MLB · CF · San Diego Padres
Jackson Merrill
B/T L/R · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Baltimore, MD, USA · age 23 · draft 2021 rd 1 · played CF 156, DH 1 · MLB debut 2024-03-20
664 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
4-5, 2 HR, 3B, 6 RBI — Wed, Sep 9 · day game vs. Washington Nationals The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Jackson Merrill is a 23-year-old center fielder from Baltimore, a 2021 first-round pick with 66 home runs and a .780 OPS across 429 career games. His last eight MLB games were quiet: .233 with eleven strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Merrill here — The Buzz September 10, 2026 · August 11, 2026 · August 3, 2026
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.
- EV95107.269
- Deserved (xVal)0.44590
- Got (aVal)0.39674
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03383
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $7.11M
- Tax hit
- $15.00M
- Service time
- 3 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $135M
The deal 9 years $135M (2026–2034) — $15.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 9 y/$135M (26-34) · agent KHG Spts Mgt · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $9.1M | $11.1M | $21.1M | $21.1M |
| Tax hit | $15.0M | $15.0M | $15.0M | $15.0M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $15.0M
- Guaranteed
- $135.0M
- Term
- 9 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 | 2035 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $6.0M | $8.0M | $10.0M | $21.0M | $21.0M | $21.0M | $21.0M | $21.0M | $22.0M |
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.
Collect Jackson Merrill
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The Bureau on Jackson Merrill
The scouting press, in their own words
Jackson Merrill since this (July 10): .313/.353/.578, 15 HR, 46 RBI in 54 games. Yeah, he’s good. https://t.co/QDaKYhPWnU
Rookie outfielder Victor Mesa Jr. of the Tampa Bay Rays has been named the American League Player of the Week, and center fielder Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres has been selected the National League Player of the Week.
OPS leaders since the All-Star break: 1. PCA, Cubs .995 2, Bregman, Cubs .991 3, Devers, Giants .981 4, Tatis, Padres .968 5, France, Padres .937 6. Alvarez, Astros .932 7. Merrill, Padres .924 8. Alonso, Orioles .927 9, De La Cruz, Reds .913 10. Harper, Phillies . 912
Umpire favor
+0.9 net runs over 43 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Jackson Merrill’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.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · SD vs. MIL · 1-4, 1 R
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · SD vs. MIL · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · SD vs. MIL · 0-5
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 2-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · SD vs. CHC · 2-4, 2 RBI
The line
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