Brent Rooker

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career hits — Thu, May 7 · night game vs. Philadelphia Phillies The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipJose Ramirez / Aaron Judge / Brent Rooker #29 · 2025 Topps · 72 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieBrent Rooker #RA-BR · 2021 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 43 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Brent Rooker is 31, a Germantown product the Athletics are running out at DH, and the engine says his bat is doing more than his line lets on. His EV95 of 108.675 puts him in the top 15 percent of 372 qualified hitters — north of the 105.9 median — while his results on contact trail the physics more than 98 percent of the sample. That -0.0686 luck gap is the distance between how hard he's squaring balls and the .200 average he's carrying through 48 games. A supplemental first-round pick in 2017, Rooker has 119 career home runs and a .815 career OPS, so the power is established; what the engine sees is a season where the contact is louder than the numbers, which is why he ranks No. 7 on the breakout board. The strikeouts — 65 in 48 games — are part of the package, but the ball is coming off his bat harder than 10 home runs and 29 RBI would suggest.

Current signals

The read: Rooker is hitting the ball harder than 84% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 108.7; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 98% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 7 of 20 on the breakout board.

OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

108.675

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0685

Overlay score

0.7434

WAR (season · MLB calc)

-0.3

Balls in play

116

Sprint (ft/s)

27.6

Age

31

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 August 12, 2026.

2026 salary

$8.00M

Tax hit

$12.00M

Service time

4 yr 59 d

Guaranteed

$60M

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

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$12.0M

Guaranteed

$60.0M

Term

5 yrs

His class

Extension

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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