Miguel Vargas

The Line of the Day

4-5, 2 HR, 2B, 3 RBI — Fri, Aug 14 · night game vs. Detroit Tigers The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipMiguel Vargas [Gold] #329 · 2026 Topps · 119 recent sales 7N ▲2.8%

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The rookieMiguel Vargas #RA-MVA · 2023 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 126 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Out of Havana, 438 games into a career built on a .218 average, Vargas is hitting .246 with 29 homers and an .854 OPS — and the engine says the line is still behind the bat. His EV95 of 107.015 clears the 105.9 median, 67th percentile of 372 qualified bats, with results 0.045 below the physics: slightly owed. He sits No. 47 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20. The last two weeks — .348, five homers, 13 walks — look like the gap closing.

Current signals

The read: Vargas is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.0 (65th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.042 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 50 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)

106.99

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0424

Overlay score

0.4474

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.3

Balls in play

383

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 16, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.81Mest

Tax hit

$0.81M

Service time

2 yr 101 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, Chicago White Sox.

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

$0.81M

Guaranteed

$0.81M

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.

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The Bureau on Miguel Vargas

The scouting press, in their own words