MLB · 2B · Worcester Red Sox (BOS)
Isiah Kiner-Falefa
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 195 lb · born Honolulu, HI, USA · age 31 · draft 2013 rd 4 · played 2B 30, SS 18, 3B 9, DH 2, +1 more · MLB debut 2018-04-10
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 7 G · .182 AVG · 0 HR · 1 RBI · .584 OPS
173 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, the Honolulu-born second baseman in his ninth big-league season, has played 967 games and holds a .263 average with 107 steals for Boston. He's a durable utility man whose glove has always paid the rent; the bat, at a .661 career OPS, just keeps the lights on.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95103.318
- Deserved (xVal)0.32219
- Got (aVal)0.32626
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00735
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $6.00M
- Tax hit
- $6.00M
- Service time
- 8 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $6M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$6M (26) · agent ALIGND
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 8.000 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
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
- $6.00M
- Guaranteed
- $6.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $6.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Isiah Kiner-Falefa
The scouting press, in their own words
Chad Tracy said it's highly likely Isiah Kiner-Falefa is one of the two roster adds tomorrow. The other will be a pitcher, obviously.
“I understand how things move with the roster. We’ve got a lot of quality guys, guys who have done things and don’t deserve to come down or be DFA.” Isiah Kiner-Falefa offers to save the Red Sox a tough roster decision by spending the week in Worcester: https://t.co/qgwHpGsNvz
Isiah Kiner-Falefa says he plans to be in Worcester for at least a few more days and that he is comfortable being added back when rosters expand on September 1.
Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 13 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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