MLB · C · Arizona Diamondbacks
James McCann
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 235 lb · born Santa Barbara, CA, USA · age 36 · draft 2011 rd 2 · played C 34, 1B 4, P 4, DH 1 · MLB debut 2014-09-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-18): 6 G · .200 AVG · 1 HR · 2 RBI · .623 OPS
130 plate appearances & 23 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career home runs — Wed, Jul 22 · day game vs. Athletics The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipJames McCann [Gold] #448 · 2024 Topps · 15 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieJames McCann [Gold] #12 · 2015 Topps · 4 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
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Scout’s note
James McCann is a 36-year-old catcher from Santa Barbara, California, drafted in the second round in 2011 and now with Arizona. He's played 997 career games with 101 home runs, and over his last six he's hitting .200 with one homer and two RBIs.
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
- $2.75M
- Tax hit
- $2.75M
- Service time
- 10 yr 28 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $2.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2.75M (26) · agent Ballengee
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 10.028 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.
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
- $2.75M
- Guaranteed
- $2.75M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $2.8M |
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 James McCann
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Umpire favor
+0.5 net runs over 13 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →