MLB · 1B · Athletics
Nick Kurtz
B/T L/L · 6' 5" · 240 lb · born Lancaster, PA, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · MLB debut 2025-04-23
Scout’s note
Kurtz, a 2024 first-round pick out of Lancaster, PA, owns a career .280 average with 56 home runs across 209 big-league games. He's in our Index — tracked, not flagged. The boards bet on mispricing, and right now his account with reality is square.
The Wire
▼ On the field: Analysts praise Kurtz as a rising power star leading Athletics in home runs and RBIs but lament his thumb sprain sending him to the IL and out of the All-Star Game.
△ On cardboard: Collectors list Kurtz Bowman Chrome and Topps parallels plus rookies on eBay while sharing pulls of numbered cards and a 1/1 autograph.
X chatter, trailing 7 days · as of 2026-07-12 · newest post 2026-07-11 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
The line
Last 14 days: 9 G · .152 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · .464 OPS
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Athletics | MLB | 117 | 420 | 90 | 122 | 36 | 86 | 2 | 63 | 151 | .290 | 1.002 |
| 2026 | Athletics | MLB | 92 | 334 | 61 | 89 | 20 | 66 | 7 | 76 | 130 | .266 | .902 |
| MLB CAREER | 209 | 754 | 151 | 211 | 56 | 152 | 9 | 139 | 281 | .280 | .958 | ||
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →
Current signals
The read: Kurtz is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 112.0 (98th percentile of the 306 qualified hitters we grade) with results within 0.007 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 57 of 306 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
- EV95 (mph)
- 112
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0073
- Overlay score
- 0.4106
- Age
- 23
The card rack
FlagshipNick Kurtz #BD-56 · 2024 Bowman Draft · 2147 recent sales
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Collect Nick Kurtz
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