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Mookie Betts
B/T R/R · 5' 9" · 180 lb · born Nashville, TN, USA · age 34 · draft 2011 rd 5 · played SS 124 · MLB debut 2014-06-29
528 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
1,200 career runs scored — Fri, Jul 3 · night game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard → · The write-up →
300 career home runs — Wed, Jun 24 · night game vs. Minnesota Twins The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
3-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB — Fri, Sep 18 · night game vs. San Francisco Giants The scorecard →
The card rack
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Scout’s note
Mookie Betts, Nashville-born and playing shortstop for the Dodgers at 33, is batting .326 with a .966 OPS and three homers over his last 11 MLB games — the man with 311 career longballs is still hitting like a star.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Betts here — The Buzz September 20, 2026 · September 19, 2026 · September 7, 2026 · July 21, 2026
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.
- EV95104.127
- Deserved (xVal)0.36144
- Got (aVal)0.34437
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00856
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $25.17M
- Tax hit
- $30.42M
- Service time
- 12 yr 70 d
- Guaranteed
- $365M
The deal 12 years $365M (2021–2032), with an opt-out — $30.4M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 12 y/$365M (21-32)* · agent VC Sports · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $29.7M | $29.7M | $29.7M | $27.2M |
| Tax hit | $30.4M | $30.4M | $30.4M | $30.4M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Dodgers.
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
- $30.4M
- Guaranteed
- $365.0M
- Term
- 12 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $25.0M | $25.0M | $30.0M | $30.0M | $30.0M | $27.5M | $27.5M |
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Mookie Betts career 79 WAR tops DiMaggio, Brooks, Bench; four top-2 MVPs and now excellent SS.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-19 · newest post 2026-10-18 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Mookie Betts
The scouting press, in their own words
Dodgers lineup Betts (23 HRs) Freeman (16) Smith (10) Ohtani (30) T. Hernandez (16) Muncy (29) Pages (23) Tucker (17) K. Hernandez (4) Considering postseason Kiké there's no one who isn't a HR risk.
PLive Card of the Day Number 137: A 2019 Donruss Optic Diamond Kings of Mookie Betts Betts sealed the deal on the Dodgers' Game 3 win over the Braves tonight with an excellent play at shortstop, showcasing his unreal defensive versatility. The 2018 American League MVP turns 34 https://t.co/2hVe6CTbAy
Dodgers win 100th game. They were favored to start the year, and they remain the favorite entering the postseason. Ohtani is back, Betts is hot, Diaz looks a bit better and rotation is set up nicely.
Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 71 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Mookie Betts’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 League Championship Series, Game 4 · LAD vs. MIL · 0-3, 1 BB
- NL League Championship Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. MIL · 1-5
- NL League Championship Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. MIL · 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- NL League Championship Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. MIL · 1-4, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · LAD vs. ATL · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. ATL · 2-5
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. ATL · 0-2, 2 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. ATL · 1-3, 1 BB
The line
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