AAA · 3B · St. Louis Cardinals
Blaze Jordan
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Southaven, MS, USA · age 23 · draft 2020 rd 3 · played 3B 79, 1B 28, DH 11 · MLB debut 2026-06-12
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 12 G · .244 AVG · 1 HR · 3 RBI · .685 OPS
196 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipBlaze Jordan #BTP-79 · 2024 Bowman Scouts Top 100 · 21 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieBlaze Jordan #BCP-71 · 2021 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 236 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Two home runs in 51 games with St. Louis falls well short of what the minors promised. Jordan's EV95 of 108.6 — 91st percentile of 439 AAA bats, contact grade 0.39 — said the power was real. A third-round pick out of Southaven, Mississippi, in 2020, he debuted June 12, 2026, and is hitting .248. The last 10 games (.233, one home run) say the adjustment is still in progress. Pre-consensus: the market hasn't caught up to the contact.
Current signals
The read: Jordan's EV95 of 108.6 sits in the 91st percentile of the 453 AAA bats we track (median 105.0), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.39. The tools are ahead of the market — that's what pre-consensus means.
- EV95 (mph)
- 108.6
- xVal (MLB grid)
- 0.3897
- Age
- 23
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV95105.138
- Deserved (xVal)0.37249
- Got (aVal)0.30813
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.04790
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 157 now.
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.45Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.45M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | 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 Blaze Jordan
The scouting press, in their own words
Joshua Báez has rare power and took the first big league pitch he saw nearly 450 feet to dead center. He’s going to be a a real problem. With JJ Wetherholt, Jordan Walker, Alec Burleson and Iván Herrera already, Cardinals have the makings of something good https://t.co/ZAHa5AaCwa
Umpire favor
-0.2 net runs over 16 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Salem Red Sox | A | 9 | 36 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .250 | .733 |
| 2022 | Salem Red Sox | A | 95 | 370 | 48 | 106 | 8 | 57 | 4 | 37 | 67 | .286 | .803 |
| 2022 | Greenville Drive | A+ | 25 | 93 | 12 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 27 | .301 | .828 |
| 2023 | Greenville Drive | A+ | 73 | 287 | 48 | 93 | 12 | 55 | 2 | 28 | 47 | .324 | .918 |
| 2023 | Portland Sea Dogs | AA | 49 | 189 | 19 | 48 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 12 | 28 | .254 | .698 |
| 2024 | Portland Sea Dogs | AA | 89 | 353 | 35 | 92 | 7 | 61 | 2 | 18 | 46 | .261 | .693 |
| 2025 | Portland Sea Dogs | AA | 44 | 150 | 30 | 48 | 6 | 37 | 3 | 22 | 19 | .320 | .928 |
| 2025 | Worcester Red Sox | AAA | 44 | 171 | 29 | 51 | 6 | 25 | 0 | 11 | 19 | .298 | .821 |
| 2025 | Memphis Redbirds | AAA | 41 | 172 | 21 | 34 | 7 | 37 | 2 | 10 | 22 | .198 | .608 |
| 2025 | Total | AAA | 85 | 343 | 50 | 85 | 13 | 62 | 2 | 21 | 41 | .248 | .714 |
| 2026 | Memphis Redbirds | AAA | 57 | 230 | 37 | 72 | 11 | 35 | 2 | 19 | 29 | .313 | .921 |
| 2026 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 57 | 183 | 15 | 45 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 28 | .246 | .642 |
| MLB CAREER | 57 | 183 | 15 | 45 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 28 | .246 | .642 | ||
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