MLB · SS · Milwaukee Brewers
Joey Ortiz
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 192 lb · born Garden Grove, CA, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 4 · played SS 86, 3B 58, 1B 1, 2B 1 · MLB debut 2023-04-27
415 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Joey Ortiz, a Garden Grove product taken in the fourth round of 2019, is a right-handed shortstop in his fourth year with Milwaukee. He's a .244 career hitter across 440 games, and over his final three MLB games he hit .364 with a .781 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95106.257
- Deserved (xVal)0.33325
- Got (aVal)0.36153
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03411
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
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
- $2.25M
- Tax hit
- $2.25M
- Service time
- 3 yr 30 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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, Milwaukee Brewers.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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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Umpire favor
+1.9 net runs over 66 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Joey Ortiz’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 League Championship Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. LAD · 1-4, 1 RBI
- NL League Championship Series, Game 1 · MIL vs. LAD · 0-3
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · MIL vs. SD · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. SD · 1-2
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · MIL vs. SD · 0-4
The line
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