MLB · SS · Los Angeles Dodgers
Mookie Betts
B/T R/R · 5' 9" · 180 lb · born Nashville, TN, USA · age 33 · draft 2011 rd 5 · played SS 98 · MLB debut 2014-06-29
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 12 G · .245 AVG · 1 HR · 8 RBI · .662 OPS
439 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 card rack
FlagshipMookie Betts #BCP109 · 2014 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 748 recent sales 7N ▼1.8%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
A fifth-round pick from Nashville now playing shortstop for the Dodgers, Betts owns 306 career home runs and a .872 OPS. Over his last 13 games he's struck out just three times while hitting .279.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Betts here — The Buzz July 21, 2026
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.
- EV95103.925
- Deserved (xVal)0.35336
- Got (aVal)0.32021
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02372
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $25.17M
- Tax hit
- $30.42M
- Service time
- 11 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $25.2M | $29.7M | $29.7M | $29.7M |
| 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.
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 Mookie Betts
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The Bureau on Mookie Betts
The scouting press, in their own words
That’s back-to-back games with a homer for Mookie Betts. He had just two homers in his last 38 games prior to this. https://t.co/0NzqbF2YNN
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 51 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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