MLB · DH · Chicago White Sox
Andrew Benintendi
B/T L/L · 5' 9" · 185 lb · born Cincinnati, OH, USA · age 32 · draft 2015 rd 1 · played DH 100, LF 10, RF 1 · MLB debut 2016-08-02
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 10 G · .294 AVG · 2 HR · 9 RBI · .883 OPS
420 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Andrew Benintendi is a 32-year-old designated hitter out of Cincinnati, Ohio, a first-round pick in 2015 with 131 career home runs. His last 12 MLB games show a .235 average but eight RBI and a .661 OPS — not much thump, but the runs still cross.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95103.620
- Deserved (xVal)0.38860
- Got (aVal)0.37460
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00348
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
- $17.10M
- Tax hit
- $15.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 62 d
- Guaranteed
- $75M
The deal 5 years $75M (2023–2027) — $15.0M 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: 5 y/$75M (23-27) · agent Excel · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $15.1M |
| Tax hit | $15.0M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
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
- $15.0M
- Guaranteed
- $75.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $16.5M | $14.5M |
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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
+1.5 net runs over 42 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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