Shohei Ohtani

On the record · career milestone this season

300 career home runs — Tue, Jul 7 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard → · The write-up →

The Line of the Day

4-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Mon, Aug 17 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard →

3-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Wed, Aug 5 · day game vs. Chicago Cubs The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipShohei Ohtani [Mojo] #52 · 2026 Bowman · 2538 recent sales 7N ▲3.4%

$8.50Raw$21.84PSA 9$64.36PSA 10$84.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieShohei Ohtani #49 · 2018 Bowman · 3563 recent sales 7N ▼0.3%

$125Raw$182PSA 9$728PSA 10$1,274BGS 10PSA 10 · 41 nights

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Scout’s note

From Oshu, Japan, at 32, Ohtani has 30 home runs and a .934 OPS this year, ninth in the league for power. The engine reads his EV95 at 111.3 — 97th percentile, far above the 105.9 median — with results within 0.0247 of what that contact supports. Even the best bat in the sport is tracked, not flagged. He sits 33 of 372 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20. The boards hunt mispricing, and here the only mispricing would be expecting more than the physics already deliver.

Current signals

The read: Ohtani is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 111.3 (97th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.024 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 34 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

111.285

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0242

Overlay score

0.5132

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.2

Balls in play

344

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 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$28.22M

Tax hit

$46.08M

Service time

8 yr 0 d

Guaranteed

$700M

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

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

$46.1M

Guaranteed

$700.0M

Term

10 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.

Collect Shohei Ohtani

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The Bureau on Shohei Ohtani

The scouting press, in their own words