Miguel Amaya
#9 C · Cubs
Height
6'1"
Weight
230 lbs
Age
27
College
N/A
Experience
3 yrs
Bats/Throws
R/R
C
C+
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Career StatsC
| Year | Team | GP | AVG | HR | RBI | OPS | SB | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career |  | 216 | 0.2358804 | 19 | 95 | 0.68803 | 0 | 142 |
Current Contract
Length
1 year
AAV
$780K/yr
Performance Analysis
C
FCA+
Miguel Amaya grades as an above average performer among MLB catchers, earning a B Performance grade. He is hitting with a 0.236 batting average and a 0.684 OPS (below the league average of .720) this season. With 17 home runs and 90 RBI through 198 games (a 14-HR, 74-RBI pace over a full season), he brings limited power to the lineup. As a player entering his prime window at 27, Miguel is a key contributor for the Cubs. A 198-game sample provides high confidence in this grade.
Fan & Media Sentiment
C+
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Miguel Amaya's public narrative sits at a modest but genuinely encouraging C+ right now — not a star turn, but a third-year catcher quietly building a reputation worth watching on a Cubs team riding a seven-game win streak and sitting at 24-12 as the No. 2 seed in the National Central. The media engine driving his current visibility is straightforwardly positive: beat coverage has latched onto his clutch home run production as a symbol of emerging offensive consistency, and multiple recent headlines have spotlighted individual home runs and multi-hit contributions in lopsided Cubs wins, the kind of recurring name-drops that start shifting a player from "depth piece" to "reliable contributor" in the public consciousness. That sentiment grade clears his performance grade by a tick, which tells a familiar story — the optics of timely hitting in a winning environment tend to outrun raw production, and Amaya is benefiting from the halo effect of a team playing its best baseball of the early season. The Cubs' recent roster activity has been largely bullpen-focused, cycling through right-handed arms and grabbing a utility infielder off waivers, which keeps the spotlight on offensive contributors like Amaya rather than diluting the narrative with a splashy positional signing. The bottom line: Amaya is exactly the kind of player whose stock quietly rises when the wins are piling up — no controversy, no injury cloud, just a young catcher doing enough in big moments to stay in the headlines for the right reasons, with the narrative holding steady and the broader context firmly in his favor.
Recent Games
| Date | OPP | Result | AB | H | R | HR | RBI | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, 5/7 | vs CIN | W 8-3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Wed, 5/6 | vs CIN | W 7-6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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About this player
Miguel Amaya is a player in his 3rd MLB season listed at C for the Cubs. FanVerdicts maintains four independent grades for every MLB player on an active roster — Contract Value Index for the deal itself, Performance for on-field production, Sentiment for media and fan reaction, and Fan Verdict for community voting. Current grades for Miguel Amaya: Contract Value Index pending, Performance C, Sentiment C+, Fan Verdict pending.
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