Willson Contreras

The Chase

2 HR from 200 — our pace: ≈ September 8, 2026 Follow the chase →

On the record · career milestone this season

1,000 career hits — Fri, May 22 · night game vs. Minnesota Twins The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipWillson Contreras [Gold] #180 · 2026 Topps · 55 recent sales 7N ▲0.6%

$1.93Raw$13.00PSA 9$38.50PSA 10$50.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieWillson Contreras #164 · 2016 Topps Now · 31 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.63Raw$9.05PSA 9$10.50PSA 10$56.77BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Contreras hits the ball as hard as almost anyone: an EV95 of 111.27 puts him in the 97th percentile of our 366 tracked MLB bats. He sits 156th of 366 on the breakout composite — the board takes 20 — and his luck gap of 0.0206, the distance between what he hits and what he shows, is small enough that production and physics agree. At 34, the .284 average, 25 homers, and .927 OPS are what the contact supports. Out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, he broke in 2016 with 197 homers across 1,194 games.

Current signals

The read: Contreras is in the Index for the milestone watch — 2 HR shy of 200. Milestone nights are when the hobby pays attention, so the page is up for the chase. The boards stay honest: a milestone is an event, not a signal.

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

EV95 (mph)

111.06

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0161

Overlay score

0.1743

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.1

Balls in play

295

Age

34

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 14, 2026.

2026 salary

$18.00M

Tax hit

$21.25M

Service time

9 yr 108 d

Guaranteed

$88M

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

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

$21.3M

Guaranteed

$87.5M

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.

Collect Willson Contreras

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The Bureau on Willson Contreras

The scouting press, in their own words