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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 75 · MLB debut 2019-08-27
265 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Rico Garcia is a 32-year-old right-hander from Honolulu, a 30th-round pick in 2016 who has logged 134 big-league games and 127 strikeouts. He has outlasted nearly every pitcher taken near him that year, which is the whole story.
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.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 127 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | 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, 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.
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 Rico Garcia
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 35 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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