MLB · 1B · Atlanta Braves
Matt Olson
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 225 lb · born Atlanta, GA, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd C-A · played 1B 133, RF 1 · MLB debut 2016-09-12
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 12 G · .222 AVG · 2 HR · 4 RBI · .722 OPS
581 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
300 career home runs — Mon, May 4 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipMatt Olson / Shohei Ohtani #307 · 2024 Topps Heritage · 166 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieMatt Olson #98 · 2017 Topps Chrome · 317 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
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Scout’s note
The 91st percentile of our bat tracking belongs to Olson — an EV95 of 109.5, results within 0.008 of what the physics support. Nothing owed, nothing borrowed. Born in Atlanta, a 2012 compensation-round pick who debuted in 2016, he has 324 career home runs and 36 this season, third in the sport. The board sees no mispricing: he sits 100th of 372 on the composite, where the board takes 20. The last two weeks — .180 over 13 games — are a cold spell, not a signal.
We wrote about Olson here — The Buzz August 17, 2026 · August 5, 2026 · The Overnight: 300 career home runs (May 4, 2026) · 3-for-5, HR, 2 2B, BB (April 2, 2026)
Current signals
The read: Olson is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 109.5 (91st percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.010 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 96 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 109.5
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0104
- Overlay score
- 0.3126
- Age
- 32
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.
- EV95109.591
- Deserved (xVal)0.48296
- Got (aVal)0.46396
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01057
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
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
- $22.00M
- Tax hit
- $21.00M
- Service time
- 8 yr 103 d
- Guaranteed
- $168M
The deal 8 years $168M (2022–2029), club option for 2030 — $21.0M 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: 8 y/$168M (22-29)+30 cl opt · agent Wasserman · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | Option |
| Tax hit | $21.0M | $21.0M | $21.0M | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
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
- $21.0M
- Guaranteed
- $168.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $20.0M |
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 Matt Olson
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The Bureau on Matt Olson
The scouting press, in their own words
Matt Olson catches up with 100 vs. Schlittler. 1-0 Braves. (Previous pitch: 101)
Bryce Eldridge has been way better at making contact as a big leaguer this year than he ever was in the minors. 78.4 Contact% and 9.2 SwStr% with SFG this year. Puts him in line with a guy like Matt Olson. https://t.co/yKGKtSQ83k
Umpire favor
+7.4 net runs over 56 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 11 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | .095 | .464 |
| 2017 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 59 | 189 | 33 | 49 | 24 | 45 | 0 | 22 | 60 | .259 | 1.003 |
| 2018 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 162 | 580 | 85 | 143 | 29 | 84 | 2 | 70 | 163 | .247 | .788 |
| 2019 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 127 | 483 | 73 | 129 | 36 | 91 | 0 | 51 | 138 | .267 | .896 |
| 2020 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 60 | 210 | 28 | 41 | 14 | 42 | 1 | 34 | 77 | .195 | .734 |
| 2021 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 156 | 565 | 101 | 153 | 39 | 111 | 4 | 88 | 113 | .271 | .911 |
| 2022 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 162 | 616 | 86 | 148 | 34 | 103 | 0 | 75 | 170 | .240 | .802 |
| 2023 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 162 | 608 | 127 | 172 | 54 | 139 | 1 | 104 | 167 | .283 | .993 |
| 2024 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 162 | 600 | 78 | 148 | 29 | 98 | 0 | 71 | 170 | .247 | .790 |
| 2025 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 162 | 624 | 98 | 170 | 29 | 95 | 1 | 91 | 176 | .272 | .850 |
| 2026 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 133 | 515 | 92 | 134 | 37 | 78 | 4 | 58 | 146 | .260 | .875 |
| MLB CAREER | 1356 | 5011 | 804 | 1289 | 325 | 886 | 13 | 671 | 1384 | .257 | .861 | ||
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