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Cam Smith
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 224 lb · born Lake Worth, FL, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played RF 127, CF 1 · MLB debut 2025-03-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-23): 11 G · .171 AVG · 2 HR · 6 RBI · .562 OPS
471 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
3-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI — Fri, Aug 7 · night game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipCam Smith [Refractor] #BDC-67 · 2024 Bowman Draft Chrome · 281 recent sales 7N ▲0%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Cam Smith is a 23-year-old right fielder from Lake Worth, Florida, a 2024 first-round pick already in his second big-league season with Houston, and his 246 career strikeouts against a .229 average tell you the swing-and-miss is still the story even with 25 home runs.
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.
- EV95109.592
- Deserved (xVal)0.40271
- Got (aVal)0.35650
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.04287
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
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
- $0.81Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.81M
- Service time
- 1 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$809,900 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
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, Houston Astros.
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
- $0.81M
- Guaranteed
- $0.81M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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 Cam Smith
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The Bureau on Cam Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
Podcast https://t.co/JJA9xRnLN1 @JakePeavy_22 talks Skenes, Max Scherzer/Justin Verlander, a team the Dodgers should fear; @SlangsOnSports Numbers Game; @PaulHembo brings the heat with shocking George Lombard Jr. numbers, Will Smith, Julio Rodriguez, Skenes analysis.
A year ago, Smith may have been the headliner. Now he's a toolsy lotto ticket having a rough year. Pitre and Gill Hill have skill sets that should at least give them a good chance at filling an MLB role. Pitre has great bat to ball & speed, Gill Hill throws a ton of strikes. https://t.co/cotaCxBTqX
Umpire favor
+3.6 net runs over 42 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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