Matt Olson

On the record · career milestone this season

300 career home runs — Mon, May 4 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipMatt Olson / Shohei Ohtani #307 · 2024 Topps Heritage · 134 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.47Raw$14.50PSA 9$38.74PSA 10$50.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieMatt Olson #98 · 2017 Topps Chrome · 420 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$5.00Raw$22.49PSA 9$64.00PSA 10$83.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Born in Atlanta and drafted in 2012, Olson played 162 games and hit 41 home runs, seventh in the league. The engine loves the barrel: his EV95 of 109.5 sits in the 92nd percentile of our 406 tracked bats. Results land within 0.022 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed — and he's No. 64 on the breakout composite. The board takes 20, and Olson is one who makes that cut matter.

Note written Oct 5 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Olson is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 109.5 (92nd percentile of the 406 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. 64 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

109.5

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.022

Overlay score

0.4069

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.0

Balls in play

456

Age

32

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

$22.00M

Tax hit

$21.00M

Service time

9 yr 103 d

Guaranteed

$168M

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

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$21.0M

Guaranteed

$168.0M

Term

8 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.

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The Bureau on Matt Olson

The scouting press, in their own words