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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 49, DH 2 · MLB debut 2019-05-28
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 1 G · .333 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · 1.666 OPS
Injured 60-Day · Neck inflammation. (roster status, as of )
204 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipWill Smith #WS-6 · 2025 Topps Now World Series · 97 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieWill Smith #US199 · 2019 Topps Update · 270 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Smith ranks 4th of 20 on the breakout board, and the read is straightforward: his EV95 of 106.375 clears the league median of 105.9, and his luck gap of -0.1014 puts his results further below the physics than 99% of qualified hitters. A first-round pick out of Louisville in 2016, now 31 and in his seventh season behind the plate for the Dodgers, Smith has 134 career home runs and a .263 average across 774 games. This year has been thin — .249 with 6 home runs, 23 RBI, and a .720 OPS in 52 games — but the engine sees a bat producing harder contact than the results reflect. Catchers wear down; that's not new. But the gap here is large, and the bat speed hasn't gone anywhere.
Current signals
The read: Smith is hitting the ball harder than 59% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 106.4; 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. 4 of 20 on the breakout board.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 106.375
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.1014
- Overlay score
- 0.8961
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 27.2
- Age
- 31
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV95106.459
- Deserved (xVal)0.44489
- Got (aVal)0.33128
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.10199
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $12.93M
- Tax hit
- $12.24M
- Service time
- 6 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $12.9M | $12.9M | $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. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — +0.025 from a baseline of 0.3313 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
HOLDINGBASELINE 0.3313MOVED 0.0000TARGET 0.3563Nothing to grade yet: not one ball in play since the baseline froze. The clock is running; the bat is not.
A progress reading, not a forecast.
Nothing here has been graded yet — not because we have been wrong, but because no window has closed. The first one closes , and it will be counted either way.
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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Collect Will Smith
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The Bureau on Will Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
Podcast https://t.co/JJA9xRnLN1 @JakePeavy_22 talks Skenes, Max Scherzer/Justin Verlander, a team the Dodgers should fear; @SlangsOnSports Numbers Game; @PaulHembo brings the heat with shocking George Lombard Jr. numbers, Will Smith, Julio Rodriguez, Skenes analysis.
Wrote this earlier this week when studying trades of this ilk. Hope ranks 55th on the Top 100. Ryan is Dodgers' No. 9 prospect, a bit off the back of the Top 100 Smith ranked as Dodgers' 27th prospect. Fits normal returns in these deals. https://t.co/5ZWP62KiLQ https://t.co/qXFQ9bnZdn
Umpire favor
+1.7 net runs over 27 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
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 | 52 | 173 | 23 | 43 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 34 | .249 | .720 |
| MLB CAREER | 774 | 2681 | 436 | 704 | 134 | 465 | 12 | 353 | 588 | .263 | .827 | ||
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