Sal Stewart

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FlagshipSal Stewart [Red Rookie Variation] #6 · 2026 Bowman · 1086 recent sales 7N ▲19.6%

$30.00Raw$33.00PSA 9$158PSA 10$206BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieSal Stewart #39 · 2026 Topps Finest · 589 recent sales 7N ▼1.6%

$1.29Raw$12.61PSA 9$37.68PSA 10$49.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

A 22-year-old from Miami, drafted in the first round in 2022, Stewart hits the ball as hard as the 69th percentile of 366 tracked bats — an EV95 of 107.11 — and his numbers match the physics within 0.0029, nothing owed, nothing borrowed. He leads the league in RBI at 94 and has 27 home runs for Cincinnati. The breakout composite puts him at No. 162 of 366; the board takes 20.

Current signals

The read: Stewart is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.1 (67th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.004 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 163 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)

107.09

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0037

Overlay score

0.1382

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.3

Balls in play

383

Age

22

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 20, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.78Mest

Tax hit

$0.78M

Service time

0 yr 28 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

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

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

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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.

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The Bureau on Sal Stewart

The scouting press, in their own words