MLB · 1B · San Diego Padres
Gavin Sheets
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 235 lb · born Lutherville, MD, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd 2 · played 1B 43, LF 38, DH 32, RF 4 · MLB debut 2021-06-29
419 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Gavin Sheets, a 30-year-old left-handed first baseman from Lutherville, Maryland, has 82 career home runs across 705 games. Over his last two MLB games he posted a 1.143 OPS with one homer — a short, loud reminder of the power that has always been there.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Sheets here — The Buzz October 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.
- EV95106.865
- Deserved (xVal)0.35237
- Got (aVal)0.33534
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00046
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
- $5.50M
- Tax hit
- $5.50M
- Service time
- 5 yr 76 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Covenant Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | 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, 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
- $4.50M
- Guaranteed
- $4.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Collect Gavin Sheets
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The Bureau on Gavin Sheets
The scouting press, in their own words
A.J. doing whatever he can to take the bat out of Gavin Sheets' hands
Umpire favor
+2.9 net runs over 54 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Gavin Sheets’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 0-1
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · SD vs. MIL · 0-1, 1 BB
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 1-1, HR, 2 RBI
The line
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