MLB · SS · Baltimore Orioles
José Barrero
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 211 lb · born Havana, Cuba · age 28 · played SS 80, 3B 40, 2B 5, DH 5 · MLB debut 2020-08-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-27): 2 G · .167 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .334 OPS
150 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
José Barrero, a Havana-born shortstop in the Orioles system, is a .182 hitter across 161 big-league games with 172 strikeouts. Over the last two weeks at AAA he hit .250 with a .812 OPS, but the swing-and-miss (9 SO in 11 games) still shows.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.06Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.06M
- Service time
- 2 yr 50 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, Baltimore Orioles.
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.
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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 line
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