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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 157, CF 1 · MLB debut 2025-03-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-04): 7 G · .200 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · .693 OPS
568 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Smith, a 23-year-old right fielder from Lake Worth, Florida, has 284 strikeouts in 290 big-league games. His last 14 days in the majors were brutal: .081 with 15 strikeouts in 11 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95109.289
- Deserved (xVal)0.39767
- Got (aVal)0.35951
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03585
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
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
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | 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, 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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Cam Smith launches a 440-foot homer to pull the Astros within two runs.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-01 · newest post 2026-09-30 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Cam Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
FINAL: White Sox 6, Astros 3 Battle of the bullpen game goes to Chicago, which got three scoreless from rookie Hagen Smith and scored in four of the first five innings. White Sox looking to win their first playoff series since the 2005 World Series and have two chances to do it.
I (incorrectly) wanted the Cardinals to take Hagen Smith in the 2024 draft but he didn’t make it that far. They ended up with JJ though!
Random JJ interest. Feel free to ignore. As a massive Elliott Smith fan, I recommend "Nobody Broke Your Heart" wholeheartedly to other fans. It's both the best/most complete biography I imagine we will ever get of him, and an extremely thoughtful and well-crafted read.
Umpire favor
+5.3 net runs over 64 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Cam Smith’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 Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 1-3, HR, 1 RBI
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 1-4
The line
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