MLB · RF · St. Paul Saints (MIN)
Matt Wallner
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 220 lb · born Forest Lake, MN, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd CB-A · played RF 99, DH 12 · MLB debut 2022-09-17
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 11 G · .263 AVG · 2 HR · 5 RBI · .883 OPS
Reassigned to Minors (roster status, as of )
249 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Matt Wallner, a 28-year-old lefty from Forest Lake, Minnesota, was a Competitive Balance first-round pick in 2019. He pairs a career .223 average with a .794 OPS and 55 home runs across 307 games; lately he's hitting .138 with nine walks in nine games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.50Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.50M
- Service time
- 2 yr 43 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$799,350 (26) · agent Excel
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | 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, Minnesota Twins.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | 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.
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The Bureau on Matt Wallner
The scouting press, in their own words
Jaxon Wiggins working out of the pen for the I-Cubs for the first time this year and just second time as a pro. Walked Walker Jenkins but then blew 98 by Ben Ross here for a strikeout and 98 again by Matt Wallner the next at bat for back to back Ks. https://t.co/1dpxIpbpe7
Umpire favor
+0.4 net runs over 12 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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