MLB · C · Philadelphia Phillies
Rafael Marchán
B/T S/R · 5' 9" · 170 lb · born San Cristobal, Venezuela · age 27 · played C 42, DH 4 · MLB debut 2020-09-14
139 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Rafael Marchán is a 27-year-old switch-hitting catcher out of San Cristobal, Venezuela, in his seventh year with the Phillies organization. In 116 big-league games he's hit .202 with a .585 OPS — a backup whose glove keeps him employed, not his bat.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- 2026 salary
- $0.96M
- Tax hit
- $0.96M
- Service time
- 4 yr 6 d
- Options left
- 0 / 4
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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, Philadelphia Phillies.
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
- $0.86M
- Guaranteed
- $0.86M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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
+0.1 net runs over 14 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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