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Chase DeLauter
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 235 lb · born Frederick, MD, USA · age 25 · draft 2022 rd 1 · played RF 68, DH 60 · MLB debut 2025-10-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-10): 1 G · .250 AVG · 1 HR · 1 RBI · 1.400 OPS
559 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipChase DeLauter [Red Rookie Variation] #37 · 2026 Bowman · 201 recent sales 7N ▼1.1%
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The rookieChase DeLauter #35 · 2026 Topps Finest · 250 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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Scout’s note
Chase DeLauter, a first-round pick out of Frederick, Maryland, is a 25-year-old corner outfielder who debuted this October and has already put up a .287 average with a .820 OPS across 133 games. The power is real — 16 homers, 67 RBI — and the strikeouts are manageable for a young lefty bat.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about DeLauter here — The Buzz July 25, 2026 · The Overnight: 4-for-4, 2 2B, BB, 2 RBI (May 1, 2026)
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.
- EV95107.776
- Deserved (xVal)0.38057
- Got (aVal)0.38567
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01233
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
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Cleveland Guardians.
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Guardians erupt for six runs in the sixth on hits from Bazzana, Bailey, DeLauter and Adell.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-11 · newest post 2026-10-09 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
Collect Chase DeLauter
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Umpire favor
+8.3 net runs over 68 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Chase DeLauter’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 Division Series, Game 5 · CLE vs. CWS · 1-4
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CLE vs. CWS · 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 BB
- AL Division Series, Game 3 · CLE vs. CWS · 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CLE vs. CWS · 2-4, 1 R
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CLE vs. CWS · 0-4
The line
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