Ethan Salas

The Seam

Into View — Ethan Salas signed for a record $5.6 million at sixteen and caught Double-A pitching at seventeen. On July 29 the Padres promoted him to Triple-A El Paso — the first level of his career where feverbaseball's engine can see him at all. July 30, 2026

The Line of the Day

2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Wed, Sep 16 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard →

The card rack

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Scout’s note

Ethan Salas debuted September 2 and has played 16 major-league games, and the engine needs 80 balls in play before a percentile lands — so he is not on a board, and no name is held off one. What's missing is sample, not opinion. A 20-year-old catcher from Kissimmee, he hit .409 over his last eight MLB games with two home runs. FanGraphs has him No. 11. The contact will tell us soon enough.

Note written Sep 30 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: FanGraphs has Salas No. 11 on its in-season board. He is not on a board, and no name is held off them — what is missing is sample. He plays where our signals are measured, and a percentile lands at 80 balls in play.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

0.2

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of September 26, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.11Mest

Tax hit

$0.11M

Service time

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

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.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Ethan Salas starts behind the plate for the Padres as the youngest player ever to catch in a postseason game.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-01 · newest post 2026-09-30 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

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The Bureau on Ethan Salas

The scouting press, in their own words