MLB · 3B · Philadelphia Phillies
Otto Kemp
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 185 lb · born Fullerton, CA, USA · age 27 · played 3B 64, LF 47, DH 8, 1B 2, +2 more · MLB debut 2025-06-07
191 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipOtto Kemp #CBA-OK · 2026 Topps Chrome Black Autograph · 103 recent sales 7N ▼9.9%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Otto Kemp is a 27-year-old outfielder from Fullerton who debuted in June 2025 and has played 75 big-league games since. He has shown some pop — 8 home runs, 28 RBI — but the .216 average and 77 strikeouts in that span tell you the contact is still a struggle.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Kemp here — The Overnight: 2-for-4, 2 HR, BB, K (May 5, 2026)
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 127 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, Philadelphia Phillies.
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.
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 Otto Kemp
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 4 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The postseason
Otto Kemp’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 3 · PHI vs. ATL · 0-1
The line
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