MLB · SS · Kansas City Royals
Bobby Witt Jr.
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 200 lb · born Colleyville, TX, USA · age 26 · draft 2019 rd 1 · played SS 112, DH 3 · MLB debut 2022-04-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 12 G · .318 AVG · 3 HR · 6 RBI · 1.000 OPS
510 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipBobby Witt Jr. / George Brett #55DH-12 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum 1955 Double Header · 379 recent sales 7N ▼2.5%
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Scout’s note
Bobby Witt Jr. is already a 6.2-WAR shortstop with 35 stolen bases and a .287 average, and the engine says the bat is still underperforming the barrel. His EV95 of 110.9 beats 96% of qualified hitters; his luck gap of -0.0388 means the results on contact sit below the physics for 85% of the sample. That read — elite contact, quiet relative results — is what puts him No. 18 on the breakout board, even in a season where everything looks good. He's from Colleyville, Texas, a first-round pick in 2019, and at age 26 he already has 121 career homers and 183 steals — plus a sprint speed of 30.1 that ranks among the fastest in the game. The last two weeks — .314 with three homers and eight walks in 13 games — look like the contact catching up to the line.
Current signals
The read: Witt is hitting the ball harder than 96% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 110.9; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 83% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 18 of 20 on the breakout board.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 110.9
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0372
- Overlay score
- 0.5999
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 30.1
- Age
- 26
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV95110.996
- Deserved (xVal)0.44690
- Got (aVal)0.39974
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03783
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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
Under contractA 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
- $14.11M
- Tax hit
- $26.25M
- Service time
- 4 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $289M
The deal 11 years $288.7M (2024–2034) — $26.2M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 11 yr/$288.7M (24-34)+opt · agent Octagon · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $20.1M | $31.1M | $36.1M | $36.1M |
| Tax hit | $26.3M | $26.3M | $26.3M | $26.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $26.3M
- Guaranteed
- $288.8M
- Term
- 11 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 | 2035 | 2036 | 2037 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $13.0M | $19.0M | $30.0M | $35.0M | $35.0M | $35.0M | $35.0M | $35.0M | $35.0M | $33.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M |
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 two sources disagree
MLB Spreadsheets has this deal at 11 yr, $288,777,777 (); Cot’s has it at 11 yr, $288,700,000 (). They are $77,777 apart on the same number of years.
We do not adjudicate. Both readings are cited and dated, and this is 19 of the 849 deals we could compare — the other 830 agree to the dollar.
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.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — +0.015 from a baseline of 0.3878 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
ON TRACK62 balls in play since we filedBASELINE 0.3878MOVED +0.0112 · MODEL WANTED +0.0077TARGET 0.4028Tracking. The gap is closing about as fast as we said it would.
A progress reading, not a forecast.
Nothing here has been graded yet — not because we have been wrong, but because no window has closed. The first one closes , and it will be counted either way.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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The Bureau on Bobby Witt Jr.
The scouting press, in their own words
Back to back days with a homer for Bobby Witt Jr. https://t.co/O60UL2cr2P
Reid Detmers strikes out Bobby Witt Jr., Jac Caglionone and Salvador Perez - all swinging - in the seventh. 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 10 K for Detmers. He's thrown just 75 pitches. Angels 0, Royals 0, mid 7.
Umpire favor
+0.7 net runs over 40 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 150 | 591 | 82 | 150 | 20 | 80 | 30 | 30 | 135 | .254 | .722 |
| 2023 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 158 | 641 | 97 | 177 | 30 | 96 | 49 | 40 | 121 | .276 | .814 |
| 2024 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 161 | 636 | 125 | 211 | 32 | 109 | 31 | 57 | 106 | .332 | .977 |
| 2025 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 157 | 623 | 99 | 184 | 23 | 88 | 38 | 49 | 125 | .295 | .852 |
| 2026 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 115 | 448 | 72 | 129 | 16 | 48 | 35 | 55 | 90 | .288 | .824 |
| MLB CAREER | 741 | 2939 | 475 | 851 | 121 | 421 | 183 | 231 | 577 | .290 | .841 | ||
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