MLB · LF · Seattle Mariners
Michael Arroyo
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 160 lb · born Cartagena, Colombia · age 21 · played LF 69, 2B 53, DH 8 · MLB debut 2026-09-06
196 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Shortstop Michael Arroyo is 21, from Cartagena, Colombia, and debuted this September. He is hitting .371 with a .953 OPS in 15 major-league games, and over his last three MLB games he hit .600 with no strikeouts — a startling introduction.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Arroyo here — The Buzz September 13, 2026
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.
- Service time
- 0 yr 22 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, Seattle Mariners.
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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Umpire favor
-1.0 net runs over 4 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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