Willson Contreras

On the record · career milestone this season

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

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FlagshipWillson Contreras [Gold] #180 · 2026 Topps · 47 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieWillson Contreras #164 · 2016 Topps Now · 19 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$19.61Raw$9.05PSA 9$22.68PSA 10$56.77BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Contreras has played 1,208 big-league games and is still hitting the ball hard at 34 — an EV95 of 110.725, good for the 97th percentile of the 406 bats we track, with results within 0.0138 of what the contact supports. His .902 OPS for Boston this year is earned, not borrowed. He sits No. 154 on the breakout composite, where the board takes 20, and the gap between price and physics is closed.

Note written Oct 8 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Contreras is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 110.7 (97th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.014 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 154 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

110.725

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0138

Overlay score

0.1768

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.0

Balls in play

312

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 February 1, 2026.

2026 salary

$17.00M

Tax hit

$21.25M

Service time

10 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 September 17, 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.

The Wire

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The Bureau on Willson Contreras

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