MLB · LF · Kansas City Royals
Matthew Lugo
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 190 lb · born Manati, Puerto Rico · age 25 · draft 2019 rd 2 · played LF 65, RF 60, CF 22, DH 16, +1 more · MLB debut 2025-05-09
93 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A right-handed hitter from Manati, Puerto Rico, Lugo debuted last May and owns a .217 average over 40 MLB games. His last six MLB games tell a harder story: a .091 average with four strikeouts and one walk.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- Service time
- 0 yr 104 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- 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.
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Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 1 graded game — an even shake from the zone this season.
Biggest swings: +0.1
The line
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