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 121, LF 10, RF 1 · MLB debut 2016-08-02
468 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Andrew Benintendi, 32, from Cincinnati and a 2015 first-round pick, is a veteran of 1,288 games with 133 home runs and a .751 career OPS. His last five MLB games this October were sparse — .167 average — but he drove in seven runs.
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.
- EV95103.924
- Deserved (xVal)0.39163
- Got (aVal)0.37258
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00855
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
Free agent after this seasonA 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
- $15.10M
- Tax hit
- $15.00M
- Service time
- 10 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
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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
+1.0 net runs over 46 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Andrew Benintendi’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.
- AL Division Series, Game 5 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-4
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-1
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-2
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. HOU · 1-2, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. HOU · 0-1, 1 BB
The line
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