MLB · 3B · San Francisco Giants
Matt Chapman
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Victorville, CA, USA · age 33 · draft 2014 rd 1 · played 3B 83, DH 1 · MLB debut 2017-06-15
Injured 60-Day · Abdominal strain. (roster status, as of )
352 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Matt Chapman's eight-RBI game — Matt Chapman drove in 8. Eight runs driven in or more by one man. Read it →
Scout’s note
Matt Chapman, the third baseman from Victorville, California, has 1,234 career games, 210 home runs, and a .782 OPS — a decade-deep vet whose body of work speaks for itself and needs no flag from us.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Chapman here — The Buzz August 11, 2026
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.
- EV95109.289
- Deserved (xVal)0.32822
- Got (aVal)0.34539
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02816
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $25.17M
- Tax hit
- $25.17M
- Service time
- 9 yr 109 d
- Guaranteed
- $151M
The deal 6 years $151M (2025–2030) — $25.2M 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: 6 y/$151M (25-30) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $25.2M | $25.2M | $25.2M |
| Tax hit | $25.2M | $25.2M | $25.2M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Francisco Giants.
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
- $24.8M
- Guaranteed
- $151.0M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M |
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.
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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Umpire favor
-0.4 net runs over 33 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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