MLB · CF · Milwaukee Brewers
Luis Lara
B/T S/R · 5' 7" · 169 lb · born San Felipe, Venezuela · age 21 · played CF 79, RF 43, DH 2, LF 1 · MLB debut 2026-07-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 12 G · .375 AVG · 1 HR · 8 RBI · .905 OPS
151 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Luis Lara is a 21-year-old switch-hitting right fielder from San Felipe, Venezuela, who debuted in July. He is batting .302 across his last 13 MLB games, and for a kid that young, holding his own is the whole story.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95103.012
- Deserved (xVal)0.36646
- Got (aVal)0.36857
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01032
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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 104 now.
What he’s paid
Under contractA 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
- $2.29M
- Tax hit
- $4.43M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $31M
The deal 7 years $31M (2026–2032), unspecified option for 2033, unspecified option for 2034, unspecified option for 2035 — $4.4M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 7 y/$31M (26-32)+33-35 opts · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $2.3M | $3.3M | $4.3M | $5.3M |
| Tax hit | $4.4M | $4.4M | $4.4M | $4.4M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Milwaukee Brewers.
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
- $4.3M
- Guaranteed
- $31.0M
- Term
- 7 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 | 2035 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $2.0M | $2.0M | $3.0M | $4.0M | $5.0M | $6.0M | $7.0M | $10.0M | $11.0M | $12.0M |
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.
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 Lara
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The Bureau on Luis Lara
The scouting press, in their own words
Equivalents of LAD package for Skubal? Probably… Brewers - Logan Henderson, Luis Lara or Jefferson Quero, JD Thompson Rays - Brody Hopkins or Michael Forret, Brayden Taylor, Trevor Harrison Cubs - Ben Brown, Josiah Hartshorn or Pedro Ramirez, Brooks Caple
Umpire favor
-1.7 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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