Cooper Hjerpe

Scout’s note

Cooper Hjerpe, a 2022 first-rounder from Davis, CA, just reached the Cardinals in September and has 15 strikeouts in 4 games. That's the number — a left-hander getting swings and misses in his first taste, and nothing more to say yet.

Note written Oct 18 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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 January 13, 2026.

2026 salary

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Tax hit

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Service time

0 yr 22 d

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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 October 12, 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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