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 45 · MLB debut 2026-05-03
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-11): 1 G · 1.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 1 SO · 0.00 WHIP
140 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Josh Ekness owns the best stuff grade in our tracked AAA pool — 0.99, good for the 99th percentile of 827 arms, against a median of 0.04. That is raw power, not polish. A 12th-round pick from Albuquerque in 2023, the 24-year-old right-hander has 24 strikeouts in 30.2 innings for Miami this season with a 3.23 ERA. The board calls him a watchlist arm, not a call — stuff comes first, and his comes first almost everywhere. What separates him from the back of a bullpen is whether the fastball plays when the count turns against him.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Ekness's stuff grade of 0.99 ranks in the 99th percentile of the 827 AAA arms we track (median 0.04). Stuff is not command — watchlist, not a call — but stuff comes first.
- Stuff-lite
- 0.9914
- Pitches
- 358
- Age
- 24
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, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 134 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
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
Marcus Semien RBI double again. This was off Josh Ekness. 8-4 NY.
Josh Ekness comes in for Ralston who walked 3 batters. Ekness then walks Ian Happ. 2-0 Cubs.
Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 9 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
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 | 30 | 30.2 | 3–4 | 1 | 3.23 | 24 | 1.40 |
| MLB CAREER | 30 | 30.2 | 3–4 | 1 | 3.23 | 24 | 1.40 | ||
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