MLB · SS · Seattle Mariners
Colt Emerson
B/T L/R · 6' 0" · 195 lb · born Zanesville, OH, USA · age 21 · draft 2023 rd 1 · played SS 87, 3B 20, DH 1 · MLB debut 2026-05-17
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-20): 7 G · .100 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .200 OPS
Injured 10-Day · Left wrist tendon inflammation. (roster status, as of )
241 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipColt Emerson #PA-CE · 2024 Bowman Sterling Prospect Autograph · 309 recent sales 7N ▲0%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Colt Emerson is a 21-year-old shortstop from Zanesville, OH, taken in the first round in 2023. He's hitting .190 across 69 games, and his last seven have been worse — a .100 average with 11 strikeouts and no walks.
We wrote about Emerson here — The Buzz August 3, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV95104.428
- Deserved (xVal)0.36141
- Got (aVal)0.34641
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00551
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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
Under contractA 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
- $2.00M
- Tax hit
- $11.88M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $95M
The deal 8 years $95M (2026–2033), club option for 2034 — $11.9M 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: 8 y/$95M (26-33)+34 cl opt · agent ACES · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $3.0M | $10.0M | $13.0M | $15.0M |
| Tax hit | $11.9M | $11.9M | $11.9M | $11.9M |
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
- $11.9M
- Guaranteed
- $95.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $2.0M | $9.0M | $12.0M | $14.0M | $15.0M | $16.0M | $18.0M | $25.0M |
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.
Collect Colt Emerson
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Umpire favor
+1.8 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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