MLB · DH · Chicago White Sox
Randal Grichuk
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Rosenberg, TX, USA · age 35 · draft 2009 rd 1 · played DH 78, LF 66, RF 18 · MLB debut 2014-04-28
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 10 G · .368 AVG · 2 HR · 4 RBI · 1.210 OPS
216 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Randal Grichuk, a Rosenberg, Texas native taken first round in 2009, has 223 home runs across 1,451 games — and over his last two weeks he's hit .407 with a 1.296 OPS, which at 35 is worth your attention.
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.
- EV95108.885
- Deserved (xVal)0.44287
- Got (aVal)0.45294
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02022
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
- $0.61M
- Tax hit
- $0.61M
- Service time
- 11 yr 33 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $2.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2.5M (26) · agent Excel
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 11.033 reads free_agency. 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, Chicago White Sox.
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
- $1.25M
- Guaranteed
- $1.25M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $1.3M |
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 two sources disagree
MLB Spreadsheets has this deal at 1 yr, $1,250,000 (); Cot’s has it at 1 yr, $2,500,000 (). They are $1,250,000 apart on the same number of years.
We do not adjudicate. Both readings are cited and dated, and this is 19 of the 848 deals we could compare — the other 829 agree to the dollar.
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
+1.8 net runs over 27 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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