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Max Rajcic
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 240 lb · born Orange, CA, USA · age 25 · draft 2022 rd 6 · played P 32 · MLB debut 2026-06-18
Injured 60-Day · Right elbow soreness. (roster status, as of )
39 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Max Rajcic is a 25-year-old right-hander from Orange, California, a 6th-round pick in 2022 who debuted this June. He has 6 big-league appearances and 8 strikeouts — a small body of work for a 240-pound starter still in his first taste.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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 102 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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.
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The Bureau on Max Rajcic
The scouting press, in their own words
Cardinals in a tough spot. Need to add to roster to be competitive, obviously, but there aren't a ton of cuts on the 40-man here. Aggressively maybe five? Stanek only FA. two open spots right now, one goes to Rajcic.
Umpire favor
+0.6 net runs over 4 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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