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Will Smith
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 195 lb · born Louisville, KY, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 1 · played C 71, DH 4 · MLB debut 2019-05-28
292 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipWill Smith #WS-6 · 2025 Topps Now World Series · 91 recent sales 7N ▼0.4%
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The rookieWill Smith #US199 · 2019 Topps Update · 194 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Will Smith's hardest contact, an EV95 of 105.4, puts him just below the league median — 45th percentile — yet his results on that contact run further below the physics than 99% of qualified hitters, a -0.0698 gap that is one of the widest on our breakout board. A .260 average and .781 OPS with ten home runs in 73 games is a useful catcher's line, but the engine sees a man whose barrels are finding gloves. Drafted in the first round out of Louisville, Kentucky, in 2016, Smith is thirty-one with 138 career home runs and a .263 average across 795 games. He closes out our breakout board at No. 20 of 20. One MLB game in the last two weeks — a .333/.666 line — is too small to move the read. The contact is ordinary; the outcomes are worse than ordinary.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Smith is hitting the ball harder than 45% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 105.4; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 99% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 20 of 20 on the breakout board.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 105.4
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0698
- Overlay score
- 0.5918
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 27.1
- Age
- 31
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.
- EV95105.445
- Deserved (xVal)0.43686
- Got (aVal)0.35648
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.07099
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
- $12.93M
- Tax hit
- $12.24M
- Service time
- 7 yr 90 d
- Guaranteed
- $140M
The deal 10 years $140M (2024–2033), with an opt-out — $14.0M 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: 10 y/$140M (24-33)* · agent Apex · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $12.9M | $9.4M | $9.4M | $9.4M |
| Tax hit | $12.2M | $12.2M | $12.2M | $12.2M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Dodgers.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. These are the 2 calls we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — +0.02 from a baseline of 0.3154 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : +0.0405 against the +0.02 we called.
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — +0.025 from a baseline of 0.3313 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : -0.0093 against the +0.025 we called.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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The Bureau on Will Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
⚾ 2027 Player Profile ⚾ Will Smith, Los Angeles Dodgers - 2026 season review - Profile breakdown - 2027 & Long-term Outlook - Buy, Sell, or Hold in Dynasty? #FantasyBaseball https://t.co/B3vdJUrkEd
Here are the starting pitching match-ups for the DS: CWS - Smith vs. CLE - Messick ATL - TBD vs. LAD - Skubal NYY - Cole vs. TB - Rasmussen SD - Ray vs. MIlwaukee - The Miz
Umpire favor
+2.5 net runs over 36 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Will Smith’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL League Championship Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. MIL · 0-3, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · LAD vs. ATL · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. ATL · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. ATL · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. ATL · 0-4
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 54 | 170 | 30 | 43 | 15 | 42 | 2 | 18 | 52 | .253 | .908 |
| 2020 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 37 | 114 | 23 | 33 | 8 | 25 | 0 | 20 | 22 | .289 | .980 |
| 2021 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 130 | 414 | 71 | 107 | 25 | 76 | 3 | 58 | 101 | .258 | .860 |
| 2022 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 137 | 508 | 68 | 132 | 24 | 87 | 1 | 56 | 96 | .260 | .808 |
| 2023 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 126 | 464 | 80 | 121 | 19 | 76 | 3 | 63 | 89 | .261 | .797 |
| 2024 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 128 | 476 | 77 | 118 | 20 | 75 | 1 | 51 | 105 | .248 | .760 |
| 2025 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 110 | 362 | 64 | 107 | 17 | 61 | 2 | 64 | 89 | .296 | .901 |
| 2026 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 73 | 235 | 35 | 61 | 10 | 34 | 0 | 34 | 45 | .260 | .781 |
| MLB CAREER | 795 | 2743 | 448 | 722 | 138 | 476 | 12 | 364 | 599 | .263 | .829 | ||
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