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Roman Anthony
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 200 lb · born West Palm Beach, FL, USA · age 22 · draft 2022 rd 2C · played LF 36, DH 23, RF 4 · MLB debut 2025-06-09
258 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipRoman Anthony #P-2 · 2026 Topps Chrome Perspectives · 1375 recent sales 7N ▲8.7%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Roman Anthony is 22, a left-handed-hitting left fielder from West Palm Beach who debuted in June 2025. In 126 major-league games he's hitting .271 with an .804 OPS and 13 home runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 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.
- EV95109.390
- Deserved (xVal)0.43787
- Got (aVal)0.40278
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03079
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 145 now.
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
- $4.63M
- Tax hit
- $16.25M
- Service time
- 1 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 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $8.6M | $15.6M | $19.6M | $23.6M |
| 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.
The Wire
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The Bureau on Roman Anthony
The scouting press, in their own words
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Everything we know about Roman Anthony's hand injury, from Chad Tracy (via @SmittyOnMLB). https://t.co/2ppNMccXDY
Red Sox say Roman Anthony left Yankee Stadium already and isn’t going to be available to talk about his injury.
Umpire favor
+2.3 net runs over 27 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Roman Anthony’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.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · BOS vs. NYY · 0-2
The line
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