MLB · CF · Houston Astros
Lucas Spence
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 195 lb · born Chicago Heights, IL, USA · age 23 · played CF 76, RF 26, LF 10, DH 7 · MLB debut 2026-07-17
210 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Lucas Spence's three-homer game — Lucas Spence hit three home runs. Three home runs by one man in one game. Read it →
The Line of the Day
3-4, 3 HR, 5 RBI — Thu, Sep 24 · night game vs. Athletics The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Lucas Spence, a 23-year-old left-handed center fielder from Chicago Heights, debuted in mid-July and has just 14 big-league games to his name. His recent AAA stretch tells a different story — 11 games, a .974 OPS and four home runs with more walks than strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Spence here — The Buzz September 25, 2026
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 23 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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.
Collect Lucas Spence
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Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 11 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The postseason
Lucas Spence’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.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-4
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 1-4, 1 R
The line
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