MLB · RF · Kansas City Royals
John Rave
B/T L/L · 5' 10" · 194 lb · born Canton, IL, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 5 · played RF 50, CF 41, LF 30, DH 13 · MLB debut 2025-05-26
161 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
John Rave, a Canton, IL product and 2019 fifth-rounder, is a lefty-swinging right fielder with 10 homers and 15 steals in 124 career games — and he's gone 4-for-15 in MLB the last two weeks without driving in a run.
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.
- EV95105.242
- Deserved (xVal)0.38057
- Got (aVal)0.38164
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00737
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 102 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.
- Service time
- 1 yr 10 d
- Options left
- 1 / 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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- 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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Umpire favor
+1.8 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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