MLB · SS · Minnesota Twins
Kaelen Culpepper
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 185 lb · born Memphis, TN, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played SS 83, DH 10, 3B 9, 2B 4 · MLB debut 2026-08-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-27): 2 G · .167 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .334 OPS
155 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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Scout’s note
Kaelen Culpepper is a 23-year-old shortstop from Memphis, a 2024 first-round pick who debuted in August and has hit .283 across his first 30 MLB games. Over his last 12 MLB games he has slipped to .238 with eight strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.22Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.22M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | 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.
The Wire
▼ On the field: Twins activate Kaelen Culpepper from the 10-day IL and place Jeff Hoffman on the 15-day IL with a forearm issue.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-09-28 · newest post 2026-09-26 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Kaelen Culpepper
The scouting press, in their own words
Kaelen Culpepper meets his favorite player: Albert Pujols. https://t.co/D7wqGj5rRl
Umpire favor
-1.6 net runs over 10 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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