MLB · LF · Colorado Rockies
Jake McCarthy
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 213 lb · born Scranton, PA, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd CB-A · played LF 81, CF 68, RF 24, DH 9 · MLB debut 2021-08-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-08): 4 G · .143 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .343 OPS
596 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career stolen bases — Sat, Jul 18 · day game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →
The Line of the Day
3-5, HR, 3 RBI — Sun, Sep 6 · day game vs. St. Louis Cardinals The scorecard →
4-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Sat, Aug 8 · night game vs. St. Louis Cardinals The scorecard →
The card rack
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FlagshipJake McCarthy [Gold] #243 · 2025 Topps · 19 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieJake McCarthy #RA-JMC · 2022 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 29 recent sales 7N ▲0.4%
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Scout’s note
Jake McCarthy is a 29-year-old left fielder from Scranton, Pennsylvania, a Competitive Balance Round A pick in 2018. In 578 big-league games he has 115 steals and a .269 average. His last four MLB games: .143 with three strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about McCarthy here — The Overnight: 100 career stolen bases (July 18, 2026) · 4-for-5, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 2 R (July 3, 2026)
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.
- EV95104.330
- Deserved (xVal)0.35842
- Got (aVal)0.39473
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03312
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.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $3.83M
- Tax hit
- $3.83M
- Service time
- 4 yr 74 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, Colorado Rockies.
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
- $1.52M
- Guaranteed
- $1.52M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
Collect Jake McCarthy
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Umpire favor
-0.1 net runs over 44 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →