Héctor Rodríguez

The Seam

Forty Power — Last December, FanGraphs graded Héctor Rodríguez's game power a 40 — below average — and projected it to reach 50 only eventually. He has hit twenty-four home runs at Triple-A this season and has never had a major-league at-bat. July 27, 2026

The Line of the Day

3-6, 2 HR, 2 RBI — Wed, Aug 26 · day game vs. San Francisco Giants The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipHector Rodriguez [Green] #SS-HR · 2025 Panini Prizm Sensational Signature · 101 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieHector Rodriguez #BCP-95 · 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 342 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

A 22-year-old from Santo Domingo, Rodríguez has an EV95 of 108.86 in the 93rd percentile of the 446 AAA bats we track, with contact grading at 0.39 on the MLB value grid — pre-consensus, the tools ahead of what the market has priced. He's put 309 balls in play and has 14 games in the majors since an August debut. The .171 average and .554 OPS in that small window aren't the story; the story is that a 22-year-old is hitting the ball this hard, this early.

Current signals

The read: Rodríguez's EV95 of 108.9 sits in the 92nd 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)

108.86

xVal (MLB grid)

0.3936

Balls in play

309

Age

22

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 20, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.27Mest

Tax hit

$0.27M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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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, Cincinnati Reds.

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

$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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