Jonathan Aranda

Scout’s note

Jonathan Aranda, a Tijuana native, carries a .795 career OPS over 371 games, but his last 9 MLB contests tell a different story — a .200 average with 13 strikeouts.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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 December 16, 2023.

2026 salary

$3.90M

Tax hit

$3.90M

Service time

3 yr 30 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.80M

Guaranteed

$0.80M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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.

The Wire

▼ On the field: Yandy Díaz, Jonathan Aranda and Junior Caminero are a combined 5-for-34 with 13 strikeouts in the ALCS.

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