MLB · SS · San Francisco Giants
Willy Adames
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 216 lb · born Santiago, Dominican Republic · age 31 · played SS 121 · MLB debut 2018-05-22
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 5 G · .368 AVG · 2 HR · 3 RBI · 1.084 OPS
Injured 10-Day · Left elbow sprain (roster status, as of )
505 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
200 career home runs — Thu, Aug 20 · day game vs. Cleveland Guardians The scorecard → · The write-up →
1,000 career hits — Fri, Jun 19 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipManny Machado / Willy Adames / Shohei Ohtani #195 · 2025 Topps Heritage · 121 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
The rookieWilly Adames #HMT56 · 2018 Topps Chrome Update · 36 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Willy Adames is a 31-year-old shortstop from Santiago with 201 home runs and 1,161 games in the book. Over his last five MLB games he has hit .368 with a 1.084 OPS and two home runs, and the man can still carry a lineup for a week.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Adames here — The Overnight: 200 career home runs (August 20, 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.
- EV95105.038
- Deserved (xVal)0.39264
- Got (aVal)0.39473
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01330
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
- $13.14M
- Tax hit
- $26.00M
- Service time
- 7 yr 105 d
- Guaranteed
- $182M
The deal 7 years $182M (2025–2031) — $26.0M 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: 7 y/$182M (25-31) · agent CAA · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $31.1M | $31.1M | $31.1M | $31.1M |
| Tax hit | $26.0M | $26.0M | $26.0M | $26.0M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Francisco Giants.
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
- $26.0M
- Guaranteed
- $182.0M
- Term
- 7 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $10.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M |
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.
Collect Willy Adames
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Umpire favor
+2.3 net runs over 59 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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