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Aaron Ashby
B/T R/L · 6' 0" · 194 lb · born Kansas City, MO, USA · age 28 · draft 2018 rd 4 · played P 63 · MLB debut 2021-06-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 7 G · 8.2 IP · 1.04 ERA · 9 SO · 0.92 WHIP
327 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipAaron Ashby #RAM-AA · 2022 Panini Mosaic Rookie Autographs · 3 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieAaron Ashby #FA-AA · 2022 Topps Finest Autographs · 91 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
This year in Milwaukee: 101 strikeouts in 72 innings, a 3.25 ERA, 13 wins ranking sixth in the sport. Ashby is 28, a 4th-round pick out of Kansas City who debuted in 2021 with 375 career strikeouts in 157 games. The Index holds him ungraded — the stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag. The ERA-FIP luck gap cleared the bar; regression calls are filed by hand.
Current signals
The read: Ashby is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $5.70M
- Tax hit
- $4.10M
- Service time
- 3 yr 88 d
- Guaranteed
- $21M
The deal 5 years $20.5M (2023–2027), unspecified option for 2028, unspecified option for 2029 — $4.1M 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: 5 y/$20.5M (23-27)+28-29 opts · agent Turner-Gary Spts · 0 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $5.7M | $7.7M | $1.0M |
| Tax hit | $4.1M | Option | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Milwaukee Brewers.
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
- $4.1M
- Guaranteed
- $20.5M
- Term
- 5 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.5M | $7.5M | $9.0M | $13.0M |
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.
Collect Aaron Ashby
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 13 | 31.2 | 3–2 | 1 | 4.55 | 39 | 1.17 |
| 2022 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 27 | 107.1 | 2–10 | 1 | 4.44 | 126 | 1.43 |
| 2024 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 14 | 28.1 | 1–2 | 0 | 2.86 | 33 | 1.06 |
| 2025 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 43 | 66.2 | 5–2 | 3 | 2.16 | 76 | 1.17 |
| 2026 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 63 | 75.0 | 13–2 | 2 | 3.24 | 104 | 1.37 |
| MLB CAREER | 160 | 309.0 | 24–18 | 7 | 3.52 | 378 | 1.30 | ||
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