AAA · P · Miami Marlins
Josh Ekness
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 225 lb · born Albuquerque, NM, USA · age 24 · draft 2023 rd 12 · played P 31 · MLB debut 2026-05-03
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 7 G · 8.0 IP · 1.13 ERA · 5 SO · 0.88 WHIP
75 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ekness's stuff grade of 0.99 ranks in the 99th percentile of 763 AAA arms — near the top of the scale, and far from the 0.05 median. A 24-year-old from Albuquerque, drafted in the 12th round in 2023, he's thrown 17 innings in the big leagues with a 1.59 ERA. But stuff isn't command, and the engine files him as watchlist, not a call. What we know: the ball comes out special. What we don't: whether he can place it.
Current signals
The read: Ekness's stuff grade of 0.99 ranks in the 99th percentile of the 767 AAA arms we track (median 0.05). Stuff is not command — watchlist, not a call — but stuff comes first.
- Stuff-lite
- 0.9914
- Pitches
- 358
- Age
- 24
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
- $0.56Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.56M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Miami Marlins.
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 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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 Bureau on Josh Ekness
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox tie it up on a wild pitch from Josh Ekness. 2-2. No win for Sandy tonight.
Umpire favor
-0.1 net runs over 5 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Jupiter Hammerheads | A | 6 | 8.2 | 0–0 | 3 | 2.08 | 10 | 1.62 |
| 2024 | Jupiter Hammerheads | A | 10 | 13.0 | 1–0 | 4 | 0.69 | 21 | 0.62 |
| 2024 | Beloit Sky Carp | A+ | 34 | 49.0 | 3–3 | 1 | 1.65 | 55 | 1.00 |
| 2024 | Pensacola Blue Wahoos | AA | 4 | 4.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 9.00 | 7 | 1.75 |
| 2025 | Pensacola Blue Wahoos | AA | 43 | 52.2 | 4–1 | 10 | 2.73 | 66 | 1.16 |
| 2025 | Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp | AAA | 3 | 1.1 | 0–0 | 0 | 60.75 | 2 | 8.25 |
| 2026 | Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp | AAA | 15 | 21.0 | 2–1 | 1 | 3.86 | 33 | 1.05 |
| 2026 | Miami Marlins | MLB | 16 | 17.0 | 1–1 | 1 | 1.59 | 11 | 1.12 |
| MLB CAREER | 16 | 17.0 | 1–1 | 1 | 1.59 | 11 | 1.12 | ||
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