Eric Sogard Salary Breakdown And Net Worth

Eric Sogard earned an annual salary of $4.5 million in 2020 and 2021. His career earnings is $14,006,244.

MLB infielder Sogard has had sixteen different contracts signed over the duration of his career in the major league.

His first earning was the one-year $400,000 signing bonus from the San Diego Padres in 2007. It is the only signing bonus he has ever received in his entire career.

Later in 2011, after he was traded to the Oakland Athletics, he signed a six-year deal worth $4,476,500. He received $414,000 in his first year while earning north of a million in his final two seasons.

Sogard's next significant stay in MLB was with the Milwaukee Brewers. Initially signing a minor league contract with the team at the end of the 2016 season, he earned $2,935,000 during his two-year stint with the team from Wisconsin. 

He spent the 2019 season with two different teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays, earning a total salary of $1,055,000 for the contract he had signed with the Blue Jays as a free agent before getting traded to the Rays.

For the 2020 season, Eric returned to the Brewers by signing a one-year contract worth $4,500,000 with an option attached to it. 

Finally, for what has been his final season in major league baseball as of yet, he signed yet another one-year deal with the Chicago Cubs worth $639,744 in 2021, taking his total career earnings to $14,006,244.

Eric Sograd net worth is estimated to be $2.5 million in 2023. Most of his worth is thanks to his career earnings as a player.

Apart from earning his salaries as a player in the major league, Eric has amassed some wealth through several endorsements, sponsorships, and partnerships over the years.

He partnered with The Glove Lab in 2020 to improve his baseball gloves and add more leather. Sograd also teamed up with VukGripz in 2020, who provided him with their gloves to help better grip the baseball bat.

Likewise, he also worked with the Swing Kingdom in June 2021 to design a playset for his five kids, whom he shares with his wife, Kaycee Sogard.

We can imagine a considerable amount of his net worth was used in building this playset for his kids, considering the average price for a standard playset is around $500-$1000.

Of his five kids, two of them are adopted. When talking to Today, Kaycee stated that adopting a child could be a financial burden. Still, thanks to Eric's career as a professional in the big leagues, they had it comparably easy.

Eric married Kaycee in December 2011. They went to the Tenerife Sea to celebrate their tenth anniversary and renew their vows.

Sograd and his spouse reside in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they have their house. Purchased in 2014 for $760,000, his residence is one of the important parts of his total worth. With a size of 3,831 Sqft, the house sits at a lot size of 36,762 Sqft.

They also own a skoolie and a Vanna Adventure Van. A skoolie costs anywhere between $20,000 to $30,000.

For most of his career, Eric signed minor league contracts and didn't end up staying for long at teams aside from his first major league team, Athletics. Not being consistent was one of the reasons why his net worth sits at a comparatively low value compared to other players such as Jake Peavy.

Hence why, even after playing for more than a decade in such a lucrative league, he left the money on the table, which he could've had if his career trajectory had been different.

Currently, Sograd is in Japan to participate in the World Baseball Classic as a member of the Czech Republic national baseball team.