MLB · 3B · Detroit Tigers
Colt Keith
B/T L/R · 6' 2" · 211 lb · born Zanesville, OH, USA · age 25 · draft 2020 rd 5 · played 3B 66, DH 50, 1B 18 · MLB debut 2024-03-28
423 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Colt Keith's three-homer game — Colt Keith hit three home runs. Three home runs by one man in one game. Read it →
Scout’s note
Colt Keith is a 25-year-old third baseman out of Zanesville, Ohio, a fifth-round pick in 2020 who reached Detroit on opening day 2024. Through 425 big-league games he's hit .258 with 36 home runs — a league-average bat (.719 OPS) settling into the corner.
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.
- EV95105.647
- Deserved (xVal)0.39466
- Got (aVal)0.36254
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02473
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $4.33M
- Tax hit
- $4.77M
- Service time
- 3 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $29M
The deal 6 years $28.6M (2024–2029) — $4.8M 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: 6 y/$28,642,500 (24-29)+opts · agent Munger English · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $5.3M | $5.3M | $2.6M | — |
| Tax hit | $4.8M | $4.8M | $4.8M | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $4.8M
- Guaranteed
- $28.6M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $4.0M | $4.0M | $5.0M | $5.0M | $10.0M | $13.0M | $15.0M |
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.
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
+1.7 net runs over 55 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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