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Austin Hedges
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 220 lb · born San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA · age 34 · draft 2011 rd 2 · played C 77, P 4, DH 1 · MLB debut 2015-05-04
247 plate appearances & 20 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Austin Hedges, a 34-year-old catcher from San Juan Capistrano drafted in 2011, owns a .190 career average across 905 games — but over his last 4 MLB contests he drew 3 walks and slugged a homer, good for an .833 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.823
- Deserved (xVal)0.31213
- Got (aVal)0.33230
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02716
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
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
- $4.00M
- Guaranteed
- $4.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $4.0M |
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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The Bureau on Austin Hedges
The scouting press, in their own words
Going through incentives, and best I can tell, here are some players who hit their incentives exactly: Sam Hentges: 45 G Austin Hedges: 70 GS Ty France: 500 PA Cal Quantrill: 110 IP Tyron Guerrero: 40.2 IP (40, so close enough) Eric Fedde: 15 GS https://t.co/spvYhMkjKR
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Austin Hedges’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.
- AL League Championship Series, Game 2 · CLE vs. TB · 0-1
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CLE vs. CWS · 0-1
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CLE vs. CWS · 0-1, 1 BB
The line
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