Chandler Simpson

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FlagshipChandler Simpson #HA-50 · 2025 Topps Update Homefield Advantage · 272 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Chandler Simpson is 25, a left-handed left fielder from Atlanta, a competitive-balance pick in 2022 who debuted in April of 2025, and he's the fastest man on this page — 29.4 sprint speed, 90 career steals, 46 this season alone, second in baseball. He's hitting .306, fourth in the league, with zero home runs across 260 career games. The engine doesn't trust it. His EV95 is 98.2, more than seven ticks below the median of 105.8, and his luck gap of 0.0634 puts him No. 9 on the fade board. Simpson's whole game is putting the ball somewhere a middle infielder isn't and outrunning the throw, and the speed is genuinely elite. But you can't steal first, and over 531 balls in play the contact quality doesn't support a .306 average. Speed keeps you close; it doesn't close a gap this wide.

Note written Oct 10 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Simpson's results are outrunning his contact by more than 98% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 98.2 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 9 of 15 on the fade board.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

98.2

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0634

Overlay score

-0.8493

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.3

Balls in play

531

Sprint (ft/s)

29.4

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of December 16, 2023.

2026 salary

—est

Tax hit

—

Service time

1 yr 140 d

Options left

2 / 3

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.79M

Guaranteed

$0.79M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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 Chandler Simpson

The scouting press, in their own words