MLB · P · Minnesota Twins
Bailey Ober
B/T R/R · 6' 9" · 260 lb · born Huntersville, NC, USA · age 31 · draft 2017 rd 12 · played P 27 · MLB debut 2021-05-18
561 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Bailey Ober, a 6-foot-9 right-hander from Huntersville, NC, taken in the 12th round in 2017, has 700 strikeouts in 140 career games. He struck out 8 over his last two MLB starts of the season.
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
- $7.25M
- Tax hit
- $7.25M
- Service time
- 5 yr 93 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Ballengee
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| 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, Minnesota Twins.
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
- $5.20M
- Guaranteed
- $5.20M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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