MLB · DH · Chicago Cubs
Michael Conforto
B/T L/R · 5' 11" · 215 lb · born Seattle, WA, USA · age 33 · draft 2014 rd 1 · played DH 35, RF 30, LF 13 · MLB debut 2015-07-24
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 9 G · .350 AVG · 3 HR · 7 RBI · 1.259 OPS
247 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Michael Conforto, a 33-year-old left-handed hitter from Seattle, is a 2014 first-round pick now DH'ing for the Cubs. Across 1,239 games he's hit .244 with 191 home runs, and his last 10 games have added three more to that total.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95107.168
- Deserved (xVal)0.43383
- Got (aVal)0.44091
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01627
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
- $2.00M
- Tax hit
- $2.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 43 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $2M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2M (26) · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 9.043 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
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
- $2.00M
- Guaranteed
- $2.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $2.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Michael Conforto
The scouting press, in their own words
The Chicago Cubs don't need Pete Crow-Armstrong to be a hero every night. He goes hitless in 5 at-bats. The Cubs still win 7-0 over the Arizona Diamondbacks behind Kevin Gausman's 7 shutout innings and Michael Conforto's 3-for-3 night with a HR and double.
Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly go back-to-back with HRs to haunt their former team in the 6th inning. Cubs 5, D-backs 0 in the 6th.
Umpire favor
-0.7 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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