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Eli White
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Greenville, SC, USA · age 32 · draft 2016 rd 11 · played RF 74, LF 48, CF 24, DH 10 · MLB debut 2020-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 10 G · .188 AVG · 0 HR · 2 RBI · .423 OPS
180 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipEli White #US189 · 2025 Topps Update · 116 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-03 · paid links
The rookieEli White #CPA-EW · 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Autographs · 123 recent sales 7N ▲1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-03 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Eli White is a 32-year-old right fielder out of Greenville, SC, in his seventh big-league year out of an 11th-round pick. His last 14 days in the majors: ten games, a .188 average, no home runs, a .423 OPS — a bench hand scuffling.
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.
- EV95105.343
- Deserved (xVal)0.31513
- Got (aVal)0.35046
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0437
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
- $0.26M
- Tax hit
- $0.26M
- Service time
- 3 yr 140 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.9M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$900,000 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $0.90M
- Guaranteed
- $0.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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 Eli White
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The Bureau on Eli White
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
-0.8 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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