MLB · DH · Texas Rangers
Joc Pederson
B/T L/L · 6' 1" · 220 lb · born Palo Alto, CA, USA · age 34 · draft 2010 rd 11 · played DH 105, 1B 9, RF 3 · MLB debut 2014-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 12 G · .071 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · .340 OPS
401 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Chase
9 HR from 250 — our pace: ≈ October 29, 2026 Follow the chase →
On the record · career milestone this season
1,000 career hits — Fri, Jul 24 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
2-4, 2 HR, 4 RBI — Mon, Jul 27 · day game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipJoc Pederson [Gold] #592 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 46 recent sales 7N ▲0.7%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-30 · paid links
The rookieJoc Pederson #192 · 2015 Topps · 41 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-30 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Joc Pederson is a 34-year-old DH from Palo Alto, California, an 11th-round pick with 240 career home runs in 1,485 games. He's hitting .080 over his last 12, but with six walks in that stretch, the approach is still there even if the hits aren't.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Pederson here — The Overnight: 2-for-4, 2 HR, K, 4 RBI (July 27, 2026) · 1000 career hits (July 24, 2026)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 377 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.
- EV95107.372
- Deserved (xVal)0.42681
- Got (aVal)0.40479
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01261
today · 30 days ago, against the 335 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
- $18.50M
- Tax hit
- $18.50M
- Service time
- 11 yr 28 d
- Guaranteed
- $37M
The deal 2 years $37M (2025–2026) — $18.5M 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: 2 y/$37M (25-26) · agent Excel · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 11.028 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Texas Rangers.
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
- $18.5M
- Guaranteed
- $37.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $18.5M | $18.5M |
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 Joc Pederson
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Umpire favor
+4.3 net runs over 41 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →