Steven Kwan

Scout’s note

A Los Gatos, CA product in his fifth major-league season, Steven Kwan carries a .282 career average across 734 games. These last two weeks he's been electric: .372 average, 1.012 OPS, 11 walks against 3 strikeouts in 12 games.

Note written Oct 4 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of January 17, 2025.

2026 salary

$11.00M

Tax hit

$11.00M

Service time

5 yr 0 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Cleveland Guardians.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$7.72M

Guaranteed

$7.72M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

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

△ On the field: Junior Caminero hit Steven Kwan with a finger wag after the play.

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