MLB · DH · New York Mets
Jorge Polanco
B/T S/R · 6' 0" · 208 lb · born San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic · age 33 · played DH 43, 1B 4 · MLB debut 2014-06-26
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 3 G · .273 AVG · 0 HR · 1 RBI · .546 OPS
Injured 60-Day (roster status, as of )
145 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jorge Polanco, 33, is a switch-hitting DH from San Pedro de Macoris with 1,118 big-league games and 156 career home runs. His last 14 days are ugly — .077 with 12 strikeouts in eight games — and at his age, a slump like that gets noticed.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95104.633
- Deserved (xVal)0.2873
- Got (aVal)0.2201
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05493
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 100 now.
What he’s paid
Under contractA 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
- $17.00M
- Tax hit
- $20.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 24 d
- Guaranteed
- $40M
The deal 2 years $40M (2026–2027) — $20.0M 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: 2 y/$40M (26-27) · agent Octagon (Ulises Cabrera) · 0 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $23.0M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $20.0M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Mets.
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
- $20.0M
- Guaranteed
- $40.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $14.0M | $20.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Jorge Polanco
The scouting press, in their own words
Jorge Polanco, who was signed to replace Pete Alonso at 1B, finishes his season with 37 games, 20 hits, 2 HRs and 6 RBI. He will undergo season-ending ankle surgery, the Mets announce.
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 15 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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