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Victor Vodnik
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 216 lb · born Whittier, CA, USA · age 26 · draft 2018 rd 14 · played P 88 · MLB debut 2023-09-09
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 5 G · 5.2 IP · 3.18 ERA · 5 SO · 0.88 WHIP
216 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Victor Vodnik, a 26-year-old right-hander from Whittier, California, has just 2 strikeouts over 4 MLB outings this month, and with 158 career strikeouts in 162 games, that is who he is — a contact reliever relying on weak grounders, not whiffs.
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
- $0.23Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.23M
- Service time
- 2 yr 24 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$790,000 (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, Miami Marlins.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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The Bureau on Victor Vodnik
The scouting press, in their own words
Marlins shut out the Red Sox 4-0. Gusto, Vodnik, Junk and Fulton. Sanoja had 3 hits and 3 steals. Red Sox made 4 errors. Postgame show next on https://t.co/6NlaQF02T8
The Miami Marlins are acquiring right-handed reliever Victor Vodnik from the Colorado Rockies for infielder Connor Norby and right-hander Aiden May, sources tell ESPN.
Umpire favor
+1.2 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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