Luis García Jr.

The Line of the Day

3-5, HR, 3B, 2B, 2 RBI — Thu, Jul 30 · night game vs. Atlanta Braves The scorecard →

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FlagshipLuis Garcia Jr. #OD-196 · 2026 Topps Now Road To Opening Day · 21 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

$3.25Raw$15.07PSA 9$44.48PSA 10$58.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 44 nights

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The rookieLuis Garcia Jr. · 2024 Topps 206 · 0 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$0.25Raw—PSA 9—PSA 10—BGS 10PSA 10 · 44 nights

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Scout’s note

Luis García Jr., 26, born in the boroughs, in his seventh big-league season — and the engine says what you see is what he earned. His EV95 of 108.7 sits 85th percentile among 373 qualified bats, and the luck gap of 0.0211 means the stat line and the physics agree within two thousandths. Seventh in the league at 87 RBI. He's No. 220 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, so nobody's overpaying. Nothing owed, nothing borrowed.

Current signals

The read: García is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.7 (85th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.016 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 205 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

108.7

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0161

Overlay score

0.0567

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.7

Balls in play

356

Age

26

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

$2.02M

Tax hit

$2.02M

Service time

4 yr 142 d

Options left

0 / 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 August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$6.88M

Guaranteed

$6.88M

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.

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The Bureau on Luis García Jr.

The scouting press, in their own words