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Ben Malgeri
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 215 lb · born Exeter, NH, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 18 · played RF 68, LF 49, CF 8, DH 5 · MLB debut 2026-06-23
140 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Fri, Aug 14 · night game vs. Chicago White Sox The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Ben Malgeri is a right-handed-hitting right fielder from Exeter, NH, a 2021 18th-round pick who reached Detroit in June. Sixty games in, he is hitting .250 with a .767 OPS and five home runs — a useful bat finding a role.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Malgeri here — The Buzz August 17, 2026
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- Service time
- 0 yr 97 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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.
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Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 13 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →