MLB · CF · Houston Astros
Daulton Varsho
B/T L/R · 5' 8" · 207 lb · born Marshfield, WI, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd CB-B · played CF 240, DH 1, LF 1 · MLB debut 2020-07-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 13 G · .204 AVG · 2 HR · 7 RBI · .623 OPS
474 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career home runs — Fri, Apr 10 · night game vs. Minnesota Twins The scorecard →
Scout’s note
A Marshfield outfielder with 107 career home runs and a .228 average, Varsho's last five games produced one RBI and five strikeouts — the power-speed profile still searching for consistent contact.
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.
- EV95105.648
- Deserved (xVal)0.33524
- Got (aVal)0.32626
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00146
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
ArbitrationA 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
- $3.16M
- Tax hit
- $3.16M
- Service time
- 5 yr 128 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $10.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$10.75M (26) · agent ISE
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
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
- $10.8M
- Guaranteed
- $10.8M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 4 |
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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The Bureau on Daulton Varsho
The scouting press, in their own words
Bateman is having his best offensive year yet in Triple-A but has managed only 3 HR in 82 games with low EVs to match. A plus-plus runner, he could play CF in the bigs today, and Toronto could see how that looks if/when Varsho is moved. Bateman is R5 eligible this offseason.
Umpire favor
+0.3 net runs over 50 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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