Brett Bateman

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Scout’s note

Brett Bateman is a 24-year-old left-handed center fielder from St. Paul, Minnesota, taken in the eighth round of the 2023 draft and debuted this past August. The engine loves the speed — a 28.8 sprint — but the bat is running ahead of itself. His EV95 of 100.28 is nearly six mph below the league median, softer than almost any qualified hitter we track, yet his results on contact outrun the physics further than 99% of the sample, a luck gap of 0.0849. He is hitting .329 with an .826 OPS in 41 games for Toronto, and over his last six MLB games he is at .375 with a 1.000 OPS, but those numbers are buying more than a 100.28 EV95 usually purchases. He ranks 2nd of 15 on the fade board, and the read is that the average will find its level.

Note written Oct 3 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Bateman's results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 100.3 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 2 of 15 on the fade board.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

100.28

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0849

Overlay score

-0.9211

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.9

Balls in play

125

Sprint (ft/s)

28.8

Age

24

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of September 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.22Mest

Tax hit

$0.22M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Toronto Blue Jays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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

△ On the field: Brett Bateman exits with injury after a sliding catch.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-09-23 · newest post 2026-09-22 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

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