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Ben Brown
B/T R/R · 6' 6" · 210 lb · born East Setauket, NY, USA · age 26 · 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, a 6-foot-6 right-hander from East Setauket, New York, taken in the 33rd round of the 2017 draft, pitches for the Cubs. He has 250 strikeouts in 60 career appearances.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.80Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.80M
- Service time
- 1 yr 169 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$801,000 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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
Cubs baseball president Jed Hoyer talks here about how and why he landed Clay Holmes. In full pod he talks Cabrera, Steele, Brown, Brewers, PCA, Skubal, more. We talk NYY offense YouTube: https://t.co/WQRmVFECHG Apple: https://t.co/VttXfkSekR Spotify: https://t.co/zyucR067WZ https://t.co/hwRidHgf4h
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
-2.7 net runs over 17 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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