MLB · C · Tampa Bay Rays
Nick Fortes
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 198 lb · born Miami, FL, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 4 · played C 91, DH 2 · MLB debut 2021-09-18
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 4 G · .154 AVG · 0 HR · 1 RBI · .385 OPS
290 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Nick Fortes is a 29-year-old right-handed catcher from Miami, a 2018 fourth-round pick in his sixth big-league season. He's hit .231 with 32 home runs in 493 career games, and over his last 14 days at the MLB level he went 1-for-11 with a .091 average — a backup catcher living through a cold stretch.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95105.241
- Deserved (xVal)0.31010
- Got (aVal)0.32021
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01527
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
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
- $2.54M
- Tax hit
- $2.54M
- Service time
- 3 yr 149 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $2.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2.535M (26) · agent Meister Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.
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
- $2.54M
- Guaranteed
- $2.54M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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
-0.4 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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