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Tyler Stephenson
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 225 lb · born Atlanta, GA, USA · age 30 · draft 2015 rd 1 · played C 116, DH 11, 1B 1 · MLB debut 2020-07-27
468 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Tyler Stephenson, a first-round catcher from Atlanta, has been steady across 682 career games at .259 with 78 home runs, and his last 14 days at the MLB level look like him — .263 with five walks and five RBI in 13 games.
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.
- EV95104.836
- Deserved (xVal)0.42782
- Got (aVal)0.39775
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01968
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.
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
- $6.80M
- Guaranteed
- $6.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
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The Bureau on Tyler Stephenson
The scouting press, in their own words
Asked around about some of the under-the-radar free agents this winter. Alec Bohm came up plenty. Carson Kelly and Tyler Stephenson will be in demand from team’s needing catching. Here’s other names that I heard: https://t.co/5dXlBruNeY
Umpire favor
+4.0 net runs over 55 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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