MLB · DH · Boston Red Sox
Jahmai Jones
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 210 lb · born Roswell, GA, USA · age 29 · draft 2015 rd 2 · played DH 108, LF 12, RF 4 · MLB debut 2020-08-31
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 9 G · .400 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · 1.525 OPS
146 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jahmai Jones is a 29-year-old right-handed hitter from Roswell, Georgia, taken in the second round of the 2015 draft, now DH'ing in Boston. His career average is .235, but his last five games have produced a .750 average and a 2.107 OPS.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.33Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.33M
- Service time
- 1 yr 148 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$832,200 (26) · agent ACES
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, Boston Red 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
- $0.83M
- Guaranteed
- $0.83M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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.
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The Bureau on Jahmai Jones
The scouting press, in their own words
Rob Refsnyder and Romy Gonzalez walked so Jahmai Jones could run. On a wildly impressive start to Jones' Red Sox tenure, albeit in a very limited sample: https://t.co/qnAJ9mg4eK
Jahmai Jones continues to obliterate baseballs. It's 9-6 after his two-run shot off Hoby Milner.
Umpire favor
+1.3 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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