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Rico Garcia
B/T R/R · 5' 9" · 215 lb · born Honolulu, HI, USA · age 32 · draft 2016 rd 30 · played P 65 · MLB debut 2019-08-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 7 G · 6.0 IP · 1.50 ERA · 6 SO · 1.17 WHIP
235 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A 30th-round pick from Honolulu, Garcia is 32 years old with 117 career games and 113 strikeouts, and seven appearances in the last 14 days.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $0.90Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.90M
- Service time
- 1 yr 127 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.9M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$900,000 (26) · agent Gaeta Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, Baltimore Orioles.
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
- $0.90M
- Guaranteed
- $0.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
Collect Rico Garcia
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The Bureau on Rico Garcia
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Umpire favor
+0.3 net runs over 31 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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