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Wilyer Abreu
B/T L/L · 5' 10" · 215 lb · born Maracaibo, Venezuela · age 27 · played RF 153, DH 4 · MLB debut 2023-08-22
681 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Wilyer Abreu is a 27-year-old right fielder from Maracaibo, Venezuela, in his third year with Boston. Across 432 major-league games he has put up a .784 OPS with 63 home runs — a real corner bat, not a question mark.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95106.967
- Deserved (xVal)0.41578
- Got (aVal)0.38265
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02878
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
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
- $5.25M
- Tax hit
- $5.25M
- Service time
- 3 yr 41 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $0.81M
- Guaranteed
- $0.81M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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 Wilyer Abreu
The scouting press, in their own words
Cam Schlittler's night is over after giving up a one-out single to Wilyer Abreu in the seventh inning on his 117th pitch. He walked off the mound to a standing ovation and MVP chants. Paul Blackburn will face Ceddanne Rafaela. The Yankees lead 2-0.
Wilyer Abreu OPS vs LHP by year 2023 = .400 (10 PA) 2024 = .532 (67 PA) 2025 = .676 (68 PA) 2026 = .870 (200 PA)
Red Sox at the Trop today behind Brayan Bello: Anthony LF Gasper DH Rutschman C Abreu RF Sogard 1B Story SS Durbin 3B Duran CF Kiner-Falefa 2B
Umpire favor
-1.8 net runs over 71 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Wilyer Abreu’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.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · BOS vs. NYY · 0-4
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · BOS vs. NYY · 1-3
The line
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