MLB · 2B · Seattle Mariners
Cole Young
B/T L/R · 5' 10" · 180 lb · born Pittsburgh, PA, USA · age 23 · draft 2022 rd 1 · played 2B 134, SS 3 · MLB debut 2025-05-31
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 12 G · .070 AVG · 1 HR · 1 RBI · .347 OPS
565 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Cole Young, a first-rounder out of Pittsburgh, is a 23-year-old lefty-hitting second baseman with a .244 career average through 202 games. His last 12 MLB games were rough — .182 with a .500 OPS — though he still drove in five.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95106.662
- Deserved (xVal)0.35537
- Got (aVal)0.33029
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01362
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
- $0.79Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.79M
- Service time
- 0 yr 121 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$786,100 (26)
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, Seattle Mariners.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- 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.
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The Bureau on Cole Young
The scouting press, in their own words
River Ryan has electric stuff. Zyhir Hope has a chance to be a dynamic power-speed outfielder. Brady Smith is a talented young pitcher with a deep arsenal. But for Tarik Skubal, even just for half a season, that’s a trade you make every time with zero hesitation if you’re the
Cole Young is incredibly underrated, but also a 113 wRC+ leading all AL second basemen is crazy. The position is a wasteland right now aside from a few. https://t.co/WaTnjLUIXI
Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 65 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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