Munetaka Murakami

The Line of the Day

3-5, 2 HR, 6 RBI — Sun, Jul 26 · day game vs. Houston Astros The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipMunetaka Murakami [Mojo] #9 · 2026 Bowman · 1718 recent sales 7N ▼0.4%

$5.91Raw$124PSA 9$223PSA 10$289BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieMunetaka Murakami #5 · 2026 Topps Finest · 3902 recent sales 7N ▼9.2%

$1.57Raw$18.75PSA 9$36.23PSA 10$47.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Munetaka Murakami arrived from Kumamoto, Japan, in March and immediately showed the shape: 29 home runs, 131 strikeouts, and a .230 average in 91 games. His EV95 of 110.0 — 93rd percentile — says the average isn't a contact problem; it's a swing-and-miss tax on real power. Results within 0.0076 of what the physics support — almost no daylight between contact and outcome. He sits No. 137 on the breakout composite, and the .230 and the power both belong to him.

Current signals

The read: Murakami is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 110.0 (93rd percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.003 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 109 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)

110

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0032

Overlay score

0.2784

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.6

Balls in play

201

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

$16.50M

Tax hit

$17.00M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

Guaranteed

$34M

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

$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.

Collect Munetaka Murakami

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The Bureau on Munetaka Murakami

The scouting press, in their own words