Rhys Hoskins

The Chase

1 HR from 200 — our pace: ≈ September 17, 2026 Follow the chase →

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career runs scored — Fri, May 15 · night game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

FlagshipRhys Hoskins #259 · 2018 Topps · 53 recent sales 7N ▲0%

His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.

$1.69Raw$6.58PSA 9$9.50PSA 10$25.77BGS 10PSA 10 · 27 nights

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Scout’s note

A fifth-round pick out of Sacramento in 2014 who debuted in 2017, Hoskins sits one home run shy of 200 for his career, and that chase is why the page is up — milestones are when the hobby looks. The engine backs off: his EV95 of 106.27 and a luck gap of 0.0002 say the contact is real, but a .179 average and a -0.4 WAR at 33 are real too. The boards keep a milestone honest: it is an event, not a signal.

Note written Sep 3 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Hoskins is in the Index for the milestone watch — 1 HR shy of 200. Milestone nights are when the hobby pays attention, so the page is up for the chase. The boards stay honest: a milestone is an event, not a signal.

SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

106.27

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0002

Overlay score

0.0686

WAR (season · MLB calc)

-0.4

Balls in play

167

Age

33

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 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.50M

Tax hit

$1.50M

Service time

8 yr 53 d

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Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 8.053 reads free_agency. 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, Cleveland Guardians.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 27, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$1.50M

Guaranteed

$1.50M

Term

1 yr

His class

MiFA

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 Rhys Hoskins

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The Bureau on Rhys Hoskins

The scouting press, in their own words