AAA · P · St. Paul Saints (MIN)
Marco Raya
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 170 lb · born Laredo, TX, USA · age 24 · draft 2020 rd 4 · played P 40 · MLB debut 2026-06-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 5 G · 6.1 IP · 1.42 ERA · 12 SO · 0.79 WHIP
Reassigned to Minors (roster status, as of )
66 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipMarco Raya [White Sparkle Prizm] #PDP128 · 2020 Panini Prizm Draft Picks · 0 recent sales
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieMarco Raya #BD-63 · 2020 Bowman Draft · 16 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
A fourth-round pick out of Laredo, Texas, in 2020, Raya carries a stuff grade of 0.74 — 97th percentile of the 745 AAA arms we track, where the median sits at 0.05. Stuff is not command, and that's the line between a watchlist and a call, but stuff comes first. Three appearances since his June 27 debut: four strikeouts, a 3.00 ERA over six innings. At 24, the grade says the arm plays; six innings isn't enough to say more.
Current signals
The read: Raya's stuff grade of 0.77 ranks in the 97th 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
- 0.7742
- Pitches
- 862
- 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
- $0.24Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.24M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 2 / 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, Minnesota Twins.
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 | 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.
Collect Marco Raya
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 2 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Fort Myers Mighty Mussels | A | 19 | 65.0 | 3–2 | 0 | 3.05 | 76 | 1.08 |
| 2023 | Cedar Rapids Kernels | A+ | 11 | 33.2 | 0–1 | 0 | 2.94 | 39 | 0.92 |
| 2023 | Wichita Wind Surge | AA | 11 | 29.0 | 0–3 | 0 | 5.28 | 26 | 1.24 |
| 2024 | Wichita Wind Surge | AA | 24 | 92.2 | 3–4 | 0 | 4.27 | 99 | 1.38 |
| 2024 | St. Paul Saints | AAA | 1 | 5.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 1.00 |
| 2025 | St. Paul Saints | AAA | 30 | 98.2 | 2–8 | 0 | 6.02 | 102 | 1.62 |
| 2026 | St. Paul Saints | AAA | 37 | 53.1 | 4–5 | 3 | 6.08 | 60 | 1.29 |
| 2026 | Minnesota Twins | MLB | 3 | 6.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 3.00 | 4 | 1.33 |
| MLB CAREER | 3 | 6.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 3.00 | 4 | 1.33 | ||
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