MLB · SS · Kansas City Royals
Tyler Tolbert
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 185 lb · born Birmingham, AL, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 13 · played SS 28, 2B 21, RF 16, CF 12, +4 more · MLB debut 2025-03-31
148 plate appearances & 33 batters faced scored this season His season card →
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Scout’s note
Tyler Tolbert is a 13th-round pick from 2019, a 5-foot-10 shortstop out of Birmingham, Alabama, who debuted on Opening Day 2025 and has played 144 major-league games for Kansas City. He is hitting .285 this season with a .739 OPS, and the engine sees a man whose luck gap of 0.0585 puts his results ahead of more than 97 percent of the 406 qualified hitters we track — an EV95 of 102.885, nearly three ticks below the league median of 105.8. He is No. 12 on the fade board. Tolbert's game is built on the ground: 43 steals in 144 career games, just 42 strikeouts, and a 29.3 sprint speed that turns routine grounders into pressure. The approach limits damage but also limits authority — four home runs in his career — and 104 balls in play this year are carrying more good fortune than the contact underneath them can sustain. The engine expects the average to settle.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Tolbert's results are outrunning his contact by more than 97% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 102.9 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 12 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 102.885
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0585
- Overlay score
- -0.5764
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 29.3
- 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.
- EV95102.913
- Deserved (xVal)0.31815
- Got (aVal)0.36957
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0583
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 104 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 126 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
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
+0.5 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 64 | 50 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 11 | .280 | .701 |
| 2026 | Kansas City Royals | MLB | 80 | 130 | 32 | 37 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 12 | 31 | .285 | .739 |
| MLB CAREER | 144 | 180 | 51 | 51 | 4 | 14 | 43 | 13 | 42 | .283 | .729 | ||
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