MLB · 1B · Milwaukee Brewers
Jake Bauers
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 216 lb · born Newport Beach, CA, USA · age 31 · draft 2013 rd 7 · played 1B 119, RF 32, LF 16, DH 4 · MLB debut 2018-06-07
578 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jake Bauers is a 31-year-old left-handed first baseman out of Newport Beach, California, a seventh-round pick in 2013 who debuted in 2018. Over his last five MLB games he hit .200 with ten strikeouts and no home runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Bauers here — The Buzz October 16, 2026 · October 15, 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.
- EV95109.088
- Deserved (xVal)0.47895
- Got (aVal)0.46896
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00349
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.
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
- $2.70M
- Guaranteed
- $2.70M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
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The Bureau on Jake Bauers
The scouting press, in their own words
One funny outcome of the Brewers, Guards, and Rays being left is that their similar philosophies and financials mean many of their players once played for the other orgs. Bauers, Peralta, Diaz, Caminero, Lowe, etc.
Honored to interview the MVP. Jake Bauers. What a story. https://t.co/8SOe42oBsi
Jake Bauers named NLCS MVP. 412 AVG, 1 HR and 6 RBI. https://t.co/ymfjDHDYQ9
Umpire favor
+3.9 net runs over 76 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Jake Bauers’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 League Championship Series, Game 4 · MIL vs. LAD · 1-3, 2B, 3 RBI, 1 BB
- NL League Championship Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. LAD · 1-4, HR, 2 RBI
- NL League Championship Series, Game 2 · MIL vs. LAD · 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 BB
- NL League Championship Series, Game 1 · MIL vs. LAD · 1-3, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · MIL vs. SD · 1-1, 1 R, 3 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. SD · 0-4, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · MIL vs. SD · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · MIL vs. SD · 2-3
The line
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