MLB · SS · Los Angeles Angels
Zach Neto
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 185 lb · born Miami, FL, USA · age 25 · draft 2022 rd 1 · played SS 153, DH 3 · MLB debut 2023-04-15
704 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
4-5, HR, 2B, 2 RBI — Tue, Sep 8 · night game vs. Boston Red Sox The scorecard →
5-6, HR, 2B, 7 RBI — Thu, Aug 20 · night game vs. Houston Astros The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Zach Neto is a 25-year-old shortstop from Miami, Florida, a first-round pick in 2022 who has 85 career home runs. Over his last five MLB games he posted a 1.088 OPS with seven walks against six strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Neto here — The Buzz August 25, 2026 · August 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.
- EV95106.257
- Deserved (xVal)0.43184
- Got (aVal)0.43990
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02023
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.
- 2026 salary
- $9.65M
- Tax hit
- $9.65M
- Service time
- 3 yr 170 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent CAA
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | 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, Los Angeles Angels.
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
- $4.15M
- Guaranteed
- $4.15M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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 Zach Neto
The scouting press, in their own words
Right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres has been named the National League Player of the Week, and shortstop Zach Neto of the Los Angeles Angels has been selected the American League Player of the Week.
Zach Neto and Reid Detmers stay with Angels, source tells @TheAthletic
Umpire favor
-0.7 net runs over 64 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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