MLB · C · Texas Rangers
Kyle Higashioka
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 202 lb · born Huntington Beach, CA, USA · age 36 · draft 2008 rd 7 · played C 48, DH 17, P 3 · MLB debut 2017-04-10
238 plate appearances & 18 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A 36-year-old catcher from Huntington Beach, 2008 seventh-rounder with 75 career home runs in 550 games. Kyle Higashioka's last two weeks came at AAA — three games, a .417 average, and a 1.129 OPS.
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.
- EV95105.344
- Deserved (xVal)0.37453
- Got (aVal)0.35246
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01464
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
- $6.8M
- Guaranteed
- $13.5M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $6.8M | $7.0M |
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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Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 23 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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