Yandy Díaz

On the record · career milestones this season

500 career RBI — Tue, Sep 1 · night game vs. New York Mets The scorecard → · The write-up →

500 career runs scored — Fri, May 29 · night game vs. Los Angeles Angels The scorecard → · The write-up →

1,000 career hits — Thu, May 7 · night game vs. Boston Red Sox The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

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FlagshipYandy Diaz [Refractor] #180 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum · 10 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieYandy Diaz #HMT13 · 2017 Topps Chrome Update · 58 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Yandy Díaz is 35, from Sagua la Grande, Cuba, and this season he's hitting .293 — ninth in the league — with 22 homers for Tampa Bay. The engine sees an EV95 of 108.53, 83rd percentile, with results within 0.0096 of what the physics support. That gap is nearly nothing: as honest an average as you'll find. He's No. 118 on the composite, close enough to the board's edge to bear watching.

Note written Oct 5 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Díaz is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.5 (83rd percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.010 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 118 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)

108.53

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0096

Overlay score

0.2575

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.5

Balls in play

515

Age

35

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 December 16, 2023.

2026 salary

$13.00M

Tax hit

$13.00M

Service time

8 yr 122 d

Guaranteed

$24M

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 8.122 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, Tampa Bay Rays.

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

$11.0M

Guaranteed

$22.0M

Term

2 yrs

His class

Extension

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

▲ On the field: Rays' World Series path: ace Rasmussen, Díaz-Caminero-Aranda core, plus Mesa Jr.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-09 · newest post 2026-10-08 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

Collect Yandy Díaz

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The Bureau on Yandy Díaz

The scouting press, in their own words