MLB · 3B · Toronto Blue Jays
Kazuma Okamoto
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Gojo, Japan · age 30 · played 3B 121, 1B 13, DH 2 · MLB debut 2026-03-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 12 G · .262 AVG · 4 HR · 7 RBI · 1.003 OPS
550 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Third baseman Okamoto came over from Gojo, Japan, and the power is real — 24 home runs in 121 games — but so are the whiffs: 152 strikeouts, and the last two weeks have gone cold, with no homers and 16 strikeouts in 12 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Okamoto here — The Buzz July 25, 2026
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.
- EV95108.179
- Deserved (xVal)0.43886
- Got (aVal)0.42687
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00551
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
- $8.25M
- Tax hit
- $15.00M
- Service time
- 0 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $17.3M | $17.3M | $17.3M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $15.0M | $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.
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Umpire favor
+2.0 net runs over 58 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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