MLB · 3B · Toronto Blue Jays
Kazuma Okamoto
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Gojo, Japan · age 30 · played 3B 143, 1B 14, DH 3 · MLB debut 2026-03-27
636 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipKazuma Okamoto #WST-6 · 2026 Topps Chrome Wild Style · 639 recent sales 7N ▼10.9%
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Scout’s note
Kazuma Okamoto, from Gojo, Japan, has 33 home runs and 92 RBI in his first 156 major-league games. The average sits at .232 and the strikeouts at 183, but the power played the moment he arrived.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Okamoto here — The Buzz July 25, 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.
- EV95108.079
- Deserved (xVal)0.44188
- Got (aVal)0.42987
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00552
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.
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
- $17.25M
- Tax hit
- $15.00M
- Service time
- 1 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $60M
The deal 4 years $60M (2026–2029) — $15.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 4 y/$60M (26-29) · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $17.3M | $17.3M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $15.0M | $15.0M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Toronto Blue Jays.
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
- $15.0M
- Guaranteed
- $60.0M
- Term
- 4 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $7.0M | $16.0M | $16.0M | $16.0M |
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: 2026 rookie extra-base hit leaders: Carter Jensen 64, Kazuma Okamoto 59, Sal Stewart 57.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-20 · newest post 2026-10-19 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Kazuma Okamoto
The scouting press, in their own words
2026 Rookie Extra-Base Hits Leaders. 1. Carter Jensen 64 2. Kazuma Okamoto 59 3. Sal Stewart 57 4. Munetaka Murakami 52 5. Kevin McGonigle 51 6. Chase DeLauter 49 6. TJ Rumfield 49 8. Tristian Peters 47 9. Carson Benge 45 10. Bryce Eldridge 40 10. Travis Bazzana 40 https://t.co/BPGRWdHR5c
Umpire favor
+1.9 net runs over 71 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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