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Jordan Hicks
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 217 lb · born Houston, TX, USA · age 30 · draft 2015 rd SUP · played P 56 · MLB debut 2018-03-29
216 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jordan Hicks is a Houston product and a supplemental pick from 2015, now 30 and throwing for the White Sox. In five MLB outings over the last two weeks he struck out seven — steady relief work from a man with 473 career strikeouts in 328 games.
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
- $12.00M
- Tax hit
- $12.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $44M
The deal 4 years $44M (2024–2027) — $11.0M 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: 4 y/$44M (24-27) · agent Ballengee · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 9.000 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, 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
- $12.0M
- Guaranteed
- $44.0M
- Term
- 4 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $12.0M | $12.0M |
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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Gavin Williams, Jordan Hicks and Parker Messick supply the filthiest pitches from the prior day.
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Umpire favor
-2.2 net runs over 23 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Jordan Hicks’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.
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CWS vs. CLE · 0.2 IP, 1 K, 1 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. CLE · 0.2 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. HOU · 2.0 IP, 3 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. HOU · 1.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
The line
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