MLB · RF · San Diego Padres
Fernando Tatis Jr.
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 217 lb · born San Pedro De Macoris, Dominican Republic · age 27 · played RF 99, 2B 43, DH 1 · MLB debut 2019-03-28
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 12 G · .327 AVG · 5 HR · 12 RBI · 1.064 OPS
582 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
500 career runs scored — Tue, Jun 9 · night game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
4-5, 2 HR, 4 RBI — Sun, Aug 23 · day game vs. Minnesota Twins The scorecard →
2-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Tue, Aug 18 · night game vs. New York Mets The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipTony Gwynn / Fernando Tatis Jr. #55DH-14 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum 1955 Double Header · 357 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
The rookieFernando Tatis Jr. #410 · 2019 Topps · 1078 recent sales 7N ▲1.8%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Tatis signed out of San Pedro De Macoris, Dominican Republic and owns a career .278 average with 169 home runs across 803 big-league games. Our engine reads the results as running behind the bat; that gap is the breakout signal, and it was validated on a pre-registered holdout before we trusted it.
We wrote about Jr. here — The Buzz August 24, 2026 · August 19, 2026 · August 12, 2026 · July 22, 2026 · and 1 more
Current signals
The read: Tatis is hitting the ball harder than 98% of the 375 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 111.8; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 81% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 18 of 20 on the breakout board.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 111.8
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0316
- Overlay score
- 0.5986
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 28.9
- Age
- 27
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 375 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.
- EV95111.898
- Deserved (xVal)0.44188
- Got (aVal)0.39270
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03280
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
- $20.71M
- Tax hit
- $24.29M
- Service time
- 6 yr 120 d
- Guaranteed
- $340M
The deal 14 years $340M (2021–2034) — $24.3M 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: 14 y/$340M (21-34) · agent Roc Nation · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $20.7M | $25.7M | $36.7M | $36.7M |
| Tax hit | $24.3M | $24.3M | $24.3M | $24.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $24.3M
- Guaranteed
- $340.0M
- Term
- 14 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $20.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M |
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 Fernando Tatis Jr.
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The Bureau on Fernando Tatis Jr.
The scouting press, in their own words
Right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres has been named the National League Player of the Week, and shortstop Zach Neto of the Los Angeles Angels has been selected the American League Player of the Week.
Fernando Tatis Jr. in his last 81 games: .303/.375/.511, 15 HR, 45 RBI. 18 SB https://t.co/Y25Dl7PY5m
Fernando Tatis Jr. moved into 2nd place on the Padres’ all-time home run list with 164 HRs. https://t.co/Dd4iWXU6Y5
Umpire favor
+2.0 net runs over 50 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 84 | 334 | 61 | 106 | 22 | 53 | 16 | 30 | 110 | .317 | .969 |
| 2020 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 59 | 224 | 50 | 62 | 17 | 45 | 11 | 27 | 61 | .277 | .937 |
| 2021 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 130 | 478 | 99 | 135 | 42 | 97 | 25 | 62 | 153 | .282 | .975 |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 141 | 575 | 91 | 148 | 25 | 78 | 29 | 53 | 141 | .257 | .771 |
| 2024 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 102 | 398 | 64 | 110 | 21 | 49 | 11 | 32 | 96 | .276 | .832 |
| 2025 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 155 | 594 | 111 | 159 | 25 | 71 | 32 | 89 | 129 | .268 | .814 |
| 2026 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 132 | 516 | 75 | 147 | 17 | 67 | 30 | 54 | 108 | .285 | .801 |
| MLB CAREER | 803 | 3119 | 551 | 867 | 169 | 460 | 154 | 347 | 798 | .278 | .856 | ||
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