MLB · DH · St. Louis Cardinals
Iván Herrera
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 220 lb · born Panama City, Panama · age 26 · played DH 108, C 52, 1B 1 · MLB debut 2022-05-24
718 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
2-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI — Sun, Sep 20 · day game vs. Washington Nationals The scorecard →
The card rack
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FlagshipIvan Herrera [Refractor] #28 · 2023 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary · 13 recent sales 7N ▼0.3%
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The rookieIvan Herrera #30 · 2023 Bowman · 36 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
The contact off Herrera's bat is loud and honest: an EV95 of 107.37, 71st percentile of 406 qualified bats, with a luck gap of -0.0019 that's as flat as it gets — stat line matching physics. The board sees a fair price at No. 171 of 406 on the breakout composite, outside the 20 it takes. From Panama City, the 26-year-old has settled into a full-time role in St. Louis: 161 games, 19 homers, a .735 OPS. No discount to hunt here, no debt to fear.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Herrera is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.4 (71st percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.002 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 171 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 107.37
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0019
- Overlay score
- 0.1374
- Age
- 26
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95107.471
- Deserved (xVal)0.37050
- Got (aVal)0.35146
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00249
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
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
- $3.25M
- Tax hit
- $3.25M
- Service time
- 3 yr 34 d
- Options left
- 0 / 4
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
Collect Iván Herrera
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Umpire favor
+4.7 net runs over 93 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 11 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .111 | .301 |
| 2023 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 13 | 37 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | .297 | .760 |
| 2024 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 72 | 229 | 37 | 69 | 5 | 27 | 5 | 25 | 53 | .301 | .800 |
| 2025 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 107 | 388 | 54 | 110 | 19 | 66 | 8 | 43 | 84 | .284 | .837 |
| 2026 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 161 | 605 | 98 | 146 | 19 | 69 | 8 | 76 | 138 | .241 | .735 |
| MLB CAREER | 364 | 1277 | 195 | 338 | 43 | 167 | 21 | 151 | 294 | .265 | .772 | ||
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