MLB · C · Chicago White Sox
Jake Rogers
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 201 lb · born Canyon, TX, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 3 · played C 100, P 3 · MLB debut 2019-07-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 9 G · .143 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · .503 OPS
159 plate appearances & 12 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A 31-year-old right-handed hitter from Canyon, Texas, Rogers has 47 home runs in 375 big-league games, but the .197 career average tells the story, and in two MLB games this August he went hitless with three strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $0.18M
- Tax hit
- $0.18M
- Service time
- 5 yr 40 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $3.0M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$3.05M (26) · agent Ballengee
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | 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, Chicago White 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
- $3.05M
- Guaranteed
- $3.05M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | 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 Rogers
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The Bureau on Jake Rogers
The scouting press, in their own words
Our @scottmerkin caught up with @emmaxxrodriguez, the White Sox fan who went viral after catching Jake Rogers' walk-off homer Friday night. https://t.co/3qVwTuh2zH
Jake Rogers’ August 2026 will be a great multipart documentary. https://t.co/9BlbZwXCMf
Umpire favor
+2.3 net runs over 24 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →