Miguel Vargas

The Line of the Day

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

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Scout’s note

Miguel Vargas sits at an EV95 of 106.5 — 61st percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track — with a luck gap of -0.035, meaning his results run slightly below what the contact quality supports. Thirty-three homers and 93 RBI for Chicago this year suggest the gap is closing on its own. A Havana product at 26, he ranks No. 86 on the breakout composite and doesn't crack the board's top 20 — slightly owed, but not enough to flag.

Note written Oct 6 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Vargas is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 106.5 (61st percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.035 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 86 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

106.48

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0352

Overlay score

0.3635

WAR (season · MLB calc)

5.3

Balls in play

465

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 2, 2026.

2026 salary

$5.65M

Tax hit

$5.65M

Service time

3 yr 101 d

Options left

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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 September 17, 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.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Miguel Vargas has walked eight times through four ALDS games.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-11 · newest post 2026-10-10 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

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The Bureau on Miguel Vargas

The scouting press, in their own words