Seiya Suzuki

On the record · career milestone this season

100 career home runs — Wed, Jul 1 · day game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipSeiya Suzuki #HA-22 · 2022 Topps Update Home Field Advantage · 110 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Seiya Suzuki, 32, came out of Arakawa, Japan, and into the Cubs' lineup in April 2022. The engine tracks him at an EV95 of 108.88 — 85th percentile of the 378 qualified MLB bats we measure, well north of the 105.7 median — with results running 0.0499 ahead of what the physics support. That gap is thin enough to call warm, not hot: he is owed nothing and borrowing only a little. He sits No. 308 of 378 on the breakout composite, outside the board's 20-man take. This season's .274 average and 23 homers in 119 MLB games are the context; the contact is the point.

Note written Aug 31 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Suzuki is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.8 (85th percentile of the 382 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.044 ahead of the physics — running warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 303 of 382 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

108.835

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.044

Overlay score

-0.1632

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.2

Balls in play

334

Age

32

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 29, 2026.

2026 salary

$19.00M

Tax hit

$17.00M

Service time

4 yr 0 d

Guaranteed

$85M

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

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

$17.0M

Guaranteed

$85.0M

Term

5 yrs

His class

FA

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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