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Hagen Smith
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 235 lb · born Bullard, TX, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played P 38 · MLB debut 2026-08-09
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-30): 5 G · 6.0 IP · 4.50 ERA · 9 SO · 1.50 WHIP
118 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Hagen Smith, a 23-year-old left-hander from Bullard, TX, reached the big leagues in early August as a White Sox first-round pick. In 13 MLB appearances he has 32 strikeouts, 16 of them in his last five big-league games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Smith here — The Buzz August 10, 2026
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
- $0.21Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.21M
- 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, Chicago White Sox.
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Hagen Smith uncorks a nasty 83 mph slider.
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The Bureau on Hagen Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
Here are the starting pitching match-ups for the DS: CWS - Smith vs. CLE - Messick ATL - TBD vs. LAD - Skubal NYY - Cole vs. TB - Rasmussen SD - Ray vs. MIlwaukee - The Miz
FINAL: White Sox 6, Astros 3 Battle of the bullpen game goes to Chicago, which got three scoreless from rookie Hagen Smith and scored in four of the first five innings. White Sox looking to win their first playoff series since the 2005 World Series and have two chances to do it.
The Athletics are casting a wide net in their search for their next general manager. According to multiple sources, they’ve had conversations with Boston Red Sox SVP/AGMs Mike Groopman and Taylor Smith about the role.
Umpire favor
+1.8 net runs over 14 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Hagen Smith’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. CLE · 2.2 IP, 4 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. HOU · 3.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
The line
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