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Aaron Civale
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 245 lb · born East Windsor, CT, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 3 · played P 55 · MLB debut 2019-06-22
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 4 G · 8.2 IP · 0.00 ERA · 8 SO · 0.81 WHIP
438 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Aaron Civale, a right-hander from East Windsor, Connecticut, and a third-round pick in 2016, now with the Cubs. He has struck out 737 across 163 career games, including 8 over his last three.
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
- $2.28M
- Tax hit
- $2.28M
- Service time
- 6 yr 58 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $6M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$6M (26) · agent Jack Toffey
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 6.058 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, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $6.00M
- Guaranteed
- $6.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
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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The Bureau on Aaron Civale
The scouting press, in their own words
#Cubs roster moves today... @WatchMarquee -Jameson Taillon activated from the IL. He will start tonight, likely not at full capacity in terms of pitch count. -Aaron Civale added to the 26-man roster -Phil Maton back on the IL with knee tendinitis -Drew Pomeranz DFA'd
Umpire favor
-1.7 net runs over 23 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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