MLB · C · Seattle Mariners
Cal Raleigh
B/T S/R · 6' 2" · 235 lb · born Harrisonburg, VA, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 3 · played C 89, DH 21 · MLB debut 2021-07-11
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 13 G · .289 AVG · 7 HR · 10 RBI · 1.306 OPS
442 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
A moment
Cal Raleigh's three-homer game — Cal Raleigh hit three home runs. Three home runs by one man in one game. Read it →
On the record · career milestone this season
500 career hits — Wed, Apr 15 · night game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
3-3, 3 HR, 4 RBI, 1 BB — Mon, Aug 24 · night game vs. Philadelphia Phillies The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipCal Raleigh #149 · 2022 Topps Chrome · 556 recent sales 7N ▲2.8%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Cal Raleigh, the switch-hitting catcher from Harrisonburg, VA, has 166 career home runs in 714 games. Over his last 11 MLB games he walked seven times against 12 strikeouts — the eye is there even when the bat goes cold at .118.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Raleigh here — The Buzz August 26, 2026 · August 25, 2026 · July 21, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95107.271
- Deserved (xVal)0.39767
- Got (aVal)0.35046
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03583
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $12.67M
- Tax hit
- $17.50M
- Service time
- 4 yr 85 d
- Guaranteed
- $105M
The deal 6 years $105M (2025–2030) — $17.5M 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: 6 y/$105M (25-30)+31 v opt · agent Excel · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $13.7M | $24.7M | $24.7M | $24.7M |
| Tax hit | $17.5M | $17.5M | $17.5M | $17.5M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Seattle Mariners.
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
- $17.5M
- Guaranteed
- $105.0M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $11.0M | $12.0M | $23.0M | $23.0M | $23.0M | $20.0M |
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.
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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Cal Raleigh's three-homer game is an exception in an otherwise rough season.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-08-27 · newest post 2026-08-26 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
Collect Cal Raleigh
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The Bureau on Cal Raleigh
The scouting press, in their own words
Cal Raleigh, mired in season-long slump, suddenly looks like the Cal Raleigh of a year ago. He hits his third HR of the night, a career-high, with the Seattle Mariners on the verge of ending the Phillies' nine-game winning streak. Mariners 9, Phillies 2 (8th inning).
Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 46 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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