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Emerson Hancock
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 213 lb · born Cairo, GA, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 1 · played P 25 · MLB debut 2023-08-09
566 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Emerson Hancock, a 6-foot-4 right-hander out of Cairo, Georgia, taken in the first round of the 2020 draft, has appeared in 62 MLB games and struck out 235 hitters. He is on the roster, doing the work, and that is the whole story here.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 59 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Seattle Mariners.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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 Emerson Hancock
The scouting press, in their own words
.@CanesBaseball recruit Chris Grasso @PrepBaseballPA operates similar to former 1st rounder and current MLer Emerson Hancock. https://t.co/4XVTbSL4Nq https://t.co/l4f7eug0IG
Umpire favor
-1.7 net runs over 23 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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