Munetaka Murakami

The Line of the Day

2-4, HR, 2 RBI — Sat, Oct 3 · day game vs. Cleveland Guardians The scorecard →

The card rack

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FlagshipMunetaka Murakami [Mojo] #9 · 2026 Bowman · 280 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieMunetaka Murakami #5 · 2026 Topps Finest · 937 recent sales 7N ▲0.2%

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Scout’s note

Out of Kumamoto, Murakami arrived in Chicago this spring and has launched 35 home runs in 127 MLB games — but the .207 average tells the shape of it. His EV95 of 109.455 sits 92nd percentile among the 406 bats we track, and his results are within 0.0129 of what the physics support: nothing owed, nothing borrowed, just a man who hits it hard or misses. At No. 95 on the breakout composite, the board's 20-seat cutoff doesn't reach him yet.

Note written Oct 8 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Murakami 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 0.013 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 95 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)

109.455

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0129

Overlay score

0.3309

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.9

Balls in play

250

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

$17.50M

Tax hit

$17.00M

Service time

1 yr 0 d

Guaranteed

$34M

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 1.000 reads pre_arb. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

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

$17.0M

Guaranteed

$34.0M

Term

2 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.

The Wire

△ On the field: Munetaka Murakami is a star in his first MLB postseason, turning around 99.5 mph heat after a 440-foot Game 1 homer.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-06 · newest post 2026-10-05 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

Collect Munetaka Murakami

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The Bureau on Munetaka Murakami

The scouting press, in their own words