MLB · C · Atlanta Braves
Sean Murphy
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 228 lb · born Peekskill, NY, USA · age 32 · draft 2016 rd 3 · played C 45, DH 7 · MLB debut 2019-05-19
133 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A Peekskill native and third-round pick, Murphy has caught 637 major-league games with 96 home runs and a .741 OPS. His lone appearance in the final two weeks produced a .500 average and one strikeout.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $15.00M
- Tax hit
- $12.17M
- Service time
- 7 yr 29 d
- Guaranteed
- $73M
The deal 6 years $73M (2023–2028), club option for 2029 — $12.2M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 6 y/$73M (23-28)+29 cl opt · agent Rowley Sports · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $15.0M | Option |
| Tax hit | $12.2M | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
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
- $12.2M
- Guaranteed
- $73.0M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $15.0M | $15.0M | $15.0M | $15.0M |
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.
Collect Sean Murphy
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Umpire favor
+0.6 net runs over 12 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Sean Murphy’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-3
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · ATL vs. LAD · 0-1, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · ATL vs. LAD · 1-3, HR, 1 RBI
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · ATL vs. PHI · 1-3, 2B, 1 R, 1 BB
The line
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