Ronald Acuña Jr.

The Chase

4 H from 1,000 — our pace: ≈ September 12, 2026 Follow the chase →

1 RBI from 500 — our pace: ≈ September 8, 2026 Follow the chase →

On the record · career milestone this season

200 career home runs — Wed, Sep 2 · day game vs. Washington Nationals The scorecard → · The write-up →

The Line of the Day

2-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Thu, Aug 6 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipRonald Acuña Jr. [40/70] #927 · 2023 Topps Now · 33 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$5.00Raw$32.99PSA 9$45.00PSA 10$59.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 23 nights

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The rookieRonald Acuna Jr. #193 · 2018 Topps Chrome · 651 recent sales 7N ▲5.8%

$12.51Raw$21.00PSA 9$47.62PSA 10$129BGS 10PSA 10 · 23 nights

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Scout’s note

Ronald Acuña Jr., 28, from La Guaira, Venezuela, sits one home run short of 200, and the Index page is up for the chase — nothing more, nothing less. The engine still sees the thunder: EV95 of 108.6 across 218 balls in play, with a luck gap of -0.0465, so his .232 average and .742 OPS in 80 games this year have come in colder than what he's squared up. The last 14 days are rough — 17 strikeouts in 12 games, .191 average — but that's the box score talking, not the barrel. A milestone is a night for the hobby; the boards keep the signal honest and separate.

Note written Aug 26 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Acuña is in the Index for the milestone watch — career No. 200 HR landed September 2. 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)

108.87

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0262

Overlay score

0.4092

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.1

Balls in play

243

Age

28

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 September 2, 2026.

2026 salary

$17.00M

Tax hit

$12.50M

Service time

7 yr 159 d

Guaranteed

$100M

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.

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

$12.5M

Guaranteed

$100.0M

Term

8 yrs

His class

Extension

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 Ronald Acuña Jr.

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