MLB · 2B · Chicago Cubs
Nico Hoerner
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 200 lb · born Oakland, CA, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 1 · played 2B 120, SS 44 · MLB debut 2019-09-09
689 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Nico Hoerner, a 29-year-old second baseman from Oakland, California, and a 2018 first-round pick, owns a .278 career average across 863 MLB games. In his last 12 MLB games he's hit .227 with no home runs — but only two strikeouts.
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.
- EV95101.35
- Deserved (xVal)0.32521
- Got (aVal)0.2887
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03080
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
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $23.83M
- Tax hit
- $22.85M
- Service time
- 7 yr 14 d
- Guaranteed
- $141M
The deal 6 years $141M (2027–2032), with an opt-out — $23.5M 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: 6 y/$141M (27-32)* · agent Apex · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $23.8M | $21.9M | $21.8M | $21.8M |
| Tax hit | $22.9M | $22.9M | $22.9M | $22.9M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $11.7M
- Guaranteed
- $35.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $12.0M | $23.0M | $23.0M | $22.5M | $22.5M | $22.5M | $22.5M |
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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The Bureau on Nico Hoerner
The scouting press, in their own words
Nico Hoerner RBI single. 3-0 Cubs.
Umpire favor
-0.6 net runs over 66 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Nico Hoerner’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 Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 2-4, 2B, 1 RBI
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CHC vs. SD · 2-4
The line
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