MLB · C · St. Louis Cardinals
Pedro Pagés
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 245 lb · born Maracay, Venezuela · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 6 · played C 79, 1B 3, P 2, DH 1 · MLB debut 2024-04-07
211 plate appearances & 7 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Pedro Pagés is a 28-year-old catcher from Maracay, Venezuela, with 264 career games and a .229 average. Over his last 14 days in the majors he hit .333 with a .833 OPS in 4 games, drawing 3 walks against 3 strikeouts — a modest but disciplined stretch for a backup.
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.
- EV95106.155
- Deserved (xVal)0.35640
- Got (aVal)0.31720
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02271
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
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
- $1.20M
- Tax hit
- $1.20M
- Service time
- 2 yr 166 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1 · agent Paragon Sports
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 2.166 reads pre_arb. 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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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Umpire favor
+2.2 net runs over 33 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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