MLB · SS · St. Louis Cardinals
Thomas Saggese
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 185 lb · born Carlsbad, CA, USA · age 24 · draft 2020 rd 5 · played SS 55, LF 22, 3B 19, 2B 15, +1 more · MLB debut 2024-09-10
273 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB — Tue, Sep 1 · night game vs. Los Angeles Dodgers The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Thomas Saggese is a Carlsbad kid and a fifth-round find who has held a big-league job for 157 games at .245. The September that matters went cold, though — 2 for 27 in his last eight MLB games with 12 strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Saggese here — The Buzz September 3, 2026 · September 2, 2026
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.
- EV95106.562
- Deserved (xVal)0.40472
- Got (aVal)0.34943
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03887
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.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 115 now.
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 75 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, 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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | 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.
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
+0.1 net runs over 17 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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