MLB · SS · Chicago Cubs
Dansby Swanson
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 190 lb · born Kennesaw, GA, USA · age 32 · draft 2015 rd 1 · played SS 124, DH 1 · MLB debut 2016-08-17
486 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Dansby Swanson's three-homer game — Dansby Swanson hit three home runs. Three home runs by one man in one game. Read it →
The card rack
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FlagshipDansby Swanson #91C-7 · 2026 Topps 1991 Chrome · 59 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieDansby Swanson #87 · 2017 Topps · 67 recent sales 7N ▼16.1%
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Scout’s note
Dansby Swanson, the first overall pick in 2015 out of Kennesaw, Georgia, has played 1,408 big-league games at shortstop with 183 home runs and a .247 average — durable, real, and the cornerstone the Cubs paid for.
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.
- EV95104.735
- Deserved (xVal)0.34835
- Got (aVal)0.34741
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00540
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
- $28.00M
- Tax hit
- $25.29M
- Service time
- 10 yr 47 d
- Guaranteed
- $177M
The deal 7 years $177M (2023–2029) — $25.3M 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: 7 y/$177M (23-29) · agent Excel · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $27.0M | $26.0M | — |
| Tax hit | $25.3M | $25.3M | $25.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $25.3M
- Guaranteed
- $177.0M
- Term
- 7 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $27.0M | $27.0M | $26.0M | $25.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Dansby Swanson
The scouting press, in their own words
What if the A's never traded Sean Murphy and Matt Olson? What if the Marlins signed Dansby Swanson? What if the Mets had to cut $100M? Check out my attempt to see how a salary cap system would have affected payroll in 2024! https://t.co/mL9wCjuFii https://t.co/J7EDUjkbjQ
Umpire favor
+2.5 net runs over 41 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Dansby Swanson’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 Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 0-3
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CHC vs. SD · 0-3
The line
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