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Dillon Dingler
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 210 lb · born Massillon, OH, USA · age 28 · draft 2020 rd 2 · played C 116, DH 29 · MLB debut 2024-07-29
608 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipDillon Dingler #RA-DD · 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 202 recent sales 7N ▼0.8%
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Scout’s note
Dillon Dingler's EV95 of 106.425 sits in the 60th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track — just above the 105.8 median — with results 0.0359 below what the physics says he's earned. He's slightly owed, but the gap isn't wide enough to flag. A second-round pick in 2020 from Massillon, Ohio, Dingler is 28 and in his third season with Detroit, batting .243 with 27 homers and 91 RBI. He ranks 84th of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20, so the engine sees a solid regular, not a surge waiting to happen.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.036 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 84 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 106.425
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0359
- Overlay score
- 0.367
- Age
- 28
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.
- EV95106.460
- Deserved (xVal)0.43184
- Got (aVal)0.38769
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03686
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
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 63 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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, 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.
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The Bureau on Dillon Dingler
The scouting press, in their own words
Here is my all MLB SWAG team of 2026: OF - Ronald Acuna, Jr. OF - Pete Crow-Armstrong OF - Fernando Tatis, Jr. 1B - Sal Stewart 2B - Jazz Chisolm SS - Elly De La Cruz 3B - Junior Caminero C - Dillon Dingler DH - Kyle Schwarber RHP - Jacob Misiorowski Closer - Aroldis Chapman
Umpire favor
+2.8 net runs over 64 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire 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 | 145 | 551 | 72 | 134 | 27 | 91 | 0 | 34 | 139 | .243 | .748 |
| MLB CAREER | 298 | 1070 | 128 | 269 | 41 | 159 | 0 | 60 | 279 | .251 | .731 | ||
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