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Max Kepler
B/T L/L · 6' 4" · 225 lb · born Berlin, Germany · age 33 · played LF 38, DH 6, CF 1, RF 1 · MLB debut 2015-09-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 6 G · .200 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .450 OPS
139 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
1,000 career hits — Tue, Jul 28 · night game vs. Pittsburgh Pirates The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipMax Kepler #US82 · 2025 Topps Update · 18 recent sales 7N ▲0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
The rookieMax Kepler #138 · 2016 Topps Chrome · 23 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases. · Flagship = his most-traded card (the market’s reference); the rookie = the top card of his first card year. As of September 4, 2026 · trend is FVR's own nightly archive · prices via SportsCardsPro · what these terms mean
Scout’s note
Berlin-born and in the league since 2015, Kepler is in a cold stretch — .115 with no home runs in his last 8 games, though his 4 walks say the discipline hasn't gone.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Kepler here — The Overnight: 1000 career hits (July 28, 2026)
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
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $0.8M |
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 Max Kepler
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Umpire favor
+2.2 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →