MLB · 3B · Texas Rangers
Josh Jung
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 214 lb · born San Antonio, TX, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 1 · played 3B 92 · MLB debut 2022-09-09
Injured 10-Day · Left calf strain (roster status, as of )
396 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipJosh Jung [Gold] #98 · 2026 Topps · 63 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-31 · paid links
The rookieJosh Jung #HA-16 · 2023 Topps Home Field Advantage · 156 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-31 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Josh Jung is hitting .294, tenth-best in the game, and the engine says he's earned every point of it. His EV95 of 105.28 sits at the 42nd percentile of 364 qualified bats — just under the 106.0 median — with a luck gap of -0.0118, meaning his results match what the physics support. Nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The San Antonio kid and 2019 first-rounder is priced right at No. 172 on our breakout composite; the board takes 20.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 378 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.
- EV95105.343
- Deserved (xVal)0.41275
- Got (aVal)0.39472
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01158
today · 30 days ago, against the 337 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
- $2.90M
- Tax hit
- $2.90M
- Service time
- 3 yr 23 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $2.9M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2.9M (26) · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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
- $2.90M
- Guaranteed
- $2.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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 Josh Jung
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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