MLB · C · San Diego Padres
Luis Campusano
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 232 lb · born Augusta, GA, USA · age 27 · draft 2017 rd 2 · played C 48, DH 3 · MLB debut 2020-09-04
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 8 G · .136 AVG · 0 HR · 3 RBI · .523 OPS
168 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipLuis Campusano #GQA-LCA · 2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Autographs · 42 recent sales 7N ▼1.6%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Luis Campusano was a second-round pick in 2017 out of Augusta, Georgia, and the Padres have waited through injuries and innings limits for the bat to arrive. In some ways it has: .287 with an .862 OPS this season in 51 games, and 100 career RBI in 229 games as a right-handed-hitting catcher. The engine sees a line that is out ahead of its skis. His EV95 of 105.86 is barely above the league median of 105.8 — essentially league-average contact — and the luck gap has him in the 97th percentile, No. 10 on the fade board. He is 27, 232 pounds, with a sprint speed of 25.9 that tells you he earns his runs at the plate and not on the bases. The last two weeks have been rough — .136 average, seven strikeouts in eight games — and if that is the correction arriving, it has a long way to fall.
Current signals
The read: Campusano's results are outrunning his contact by more than 97% of the 375 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 105.9 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 10 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 105.86
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0597
- Overlay score
- -0.4386
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 25.9
- Age
- 27
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 375 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.
- EV95105.950
- Deserved (xVal)0.39968
- Got (aVal)0.44092
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0602
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 105 now.
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
- $0.90M
- Tax hit
- $0.90M
- Service time
- 3 yr 3 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.9M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$900,000 (26) · agent Ballengee
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $0.90M
- Guaranteed
- $0.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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 Luis Campusano
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Umpire favor
-0.2 net runs over 15 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | 1.833 |
| 2021 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 11 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | .088 | .272 |
| 2022 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 16 | 48 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .250 | .593 |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 49 | 163 | 27 | 52 | 7 | 30 | 0 | 7 | 21 | .319 | .847 |
| 2024 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 91 | 277 | 37 | 63 | 8 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 41 | .227 | .642 |
| 2025 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .000 | .222 |
| 2026 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 51 | 143 | 18 | 41 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 37 | .287 | .862 |
| MLB CAREER | 229 | 689 | 88 | 172 | 22 | 100 | 0 | 61 | 134 | .250 | .708 | ||
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