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 50, RF 50, DH 14 · MLB debut 2019-04-17
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 11 G · .182 AVG · 0 HR · 1 RBI · .477 OPS
368 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Lane Thomas, out of Knoxville, has 87 home runs and 78 steals across 706 games — a center fielder who does a bit of everything. The last two weeks he's batting .214, but his .884 OPS tells you he's still producing.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Thomas here — The Buzz August 2, 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.
- EV95107.168
- Deserved (xVal)0.36445
- Got (aVal)0.36454
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00934
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
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
- $1.57M
- Tax hit
- $1.57M
- Service time
- 6 yr 14 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $5.3M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$5.25M (26) · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 6.014 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
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.
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.
Collect Lane Thomas
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Umpire favor
+2.0 net runs over 42 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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