MLB · C · Baltimore Orioles
Samuel Basallo
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 250 lb · born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · age 22 · played C 64, DH 34, 1B 13 · MLB debut 2025-08-17
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-05): 1 G · .000 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .000 OPS
403 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipSamuel Basallo [Red Rookie Variation] #93 · 2026 Bowman · 193 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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The rookieSamuel Basallo #ES-10 · 2026 Bowman Electric Sluggers · 249 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Samuel Basallo is a 22-year-old catcher from Santo Domingo, 6-foot-4 and 250 pounds, who debuted in August. He has 22 home runs in 143 big-league games and a .209 average, and his last MLB look — one game in late September — produced two strikeouts and nothing else.
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.
- EV95109.593
- Deserved (xVal)0.42381
- Got (aVal)0.37560
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03585
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $1.63M
- Tax hit
- $8.38M
- Service time
- 1 yr 43 d
- Guaranteed
- $67M
The deal 8 years $67M (2026–2033), unspecified option for 2034 — $8.4M 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/$67M (26-33)+34 opt · agent CAA · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $1.6M | $4.6M | $7.6M | $11.6M |
| Tax hit | $8.4M | $8.4M | $8.4M | $8.4M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Baltimore Orioles.
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
- $8.4M
- Guaranteed
- $67.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $1.0M | $1.0M | $4.0M | $7.0M | $11.0M | $15.0M | $15.0M | $18.0M |
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.
Collect Samuel Basallo
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Umpire favor
+1.2 net runs over 38 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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