MLB · SS · Baltimore Orioles
Gunnar Henderson
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 230 lb · born Montgomery, AL, USA · age 25 · draft 2019 rd 2 · played SS 149, DH 9 · MLB debut 2022-08-31
702 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career home runs — Fri, Jun 12 · night game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
4-4, 2 HR, 3B, 5 RBI — Sun, Aug 30 · day game vs. Athletics The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Gunnar Henderson, the Montgomery, Alabama shortstop Baltimore took in round two in 2019, is 25 and already 655 games into a career with 110 home runs and a .802 OPS. His last 14 days in MLB: a .308 average and .917 OPS across seven games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Henderson here — The Buzz August 31, 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)0.38057
- Got (aVal)0.35649
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01262
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
- $15.75M
- Tax hit
- $15.75M
- Service time
- 4 yr 36 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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
- $8.50M
- Guaranteed
- $8.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Collect Gunnar Henderson
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The Bureau on Gunnar Henderson
The scouting press, in their own words
Equivalents of LAD package for Skubal? Probably… Brewers - Logan Henderson, Luis Lara or Jefferson Quero, JD Thompson Rays - Brody Hopkins or Michael Forret, Brayden Taylor, Trevor Harrison Cubs - Ben Brown, Josiah Hartshorn or Pedro Ramirez, Brooks Caple
Umpire favor
+5.1 net runs over 63 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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