MLB · 3B · Kansas City Royals
Nick Loftin
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 180 lb · born Corpus Christi, TX, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd CB-A · played 3B 62, 2B 33, RF 6, LF 5, +3 more · MLB debut 2023-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 11 G · .216 AVG · 1 HR · 5 RBI · .719 OPS
363 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A Corpus Christi kid taken in the competitive balance round in 2020, Loftin is a .231 career hitter across 221 games at third base for Kansas City. He's drawn five walks in his last 12 games.
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.
- EV95103.620
- Deserved (xVal)0.3109
- Got (aVal)0.32726
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02615
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.75Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.75M
- Service time
- 1 yr 81 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$786,750 (26) · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
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Umpire favor
+4.4 net runs over 39 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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