MLB · SS · Athletics
Jacob Wilson
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 190 lb · born Los Angeles, CA, USA · age 24 · draft 2023 rd 1 · played SS 78, DH 6 · MLB debut 2024-07-19
Injured 60-Day · Left shoulder subluxation. (roster status, as of )
337 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jacob Wilson, a first-round shortstop out of Los Angeles, is batting .288 across 233 career games for the Athletics. The last two weeks have been rough: nine games at .188 with no walks and five strikeouts.
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.
- EV95101.24
- Deserved (xVal)0.31211
- Got (aVal)0.32525
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00934
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
Under contractA 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
- $1.43M
- Tax hit
- $10.00M
- Service time
- 1 yr 73 d
- Guaranteed
- $70M
The deal 7 years $70M (2026–2032), club option for 2033 — $10.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 7 y/$70M (26-32)+33 cl opt · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $2.9M | $4.9M | $9.4M | $12.4M |
| Tax hit | $10.0M | $10.0M | $10.0M | $10.0M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Athletics.
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
- $10.0M
- Guaranteed
- $70.0M
- Term
- 7 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $2.5M | $4.5M | $9.0M | $12.0M | $17.0M | $19.0M | $26.0M |
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 Jacob Wilson
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Umpire favor
-0.4 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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