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AJ Blubaugh
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 190 lb · born Mansfield, OH, USA · age 26 · draft 2022 rd 7 · played P 64 · MLB debut 2025-04-30
401 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Right-hander AJ Blubaugh, 26, from Mansfield, OH, has 129 strikeouts in 75 MLB games. He fanned one in his lone big-league appearance over the last two weeks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 38 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Houston Astros.
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 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | 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.
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 AJ Blubaugh
The scouting press, in their own words
I hope @SlangsOnSports will have the answer to this. Who is the last pitcher to pitch in the first inning of playoff games on back to back days? AJ Blubaugh is pulling off what has to be a very rare feat.
Umpire favor
+1.6 net runs over 34 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
AJ Blubaugh’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 1.1 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
The line
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