MLB · DH · Minnesota Twins
Josh Bell
B/T S/R · 6' 3" · 261 lb · born Irving, TX, USA · age 34 · draft 2011 rd 2 · played DH 106, 1B 20 · MLB debut 2016-07-08
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 11 G · .282 AVG · 1 HR · 11 RBI · .784 OPS
547 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Gavin Williams' immaculate inning — Gavin Williams struck out the side on nine pitches. Only two of them were in the strike zone. Read it →
On the record · career milestone this season
200 career home runs — Tue, Jun 9 · night game vs. Detroit Tigers The scorecard → · The write-up →
Scout’s note
Josh Bell is a 34-year-old switch-hitting DH out of Irving, Texas, drafted in the second round in 2011 and up since 2016, with 210 career home runs. Over his last 11 MLB games he has driven in 11 and batted .282.
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.
- EV95107.169
- Deserved (xVal)0.39968
- Got (aVal)0.36958
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01968
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
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
- $5.75M
- Tax hit
- $7.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 53 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $7M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$7M (26)+27 m opt · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $1.3M |
| 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, Minnesota Twins.
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
- $7.00M
- Guaranteed
- $7.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.5M | $10.0M |
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 Josh Bell
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Umpire favor
+4.0 net runs over 57 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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