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 109, SS 31, 3B 14, LF 3 · MLB debut 2021-06-13
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 11 G · .282 AVG · 0 HR · 1 RBI · .618 OPS
524 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipErnie Clement #21 · 2026 Topps Heritage · 145 recent sales 7N ▲3.1%
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The rookieErnie Clement #145 · 2022 Topps Chrome · 170 recent sales 7N ▲0.1%
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Scout’s note
A fourth-round pick out of Rochester in 2017, Clement has played 564 big-league games and become, at 30, exactly the player the profile suggested — a contact second baseman with a .284 average and .711 OPS in 128 games for Toronto. The engine sees 1.6 WAR and has him on the ledger, not the index: a useful everyday piece, not a mispricing. He has struck out only 49 times all year. The read here is stability, not discovery.
Current signals
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.
- EV95100.12
- Deserved (xVal)0.2904
- Got (aVal)0.32724
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0456
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
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
- $4.60M
- Tax hit
- $4.60M
- Service time
- 3 yr 168 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $4.6M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$4.6M (26) · agent Grand Central
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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 .
BEHIND PACE133 balls in play since we filedBASELINE 0.3465MOVED -0.0195 · MODEL WANTED -0.0211TARGET 0.3165Off the pace. The direction is right and the speed is not.
A progress reading, not a forecast.
Nothing here has been graded yet — not because we have been wrong, but because no window has closed. The first one closes , and it will be counted either way.
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 32 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 | 130 | 497 | 54 | 140 | 9 | 43 | 5 | 18 | 51 | .282 | .705 |
| MLB CAREER | 566 | 1810 | 227 | 482 | 34 | 169 | 24 | 75 | 202 | .266 | .680 | ||
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