MLB · CF · Baltimore Orioles
Colton Cowser
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 220 lb · born Houston, TX, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 1 · played CF 94, RF 26, LF 10, DH 2 · MLB debut 2023-07-05
392 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A first-round pick from Houston in 2021, Cowser has 53 home runs in 413 big-league games despite a career .219 average, and over his last nine MLB games he's hitting .345 with zero of those home runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Cowser here — The Buzz September 1, 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.
- EV95108.683
- Deserved (xVal)0.40975
- Got (aVal)0.39171
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00855
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.
- 2026 salary
- $3.00M
- Tax hit
- $3.00M
- Service time
- 3 yr 43 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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
+2.5 net runs over 49 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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