MLB · C · New York Yankees
Austin Wells
B/T L/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Scottsdale, AZ, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 1 · played C 101 · MLB debut 2023-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 12 G · .182 AVG · 0 HR · 2 RBI · .501 OPS
314 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipAustin Wells [Gold] #220 · 2026 Topps · 62 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%
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The rookieAustin Wells #RA-AW · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 107 recent sales 7N ▲3%
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Scout’s note
Austin Wells is a 27-year-old left-handed catcher from Scottsdale, Arizona, drafted in the first round of 2020. He has 46 home runs across 358 career games, but his recent stretch shows a .182 average with 13 strikeouts over 12 games.
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 375 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.
- EV95105.952
- Deserved (xVal)0.36846
- Got (aVal)0.2949
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.06496
today · 30 days ago, against the 333 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.87Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.87M
- Service time
- 2 yr 31 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.9M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$866,200 (26) · agent WME Baseball
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.
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
- $0.87M
- Guaranteed
- $0.87M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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 Austin Wells
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Umpire favor
+2.8 net runs over 35 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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