MLB · 1B · Detroit Tigers
Spencer Torkelson
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Petaluma, CA, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 1 · played 1B 156, DH 1 · MLB debut 2022-04-08
612 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
100 career home runs — Wed, Jul 29 · day game vs. Baltimore Orioles The scorecard →
500 career hits — Wed, Jul 29 · day game vs. Baltimore Orioles The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipSpencer Torkelson [Gold] #352 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 79 recent sales 7N ▲0.1%
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The rookieSpencer Torkelson #HA-30 · 2022 Topps Update Home Field Advantage · 116 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Spencer Torkelson is a 27-year-old first baseman from Petaluma, California, a first-round pick in 2020 who debuted in April 2022. In 675 games he has 106 homers and 738 strikeouts — power and chase, side by side. His last three MLB games: .375 with a 1.625 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Torkelson here — The Overnight: 500 career hits (July 29, 2026) · 100 career home runs (July 29, 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.
- EV95105.545
- Deserved (xVal)0.42682
- Got (aVal)0.44291
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02418
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.
- 2026 salary
- $7.28M
- Tax hit
- $7.28M
- Service time
- 4 yr 76 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | 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, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $4.08M
- Guaranteed
- $4.08M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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
-0.6 net runs over 73 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →