MLB · C · Los Angeles Angels
Travis d'Arnaud
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Long Beach, CA, USA · age 37 · draft 2007 rd C-A · played C 29, DH 2 · MLB debut 2013-08-17
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 7 G · .077 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .277 OPS
68 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Travis d'Arnaud is a 37-year-old catcher from Long Beach, California, in his second decade behind the plate with 972 games and 130 home runs on the ledger. Over three games the last two weeks he's hit .400 with a .900 OPS.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $6.00M
- Tax hit
- $6.00M
- Service time
- 12 yr 44 d
- Guaranteed
- $12M
The deal 2 years $12M (2025–2026) — $6.0M 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: 2 yr/$12M (25-26) · agent Wasserman · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 12.044 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Angels.
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
- $6.0M
- Guaranteed
- $12.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $6.0M |
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.
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
0.0 net runs over 4 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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