MLB · 1B · Minnesota Twins
Royce Lewis
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 200 lb · born Aliso Viejo, CA, USA · age 27 · draft 2017 rd 1 · played 1B 84, 3B 50, 2B 17, DH 2 · MLB debut 2022-05-06
509 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Royce Lewis is a 27-year-old first baseman from Aliso Viejo, CA and the 2017 first overall pick, now in his fifth big-league season. He is a career .246 hitter with 61 home runs across 383 games, but in 8 MLB games these last two weeks he hit .242 with 11 strikeouts and no walks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Lewis here — The Buzz August 13, 2026
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.
- EV95107.775
- Deserved (xVal)0.39868
- Got (aVal)0.35649
- 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.
What he’s paid
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
- $4.85M
- Tax hit
- $4.85M
- Service time
- 4 yr 139 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Minnesota Twins.
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
- $2.85M
- Guaranteed
- $2.85M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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.
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Umpire favor
+3.6 net runs over 50 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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