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Ben Brown
B/T R/R · 6' 6" · 210 lb · born East Setauket, NY, USA · age 27 · draft 2017 rd 33 · played P 20 · MLB debut 2024-03-30
Injured 60-Day · Neck strain. (roster status, as of )
265 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ben Brown is a 6-foot-6 right-hander from East Setauket, New York, drafted in the 33rd round in 2017. Sixty major-league games in, he has 250 strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- 2026 salary
- $1.75M
- Tax hit
- $1.75M
- Service time
- 2 yr 169 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 2.169 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, Chicago Cubs.
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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The Bureau on Ben Brown
The scouting press, in their own words
Equivalents of LAD package for Skubal? Probably… Brewers - Logan Henderson, Luis Lara or Jefferson Quero, JD Thompson Rays - Brody Hopkins or Michael Forret, Brayden Taylor, Trevor Harrison Cubs - Ben Brown, Josiah Hartshorn or Pedro Ramirez, Brooks Caple
Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 16 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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