Juan Soto

On the record · career milestones this season

100 career stolen bases — Thu, May 21 · day game vs. Washington Nationals The scorecard → · The write-up →

250 career home runs — Fri, May 15 · night game vs. New York Yankees The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

FlagshipJuan Soto #HA-32 · 2025 Topps Home Field Advantage · 193 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$44.50Raw$76.00PSA 9$234PSA 10$304BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieJuan Soto #US104 · 2018 Topps Update · 660 recent sales 7N ▼7%

$2.56Raw$13.25PSA 9$32.08PSA 10$42.50BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

At 108.98 EV95, Soto sits in the 87th percentile of 369 qualified bats — hard contact that explains 265 home runs by age 27. His luck gap is -0.0379: results slightly below what the physics support, a little owed, not enough to flag. He sits No. 38 of 369 on the breakout composite, and the board takes 20. Out of Santo Domingo, debuted in 2018, now with the Mets hitting .283 with 21 home runs in 84 games. The line could be a touch higher; the talent already is.

Current signals

The read: Soto is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 109.0 (87th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.038 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 35 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

108.98

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0383

Overlay score

0.5131

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.8

Balls in play

245

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 19, 2026.

2026 salary

$61.88M

Tax hit

$51.00M

Service time

7 yr 134 d

Guaranteed

$765M

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 Mets.

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

$51.0M

Guaranteed

$765.0M

Term

15 yrs

His class

FA

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.

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The Bureau on Juan Soto

The scouting press, in their own words