MLB · P · St. Louis Cardinals
Matthew Liberatore
B/T L/L · 6' 4" · 215 lb · born Peoria, AZ, USA · age 26 · draft 2018 rd 1 · played P 31 · MLB debut 2022-05-21
674 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A Peoria, Arizona left-hander and 2018 first-round pick, Liberatore has struck out 426 batters in 151 big-league games. He put away eight in two MLB appearances over the last two weeks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $3.26M
- Tax hit
- $3.26M
- Service time
- 3 yr 144 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Paragon Sports
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $2.26M
- Guaranteed
- $2.26M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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The Bureau on Matthew Liberatore
The scouting press, in their own words
Matthew Liberatore vs Vivek. Who you got? Liberatore can only throw fastballs https://t.co/hvuuT78Nfs
Umpire favor
-1.9 net runs over 30 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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