MLB · 3B · Boston Red Sox
Caleb Durbin
B/T R/R · 5' 6" · 183 lb · born Lake Forest, IL, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 14 · played 3B 128 · MLB debut 2025-04-18
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 13 G · .250 AVG · 0 HR · 2 RBI · .583 OPS
507 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Caleb Durbin, a 14th-round pick from Lake Forest, Illinois, playing third for Boston. He's driven in 15 runs over his last 13 games with a .313 average — well above the .254 he's hit across 253 career games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Durbin here — The Buzz August 7, 2026 · August 5, 2026 · July 21, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95102.07
- Deserved (xVal)0.2935
- Got (aVal)0.32021
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03012
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
- $0.80Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.80M
- Service time
- 0 yr 164 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$796,000 (26)
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, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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.
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The Bureau on Caleb Durbin
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox with no Anthony, no Story vs. Schlittler: Sogard SS Rafaela CF Abreu RF Contreras 1B Rutschman C Durbin 3B Gasper DH Duran LF Seigler 2B
Durbin, Duran and Monasterio due up for the Red Sox in the ninth. Dylan Smith is back for more. Seigler is available on the bench, too.
Umpire favor
+2.9 net runs over 62 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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