MLB · 3B · Miami Marlins
Graham Pauley
B/T L/R · 6' 1" · 200 lb · born Alpharetta, GA, USA · age 26 · draft 2022 rd 13 · played 3B 92, 1B 13, 2B 6, DH 3 · MLB debut 2024-03-20
192 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Graham Pauley is a 26-year-old third baseman from Alpharetta, GA, a 13th-round pick in 2022 who debuted in March 2024. Across 137 MLB games he has hit .209 with a .636 OPS and 88 strikeouts, and his last five MLB games in late September produced a .222 average with a .444 OPS and no runs driven in — the year simply did not turn.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 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.
- EV95104.026
- Deserved (xVal)0.3038
- Got (aVal)0.32123
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02915
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 107 now.
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 112 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Miami Marlins.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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 Graham Pauley
The scouting press, in their own words
Graham Pauley RBI single. He is 3-5 and it is 15-11 I think.
Umpire favor
-0.9 net runs over 17 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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