MLB · 3B · Baltimore Orioles
Christian Encarnacion-Strand
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 224 lb · born Walnut Creek, CA, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 4 · played 3B 154, DH 24, 1B 21 · MLB debut 2023-07-17
213 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
3-4, HR, 1 RBI — Tue, Aug 11 · night game vs. Minnesota Twins The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Christian Encarnacion-Strand, 26, from Walnut Creek, California, was a fourth-round pick in 2021 and debuted with the Reds in July 2023 before landing in Baltimore. He has 32 home runs and 111 RBIs in 186 career games with a .726 OPS — real thump for a corner profile, even with 191 strikeouts.
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.
- EV95108.179
- Deserved (xVal)0.44891
- Got (aVal)0.46395
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02517
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.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 141 now.
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.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 86 d
- Options left
- 1 / 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, Baltimore Orioles.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- 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.
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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Umpire favor
-1.3 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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