MLB · 2B · Texas Rangers
Nicky Lopez
B/T L/R · 5' 10" · 186 lb · born Naperville, IL, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 5 · played 2B 100, SS 36, 3B 6, LF 3, +2 more · MLB debut 2019-05-14
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-22): 12 G · .130 AVG · 0 HR · 3 RBI · .377 OPS
226 plate appearances & 7 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipNicky Lopez #371 · 2025 Topps Heritage · 14 recent sales 7N ▼0.4%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieNicky Lopez #US202 · 2019 Topps Update · 7 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Nicky Lopez is a 31-year-old second baseman from Naperville, Illinois, a fifth-round pick with 8 home runs in 764 career games. He's hitting .130 over his last 12 with zero walks and seven strikeouts — the contact skills that have kept him employed have gone missing.
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 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.
- EV9599.81
- Deserved (xVal)0.2732
- Got (aVal)0.2917
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02715
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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
- $0.66M
- Tax hit
- $0.66M
- Service time
- 5 yr 139 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26) · agent CAA
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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
- $1.10M
- Guaranteed
- $1.10M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $1.1M |
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.
Collect Nicky Lopez
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-1.3 net runs over 15 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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