MLB · 3B · Boston Red Sox
Curtis Mead
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 225 lb · born Adelaide, Australia · age 25 · played 3B 48, 1B 34, 2B 14, DH 5 · MLB debut 2023-08-04
329 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Curtis Mead is a 25-year-old third baseman from Adelaide, Australia, and in 240 big-league games he has put up a .709 OPS with 22 home runs. That is a useful bat at third, and the reason he is still playing.
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.
- EV95106.258
- Deserved (xVal)0.41477
- Got (aVal)0.40982
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00244
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
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
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 94 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | 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, Boston Red Sox.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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 Curtis Mead
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox notebook covers Curtis Mead's role, Jason Varitek's future, the coaching staff, some info on Garrett Crochet's shoulder and more: https://t.co/dmVamJmHE7
Umpire favor
+1.0 net runs over 46 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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