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Zack Wheeler
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 195 lb · born Smyrna, GA, USA · age 36 · draft 2009 rd 1 · played P 33 · MLB debut 2013-06-18
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-06): 2 G · 11.2 IP · 3.09 ERA · 16 SO · 0.94 WHIP
645 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
2,000 career strikeouts — Tue, Sep 22 · night game vs. Milwaukee Brewers The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipZack Wheeler #AA-9 · 2026 Topps All Aces · 67 recent sales 7N ▲16.5%
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The rookieZack Wheeler #US50 · 2013 Topps Update · 126 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Zack Wheeler turned 36 this year, a right-hander from Smyrna, Georgia, drafted 6th overall in 2009, and career strikeout No. 2000 landed September 22. He is in the Index for the milestone watch — 2013 and counting through 311 MLB games — because milestone nights are when the hobby pays attention. The boards stay honest: a milestone is an event, not a signal. His 4.0 MLB WAR this season over 162 innings with a 3.00 ERA tells you the arm is still the arm.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Wheeler here — The Buzz September 23, 2026 · The Overnight: 2,000 career strikeouts (September 22, 2026) · The Buzz September 17, 2026 · The Overnight: 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 8 K, BB (May 17, 2026)
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
- $42.00M
- Tax hit
- $42.00M
- Service time
- 13 yr 98 d
- Guaranteed
- $126M
The deal 3 years $126M (2025–2027) — $42.0M 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: 3 y/$126M (25-27) · agent Wasserman (prev Jet Spts) · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 13.098 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Philadelphia Phillies.
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
- $42.0M
- Guaranteed
- $126.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $42.0M | $42.0M |
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 Zack Wheeler
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The Bureau on Zack Wheeler
The scouting press, in their own words
Brett Bateman just hit an opposite-field double off the wall against Zack Wheeler in his first @MLB at-bat. Not a bad way to start your career. https://t.co/xHKJcxcnjh
Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Zack Wheeler’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 Wild Card Series, Game 3 · PHI vs. ATL · 4.0 IP, 3 K, 2 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →