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 129, 1B 20 · MLB debut 2016-07-08
631 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 switch-hitting designated hitter from Irving, Texas, taken in the second round in 2011. In 1,441 major-league games he has hit 214 home runs with a .780 OPS and 772 RBI — real power paired with real swing-and-miss, 1,086 strikeouts on the ledger.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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)0.40473
- Got (aVal)0.36656
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02676
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
- $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.
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 Josh Bell
The scouting press, in their own words
PLive Card of the Day Number 121: A 2017 Topps Opening Day rookie card of Josh Bell Now in his eleventh MLB season after getting drafted in the second round by Pittsburgh back in 2011, Bell has put together a solid career as a middle-of-the-order journeyman. The switch-hitter https://t.co/2WwxfxUaq4
Umpire favor
+4.7 net runs over 68 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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