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Matt Shaw
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 185 lb · born Springfield, MA, USA · age 24 · draft 2023 rd 1 · played RF 30, DH 17, 2B 16, 3B 10, +4 more · MLB debut 2025-03-18
222 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipMatt Shaw #HA-44 · 2025 Topps Update Homefield Advantage · 237 recent sales 7N ▲0%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Matt Shaw is a 24-year-old right fielder out of Springfield, Massachusetts, a first-round pick in 2023 who reached the big leagues in March 2025. His MLB line says .230 with 18 homers in 203 games — a bat still finding its footing. Over his last three MLB games he hit .333.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95104.228
- Deserved (xVal)0.30710
- Got (aVal)0.33331
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03114
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
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 1 yr 162 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | 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, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | 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.
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
+1.0 net runs over 23 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Matt Shaw’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 0-2, 1 BB
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →