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Carson Kelly
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 212 lb · born Chicago, IL, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd 2 · played C 105, DH 6, 1B 4, P 3 · MLB debut 2016-09-05
425 plate appearances & 13 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Carson Kelly is a 32-year-old catcher born in Chicago, drafted in the second round back in 2012. He has played 790 major-league games with 81 home runs and a .234 career average.
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.
- EV95104.734
- Deserved (xVal)0.34533
- Got (aVal)0.33734
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00148
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.
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
- $5.8M
- Guaranteed
- $11.5M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.0M | $7.5M |
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 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
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The Bureau on Carson Kelly
The scouting press, in their own words
Asked around about some of the under-the-radar free agents this winter. Alec Bohm came up plenty. Carson Kelly and Tyler Stephenson will be in demand from team’s needing catching. Here’s other names that I heard: https://t.co/5dXlBruNeY
Umpire favor
+2.4 net runs over 43 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Carson Kelly’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.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 1-3
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CHC vs. SD · 0-3
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →