Yordan Alvarez

On the record · career milestones this season

500 career runs scored — Fri, Jul 24 · night game vs. Chicago White Sox The scorecard → · The write-up →

200 career home runs — Fri, Jul 10 · night game vs. Texas Rangers The scorecard → · The write-up →

500 career RBI — Fri, Apr 3 · night game vs. Athletics The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

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FlagshipYordan Alvarez #UV-6 · 2024 Topps Chrome Ultraviolet All-Stars · 131 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$40.85Raw$51.60PSA 9$143PSA 10$185BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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The rookieYordan Alvarez #200 · 2020 Topps Chrome · 746 recent sales 7N ▼1.2%

$2.99Raw$19.00PSA 9$42.00PSA 10$77.97BGS 10PSA 10 · 60 nights

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Scout’s note

Yordan Alvarez's EV95 of 111.48 lands in the 98th percentile of 406 qualified MLB bats, and his luck gap of -0.0309 says the numbers are real, not borrowed. His .316 average leads the majors; his 42 home runs rank fourth. The breakout composite puts him at No. 22 of 406, and the board takes 20 — he sits just outside what we chase, because there's nothing to chase. He is what the physics say. From Las Tunas, Cuba, 29 years old, 6.8 WAR: the price is right.

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

Current signals

The read: Alvarez is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 111.5 (98th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.031 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 22 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

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

EV95 (mph)

111.48

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0309

Overlay score

0.578

WAR (season · MLB calc)

6.8

Balls in play

445

Age

29

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 July 31, 2025.

2026 salary

$26.83M

Tax hit

$19.17M

Service time

7 yr 113 d

Guaranteed

$115M

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

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

$19.2M

Guaranteed

$115.0M

Term

6 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 Yordan Alvarez

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The Bureau on Yordan Alvarez

The scouting press, in their own words