2026 Marlins arbitration class projected to cost $13 million

[Ely Sussman]

The Miami Marlins can essentially "run it back" with the same cast of characters next season, if they choose to. Their roster consists of no pending free agents. Every player actually has multiple years of club control remaining.

That being said, a handful of Marlins are going to receive slight pay raises in 2026 via the arbitration process.

For as long as I've been covering Major League Baseball, MLB Trade Rumors has published annual estimates of the salaries that arb-eligible players will get during the upcoming season if their teams tender them contracts. From most expensive to least expensive projection, MLBTR shared the following figures for Marlins players on Monday:

• $3.7 million for Edward Cabrera (second arbitration year)
• $2.3 million for Anthony Bender (third year)
• $1.9 million for Calvin Faucher (first year)
• $1.53 million for Braxton Garrett (second year)
• $1.5 million for Ryan Weathers (first year)
• $1.3 million for Max Meyer (first year)
• $800,000 for Andrew Nardi (first year)

It is a small class relative to the rest of the league—only four other MLB teams would be spending less than the Marlins' $13.03M total projection if they tendered all of their arb-eligible guys. Jesús Sánchez ($6.5M) and Nick Fortes ($2.4M) would've been in this class as well, but they were traded in July to the Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays, respectively.

Everybody listed with the exception of Faucher missed significant chunks of the 2025 season due to injury. Those absences hurt the team's chances to contend, but also limited each player's earning power moving forward.

Miami doesn't have obvious non-tender candidates this year. If any of these pitchers get let go, it's because the front office believes their current injury is career-threatening.

The deadline to decide whether or not to tender contracts is 8 p.m. ET on November 21.

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[Robert Hanson]

Crazy that the Marlins have zero position players on their 40 man roster who are arbitration eligible in 2026. This is a young team, even by their standards.

    Only one on this list that’s remotely possible to be non tendered is Nardi, and that’s only if his back injury is career threatening/ending. Only say this due to his injury being somewhat of a mystery.