Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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FlagshipYoshinobu Yamamoto #36 · 2024 Bowman · 1043 recent sales 7N ▲3.5%

His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.

$1.19Raw$12.92PSA 9$52.84PSA 10$145BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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Scout’s note

Yamamoto's page sits in the Index without a board grade, and that's deliberate: our stuff model isn't outcome-validated yet, so no arm gets a flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. What the engine does act on is the ERA-FIP luck gap, which cleared the bar for a hand-filed regression call. The 28-year-old from Bizen, Japan, who debuted in March 2024, carries a 2.60 ERA across 145.1 innings with 136 strikeouts, ranking 8th in ERA.

Current signals

The read: Yamamoto is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

4.0

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 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$16.17M

Tax hit

$27.08M

Service time

2 yr 0 d

Guaranteed

$325M

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

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

$27.1M

Guaranteed

$325.0M

Term

12 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.

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The Bureau on Yoshinobu Yamamoto

The scouting press, in their own words