MLB · LF · San Diego Padres
Austin Hays
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 200 lb · born Daytona Beach, FL, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 3 · played LF 43, DH 30, RF 13 · MLB debut 2017-09-07
118 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Austin Hays is a 31-year-old designated hitter out of Daytona Beach, Florida, a 2016 third-round pick who has played in 720 big-league games. His career average is .263 with an OPS of .747, and over his last two weeks of MLB play he hit .400 with a .855 OPS across 5 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $6.00M
- Guaranteed
- $6.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.0M | $8.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
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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Umpire favor
-0.4 net runs over 10 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Austin Hays’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 0-2, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · SD vs. MIL · 0-1
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · SD vs. MIL · 0-1
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 0-1
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · SD vs. CHC · 0-4
The line
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