Samuel Basallo

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FlagshipSamuel Basallo [Red Rookie Variation] #93 · 2026 Bowman · 483 recent sales 7N ▼8.8%

$1.88Raw$12.48PSA 9$37.20PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieSamuel Basallo #ES-10 · 2026 Bowman Electric Sluggers · 288 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$1.13Raw$11.86PSA 9$35.41PSA 10$46.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Samuel Basallo is 22, a 6'4" left-handed bat from Santo Domingo who debuted in August, and already the engine likes what it sees: an EV95 of 109.7 puts him in the 93rd percentile of 372 tracked bats. The luck gap is -0.0282 — results slightly below what the contact supports, a small debt for a young bat still finding the league. He ranks No. 48 on the breakout composite, outside the board's 20 but close, and 21 home runs in 122 career games say the power is already here.

Current signals

The read: Basallo is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 109.7 (93rd percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.021 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 69 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

EV95 (mph)

109.7

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0207

Overlay score

0.4055

Balls in play

214

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 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.63M

Tax hit

$8.38M

Service time

0 yr 43 d

Guaranteed

$67M

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

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

$8.4M

Guaranteed

$67.0M

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.

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