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Carter Jensen
B/T L/R · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Kansas City, MO, USA · age 23 · draft 2021 rd 3 · played C 86, DH 42 · MLB debut 2025-09-02
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 11 G · .263 AVG · 3 HR · 6 RBI · .922 OPS
525 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
3-4, HR, 3B, 2B, 3 RBI — Thu, Sep 3 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard →
2-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB — Wed, Sep 2 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipCarter Jensen [Red Rookie Variation] #66 · 2026 Bowman · 367 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
The rookieCarter Jensen #668 · 2025 Topps Now · 30 recent sales 7N ▼0.5%
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Scout’s note
Carter Jensen, 23, is a Kansas City native — a 2021 third-round pick who debuted this September — and the catching job comes with growing pains: 10 strikeouts and a .167 average over his last 11 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Jensen here — The Buzz September 4, 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.
- EV95109.188
- Deserved (xVal)0.39163
- Got (aVal)0.41484
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03211
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
- $0.78Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.78M
- Service time
- 0 yr 28 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$781,150 (26) · agent EVOLV
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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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 Carter Jensen
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
The Bureau on Carter Jensen
The scouting press, in their own words
Carter Jensen with his 3rd homer in the last two games! #FountainsUp https://t.co/xMKYTQBdTw
Umpire favor
+2.6 net runs over 65 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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