Ty France

On the record · career milestone this season

100 career home runs — Sat, Aug 29 · day game vs. Tampa Bay Rays The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

FlagshipTy France #CCR-TF · 2024 Topps Heritage Clubhouse Collection Relic · 22 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieTy France #US129 · 2019 Topps Update · 60 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

France is in the Index for the milestone watch, one home run shy of 100. The engine backs off — a milestone is an event, not a signal. What the physics show is a 32-year-old from Downey, California, a 34th-round pick in 2015 now in his seventh season, running a luck gap of 0.046 — his results outpacing his contact by a hair. An EV95 of 107.025 across 268 balls in play says the contact is solid; the .865 OPS through 110 games with San Diego says it's been better than that.

Note written Aug 30 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: France's results are outrunning his contact by more than 97% of the 382 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 106.7 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 14 of 15 on the fade board.

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

EV95 (mph)

106.69

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0503

Overlay score

-0.3206

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.1

Balls in play

282

Sprint (ft/s)

24.7

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 5, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.35M

Tax hit

$1.35M

Service time

6 yr 89 d

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2 / 3

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 6.089 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

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

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

$1.35M

Guaranteed

$1.35M

Term

1 yr

His class

MiFA

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 Ty France

The scouting press, in their own words