Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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FlagshipYoshinobu Yamamoto #36 · 2024 Bowman · 625 recent sales 7N ▲3.1%

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

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Scout’s note

The Index holds Yamamoto ungraded on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no arm gets a board flag from it — not even one carrying a 2.53 ERA across 185 MLB innings with 182 strikeouts. The 28-year-old from Bizen, Japan debuted in March 2024 and has 488 career strikeouts in 76 games. The ERA-FIP luck gap did clear our bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it. The player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

Note written Oct 9 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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)

4.7

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

$30.17M

Tax hit

$27.08M

Service time

3 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 September 17, 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.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Dodgers starters since 2025 playoffs: Yamamoto 1.42 ERA, Skubal 1.69, Glasnow 1.73, Snell 3.11.

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The Bureau on Yoshinobu Yamamoto

The scouting press, in their own words