Ben Peoples

Scout’s note

Ben Peoples grades at 0.60 on the stuff scale, 94th percentile among our 827 AAA arms. The 25-year-old from Columbia, Tennessee — a 22nd-round pick in 2019 who debuted July 4 — has thrown 16.1 MLB innings for Texas with a 2.76 ERA and 10 strikeouts, and his most recent work was a one-strikeout AAA appearance in the last two weeks. Stuff is not command, and this is a watchlist, not a call. But the arm has already produced at the top, and the grade says it can keep going.

Note written Oct 4 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Peoples's stuff grade of 0.60 ranks in the 94th percentile of the 827 AAA arms we track (median 0.04). Stuff is not command — watchlist, not a call — but stuff comes first.

Stuff-lite

0.6045

Pitches

746

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of November 23, 2025.

2026 salary

—

Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 50 d

Options left

3 / 3

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Texas Rangers.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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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