Yandy Díaz

The Chase

4 RBI from 500 — our pace: ≈ September 5, 2026 Follow the chase →

On the record · career milestones this season

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

FlagshipYandy Diaz [Refractor] #180 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum · 10 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$1.49Raw$12.37PSA 9$36.90PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieYandy Diaz #HMT13 · 2017 Topps Chrome Update · 34 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$4.57Raw$14.56PSA 9$34.99PSA 10$45.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Yandy Díaz came out of Sagua la Grande, Cuba, and at 35 he's hitting .306 — seventh in the league — with an EV95 of 108.84 that puts him in the 86th percentile of 372 tracked bats. The luck gap is 0.0048: his results match his contact almost exactly, nothing owed and nothing borrowed. He's No. 151 on the breakout composite, well outside the board's 20, but the bat is real and the last two weeks — .364 with four home runs — say the man knows it.

Current signals

The read: Díaz is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 108.8 (85th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.001 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 145 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

108.77

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0012

Overlay score

0.1814

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.6

Balls in play

424

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 August 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$12.00M

Tax hit

$12.00M

Service time

7 yr 122 d

Guaranteed

$24M

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 August 20, 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.

Collect Yandy Díaz

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The Bureau on Yandy Díaz

The scouting press, in their own words