Xander Bogaerts

On the record · career milestones this season

1,000 career runs scored — Mon, Aug 31 · night game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →

200 career home runs — Wed, Apr 15 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipXander Bogaerts #133 · 2014 Topps · 114 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.82Raw$7.44PSA 9$14.75PSA 10$19.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 20 nights

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The rookieXander Bogaerts #H550 · 2014 Topps Heritage · 42 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$2.50Raw$9.47PSA 9$20.00PSA 10$120BGS 10PSA 10 · 20 nights

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Scout’s note

Bogaerts crossed 1,000 career runs on August 31, and the page is up for the milestone. But the engine is on something more honest: an EV95 of 105.66 and a luck gap of -0.0508 across 359 balls in play — the best sample on this page — say his .216 MLB season line is underselling the contact. The overlay of 0.4491 is a green light. The Aruban shortstop who debuted at 20 is 33 now, and his last 12 MLB games (.184, no extra-base hits) are a rut, not a read.

Note written Sep 2 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Bogaerts is in the Index for the milestone watch — career No. 1000 R landed August 31. 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.

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

EV95 (mph)

105.585

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0488

Overlay score

0.4293

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.6

Balls in play

362

Age

33

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

$25.45M

Tax hit

$25.45M

Service time

12 yr 42 d

Guaranteed

$280M

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

$25.5M

Guaranteed

$280.0M

Term

11 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 Xander Bogaerts

If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:

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