's nowhere near it — just an honest read of a light bat.

Current signals

The read: Fermín is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 101.5 (5th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.006 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 310 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

EV95 (mph)

101.48

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0065

Overlay score

-0.2242

Balls in play

225

Age

27

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 10, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.79Mest

Tax hit

$0.79M

Service time

1 yr 75 d

Options left

0 / 3

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, St. Louis Cardinals.

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

$0.79M

Guaranteed

$0.79M

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.

Collect José Fermín

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