MLB · 2B · Toronto Blue Jays
Ernie Clement
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 170 lb · born Rochester, NY, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd 4 · played 2B 132, SS 40, 3B 14, LF 3 · MLB debut 2021-06-13
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-11): 1 G · .000 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .000 OPS
623 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipErnie Clement #21 · 2026 Topps Heritage · 104 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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The rookieErnie Clement #145 · 2022 Topps Chrome · 117 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Ernie Clement's ledger this year reads 0.6 WAR across 158 games — a useful player whose value lives in the margins, not the highlight reel. Drafted out of Rochester in the fourth round back in 2017, he's now 30 with 594 big-league games behind him, batting .259 with 9 homers and only 58 strikeouts for Toronto. The last two weeks have been rough — .118 over five MLB contests — but that's the shape of a contact-first second baseman in a cold spell, not a player in decline. He is what the ledger says: steady, if not spectacular.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
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.
- EV95100.02
- Deserved (xVal)0.2772
- Got (aVal)0.29811
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02815
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
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
- $7.40M
- Tax hit
- $7.40M
- Service time
- 4 yr 168 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Grand Central
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, Toronto Blue Jays.
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
- $4.60M
- Guaranteed
- $4.60M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — -0.03 from a baseline of 0.3465 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : -0.0483 against the -0.03 we called.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 43 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Cleveland Indians | MLB | 40 | 121 | 16 | 28 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 19 | .231 | .624 |
| 2022 | Cleveland Guardians | MLB | 64 | 145 | 18 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 24 | .200 | .485 |
| 2022 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 6 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .056 | .167 |
| 2022 | Total | MLB | 70 | 163 | 19 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 26 | .184 | .452 |
| 2023 | Toronto Blue Jays | MLB | 30 | 50 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .380 | .885 |
| 2024 | Toronto Blue Jays | MLB | 139 | 434 | 48 | 114 | 12 | 51 | 12 | 11 | 41 | .263 | .692 |
| 2025 | Toronto Blue Jays | MLB | 157 | 545 | 83 | 151 | 9 | 50 | 6 | 27 | 61 | .277 | .711 |
| 2026 | Toronto Blue Jays | MLB | 158 | 590 | 60 | 153 | 9 | 48 | 7 | 22 | 58 | .259 | .649 |
| MLB CAREER | 594 | 1903 | 233 | 495 | 34 | 174 | 26 | 79 | 209 | .260 | .665 | ||
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