MLB · 1B · Houston Astros
Christian Walker
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 208 lb · born Norristown, PA, USA · age 35 · draft 2012 rd 4 · played 1B 154, DH 2 · MLB debut 2014-09-17
635 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
200 career home runs — Tue, Sep 22 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard → · The write-up →
500 career runs scored — Sat, Mar 28 · night game vs. Los Angeles Angels The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipChristian Walker #144 · 2015 Bowman · 18 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieChristian Walker #AR-CW · 2015 Topps Chrome Autograph Rookies · 29 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Christian Walker, 35, from Norristown, PA, has 203 career home runs and a .773 OPS across 1,142 games. His last four MLB games: .429 average, three homers, 1.643 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Walker here — The Overnight: 200 career home runs (September 22, 2026) · The Buzz August 15, 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.
- EV95108.281
- Deserved (xVal)0.36950
- Got (aVal)0.37460
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00837
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
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
- $20.00M
- Tax hit
- $20.00M
- Service time
- 8 yr 124 d
- Guaranteed
- $60M
The deal 3 years $60M (2025–2027) — $20.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 3 y/$60M (25-27) · agent CAA · 0 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 8.124 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
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
- $20.0M
- Guaranteed
- $60.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $20.0M | $20.0M |
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: Christian Walker and Cam Smith named Gold Glove finalists.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-16 · newest post 2026-10-14 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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Umpire favor
+2.4 net runs over 66 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Christian Walker’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 Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-4
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-2, 2 BB
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →