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Dillon Dingler
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 210 lb · born Massillon, OH, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 2 · played C 97, DH 26 · MLB debut 2024-07-29
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 12 G · .133 AVG · 0 HR · 2 RBI · .360 OPS
521 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipDillon Dingler #RA-DD · 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 335 recent sales 7N ▲0%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Dingler's EV95 of 106.37 puts him 59th percentile among 368 qualified MLB bats — slightly above the 105.8 median. His luck gap is -0.0212: results sitting just under what the physics support, but close enough that the board calls it square. Nothing owed, nothing borrowed. A 2020 second-rounder out of Massillon, Ohio, now 27, he's driven in 82 this year, seventh in the sport, and sits No. 117 on the breakout composite — tracked, useful, honestly priced.
We wrote about Dingler here — The Overnight: 4-for-5, 2 HR, 2B, K (June 9, 2026) · 4-for-5, HR, 2B, 4 RBI (April 19, 2026)
Current signals
The read: Dingler is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 106.4 (60th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.018 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 128 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 106.4
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0178
- Overlay score
- 0.2184
- Age
- 27
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV95106.460
- Deserved (xVal)0.43685
- Got (aVal)0.41182
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01864
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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
Pre-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
- $0.83Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.83M
- Service time
- 1 yr 63 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$834,900 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
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, 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
- $0.83M
- Guaranteed
- $0.83M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
Collect Dillon Dingler
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Umpire favor
+2.1 net runs over 50 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Detroit Tigers | MLB | 27 | 84 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 30 | .167 | .505 |
| 2025 | Detroit Tigers | MLB | 126 | 435 | 54 | 121 | 13 | 57 | 0 | 23 | 110 | .278 | .752 |
| 2026 | Detroit Tigers | MLB | 123 | 469 | 65 | 119 | 26 | 82 | 0 | 31 | 115 | .254 | .799 |
| MLB CAREER | 276 | 988 | 121 | 254 | 40 | 150 | 0 | 57 | 255 | .257 | .753 | ||
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