MLB · CF · Atlanta Braves
Lane Thomas
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 195 lb · born Knoxville, TN, USA · age 31 · draft 2014 rd 5 · played CF 63, LF 52, RF 52, DH 14 · MLB debut 2019-04-17
374 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Knoxville's Lane Thomas, 31, a 2014 fifth-rounder now in left for Atlanta. Across 719 big-league games he's hit .239 with 87 home runs and 80 steals — a useful, well-traveled corner bat who's been around enough to know who he is.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Thomas here — The Buzz August 2, 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.
- EV95107.168
- Deserved (xVal)0.36244
- Got (aVal)0.36152
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00837
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
- $5.25M
- Guaranteed
- $5.25M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $5.3M |
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 Lane Thomas
The scouting press, in their own words
Lane Thomas: 1 PA short Anthony Kay: 2 IP short Cionel Perez: 1 GP Tatsuya Imai: 3.1 IP
Umpire favor
+1.2 net runs over 44 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Lane Thomas’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-1
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · ATL vs. LAD · 1-3
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-2
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-1
The line
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