MLB · CF · Detroit Tigers
Matt Vierling
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 205 lb · born St. Louis, MO, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 5 · played CF 69, RF 24, LF 10, 3B 1, +1 more · MLB debut 2021-06-19
Injured 10-Day · Left adductor strain (roster status, as of )
291 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Matt Vierling, a St. Louis kid taken in the fifth round in 2018, is the center fielder in Detroit with 552 games and a .250 average on his card. Forty home runs and a .690 OPS tell you he is a regular, not a star.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 384 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.
- EV95104.937
- Deserved (xVal)0.34429
- Got (aVal)0.2784
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05895
today · 30 days ago, against the 344 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
- $3.25M
- Tax hit
- $3.25M
- Service time
- 4 yr 26 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $3.3M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$3.255M (26) · agent Apex Baseball
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $3.25M
- Guaranteed
- $3.25M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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 Vierling
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Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 35 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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