MLB · CF · Pittsburgh Pirates
Jake Mangum
B/T S/L · 5' 11" · 191 lb · born Flowood, MS, USA · age 30 · draft 2019 rd 4 · played CF 59, LF 54, RF 24 · MLB debut 2025-03-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 11 G · .152 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .425 OPS
403 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipJake Mangum #B25-JMA · 2025 Bowman's Best Autograph · 147 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieJake Mangum #AC-JM · 2025 Topps Chrome Update Autograph · 192 recent sales 7N ▼4.4%
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Scout’s note
Jake Mangum is a 30-year-old switch-hitting center fielder from Flowood, Mississippi, drafted in the fourth round of 2019 who debuted this spring. The big league line holds up at .292 over 229 games, but his last 11 contests show a .152 average with 10 strikeouts.
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 375 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.
- EV95102.06
- Deserved (xVal)0.31914
- Got (aVal)0.36454
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0485
today · 30 days ago, against the 333 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
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
- $0.80Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.80M
- Service time
- 1 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$800,200 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
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, Pittsburgh Pirates.
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 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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 Jake Mangum
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
+0.4 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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