MLB · SS · San Diego Padres
Xander Bogaerts
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 218 lb · born Oranjestad, Aruba · age 34 · played SS 151, DH 2 · MLB debut 2013-08-20
606 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
1,000 career runs scored — Mon, Aug 31 · night game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →
200 career home runs — Wed, Apr 15 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard →
The Line of the Day
3-5, HR, 3B, 2B, 2 RBI — Thu, Sep 17 · day game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard →
The card rack
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FlagshipXander Bogaerts #133 · 2014 Topps · 99 recent sales 7N ▲0.5%
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The rookieXander Bogaerts #H550 · 2014 Topps Heritage · 44 recent sales 7N ▲7.5%
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Scout’s note
Xander Bogaerts, the Aruba-born shortstop now 34, is finishing his 2026 season on a tear — a .370 average and 1.241 OPS over his last 9 MLB games, with 7 walks against 6 strikeouts. The power is down, but the eye is sharp.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Bogaerts here — The Overnight: 1,000 career runs scored (August 31, 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.
- EV95106.460
- Deserved (xVal)0.36043
- Got (aVal)0.31217
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03182
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
- $25.45M
- Tax hit
- $25.45M
- Service time
- 13 yr 42 d
- Guaranteed
- $280M
The deal 11 years $280M (2023–2033) — $25.5M 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: 11 y/$280M (23-33) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $25.5M | $25.5M | $25.5M | $25.5M |
| Tax hit | $25.5M | $25.5M | $25.5M | $25.5M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $25.5M
- Guaranteed
- $280.0M
- Term
- 11 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M | $25.0M |
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 76 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The postseason
Xander Bogaerts’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 Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 0-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · SD vs. MIL · 1-3, 1 R
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · SD vs. MIL · 0-3, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · SD vs. MIL · 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 2-4, 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · SD vs. CHC · 2-4, HR, 1 RBI
The line
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