MLB · LF · San Diego Padres
Samad Taylor
B/T R/R · 5' 8" · 160 lb · born Corona, CA, USA · age 28 · draft 2016 rd 10 · played LF 75, RF 17, 2B 7, DH 7, +1 more · MLB debut 2023-06-17
211 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipSamad Taylor #32 · 2024 Topps · 16 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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Scout’s note
Samad Taylor is 5'8", 160 pounds out of Corona, California, a tenth-round pick in 2016 who debuted in June 2023 and has spent parts of three seasons fighting for a big-league job. What the engine sees this year in San Diego is a .316 average built on contact that doesn't support it. His EV95 sits at 99.8 — six ticks below the league median of 105.8 — and his luck gap of 0.0788 means his results are outrunning his hardest-hit balls by more than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track. He's fifth on our fade board. Taylor has the speed to leg out a few extra hits (29.2 sprint, 21 career steals), and 111 balls in play is a real enough sample to take seriously. But gaps this wide close from above, and a man who hits the ball this softly can't keep a .316 sitting on top of it.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Taylor's results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 99.8 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 5 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 99.8
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0788
- Overlay score
- -0.8952
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 29.2
- Age
- 28
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.
- EV9599.82
- Deserved (xVal)0.37150
- Got (aVal)0.43489
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0791
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 111 now.
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
- 1 yr 23 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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
-1.1 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Samad Taylor’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 Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 0-3
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · SD vs. MIL · 1-3, 1 R
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · SD vs. MIL · 1-1
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 0-1
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · SD vs. CHC · 0-2
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 31 | 60 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 22 | .200 | .546 |
| 2024 | Seattle Mariners | MLB | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .800 |
| 2025 | Seattle Mariners | MLB | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .125 | .250 |
| 2026 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 47 | 152 | 26 | 48 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 45 | .316 | .798 |
| MLB CAREER | 85 | 225 | 40 | 63 | 2 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 69 | .280 | .712 | ||
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