MLB · 3B · Atlanta Braves
Austin Riley
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 225 lb · born Memphis, TN, USA · age 29 · draft 2015 rd CB-A · played 3B 158 · MLB debut 2019-05-15
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-11): 1 G · .000 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .250 OPS
630 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Austin Riley, the Memphis product Atlanta took in the 2015 Competitive Balance round, has 188 home runs in 980 career games. His last six MLB games: a .190 average but two of his three hits left the yard, so the power is still in there even as the average slipped.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Riley here — The Buzz September 30, 2026
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.
- EV95109.592
- Deserved (xVal)0.41979
- Got (aVal)0.38064
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03079
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
- $22.00M
- Tax hit
- $21.20M
- Service time
- 7 yr 138 d
- Guaranteed
- $212M
The deal 10 years $212M (2023–2032), club option for 2033 — $21.2M 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/$212M (23-32)+33 cl opt · agent ALIGND · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M |
| Tax hit | $21.2M | $21.2M | $21.2M | $21.2M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
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
- $21.2M
- Guaranteed
- $212.0M
- Term
- 10 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $20.0M |
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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Questions mount on peak-age Ronald Acuña Jr. and Austin Riley after Braves' NLDS exit; prior Seager interest noted.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-10 · newest post 2026-10-09 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Austin Riley
The scouting press, in their own words
Podcast https://t.co/HfWNxnfrFX Reviewing Day 1 of the playoffs -- the Braves, Astros, Yankees and Padres launch into the postseason. @kevconnorsespn talks Schlittler, Petco Park, the White Sox young hitters; @kileymcd talks about the Austin Riley moment, and Don Mattingly's
Austin Riley’s home run came off a 99.9 mph four-seam fastball from Jhoan Durán — the fastest pitch hit for a home run by a Braves hitter in the postseason since 2008. https://t.co/SWKr4tAjIo
NEW FOOLISH BAILEY "Austin Riley's decline isn't normal." https://t.co/hF67Y5a9hH
Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 61 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Austin Riley’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 Division Series, Game 4 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-3, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-3
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-3
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-4
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 3 · ATL vs. PHI · 0-2, 1 R, 2 BB
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · ATL vs. PHI · 1-4, 1 BB
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · ATL vs. PHI · 1-3, HR, 3 RBI
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →