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Austin Wells
B/T L/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Scottsdale, AZ, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 1 · played C 125 · MLB debut 2023-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-07): 2 G · .250 AVG · 1 HR · 1 RBI · 1.571 OPS
388 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
2-3, 2 HR, 5 RBI — Sun, Aug 30 · day game vs. Boston Red Sox The scorecard →
The card rack
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FlagshipAustin Wells [Gold] #220 · 2026 Topps · 54 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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The rookieAustin Wells #RA-AW · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 100 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Austin Wells, the 2020 first-rounder from Scottsdale, has walked 7 times against 4 strikeouts in 7 MLB games this September — the plate discipline that lifted his line to a 1.147 OPS even with just 2 RBI.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Wells here — The Buzz August 31, 2026
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.
- EV95106.052
- Deserved (xVal)0.37151
- Got (aVal)0.31720
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.04491
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.
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $2.50M
- Tax hit
- $2.50M
- Service time
- 3 yr 31 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1 · agent WME Baseball
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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.
The Wire
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Collect Austin Wells
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The Bureau on Austin Wells
The scouting press, in their own words
https://t.co/QIOSF5LZch Beginning a multi-part series today on how the Yankees should handle each position this offseason. Part 1 is catching -- who is Austin Wells and do the NYY need a replacement or a better catching partner for him?
https://t.co/tkP8SjenKq In the wake of their Game 1 baserunning blunder, Yankees need to remember who they are and not try to beat the Rays at their own game (Wells, 477th in sprint speed, mistook himself for a fast guy)
And there goes Rays ace Drew Rasmussen's no-hitter with two outs in the 8th, but Austin Wells tries to stretch a double into a triple, and is thrown out anyways. Rays lead, 1-0, in the 8th.
Umpire favor
+7.2 net runs over 58 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Austin Wells’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 Division Series, Game 3 · NYY vs. TB · 0-3
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · NYY vs. TB · 1-3, 2B
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · NYY vs. TB · 1-3, 2B
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · NYY vs. BOS · 1-4, 2 RBI, 1 R
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · NYY vs. BOS · 2-4, 2 RBI, 1 R
The line
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