José Ramírez

The Chase

7 RBI from 1,000 — our pace: ≈ September 21, 2026 Follow the chase →

5 HR from 300 — our pace: ≈ November 13, 2026 Follow the chase →

On the record · career milestone this season

300 career stolen bases — Sat, May 2 · day game vs. Athletics The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipJose Ramirez #HA-27 · 2025 Topps Home Field Advantage · 164 recent sales 7N ▲0.3%

$44.27Raw$80.00PSA 9$289PSA 10$376BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieJose Ramirez #19 · 2013 Bowman Chrome Mini · 0 recent sales

—Raw—PSA 9—PSA 10—BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

José Ramírez has been Cleveland's engine since 2013 — a switch-hitter from Bani who has stacked 295 home runs and 316 steals on a 5'8", 190-pound frame. The physics say he's slightly owed: an EV95 of 106.17 (55th percentile of 372 tracked bats) with results 0.0549 below what the contact supports, not a flag but a small debt. He sits No. 39 on the breakout composite, outside the board's top 20, and at 33 that gap is worth watching.

Current signals

The read: Ramírez is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 106.1 (55th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.049 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 49 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

106.125

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0485

Overlay score

0.4543

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.4

Balls in play

316

Age

33

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 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$18.36M

Tax hit

$20.80M

Service time

11 yr 74 d

Guaranteed

$175M

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

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

$20.8M

Guaranteed

$175.0M

Term

7 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 José Ramírez

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