MLB · LF · Worcester Red Sox (BOS)
Roman Anthony
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 200 lb · born West Palm Beach, FL, USA · age 22 · draft 2022 rd 2C · played LF 21, DH 15, RF 1 · MLB debut 2025-06-09
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 3 G · .333 AVG · 1 HR · 4 RBI · 1.052 OPS
170 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Roman Anthony, a 22-year-old left fielder from West Palm Beach, Florida, taken in the second round of the 2022 draft, debuted for Boston this June. He is batting .273 with a .804 OPS across 101 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $2.65M
- Tax hit
- $16.25M
- Service time
- 0 yr 112 d
- Guaranteed
- $130M
The deal 8 years $130M (2026–2033), club option for 2034 — $16.3M 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: 8 y/$130M (26-33)+34 cl opt · agent Frontline · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $4.6M | $8.6M | $15.6M | $19.6M |
| Tax hit | $16.3M | $16.3M | $16.3M | $16.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $16.3M
- Guaranteed
- $130.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $2.0M | $4.0M | $8.0M | $15.0M | $19.0M | $23.0M | $25.0M | $29.0M | $30.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Roman Anthony
The scouting press, in their own words
Roman Anthony with his first homer since returning from the IL. https://t.co/OTK1oy6MuP
Roman Anthony has his first Fenway homer of 2026. It's 8-2 in the seventh.
Final: Yankees 16, Red Sox 1 The Yankees take 3 of 4 this weekend and the season series, 7-6. They capitalized on a no-catch call on Ceddanne Rafaela’s diving attempt to score 5 runs in the 5th. Will Warren pitched into the 8th. Roman Anthony and Trevor Story each had 2 hits in
Umpire favor
+3.1 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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