MLB · P · Houston Astros
Bennett Sousa
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 220 lb · born North Palm Beach, FL, USA · age 31 · draft 2018 rd 10 · played P 41 · MLB debut 2022-04-08
141 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Left-hander Bennett Sousa, a 10th-round pick from North Palm Beach, Florida, has struck out 113 in 111 career games — almost exactly one per appearance since his 2022 debut.
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
- $1.05M
- Tax hit
- $1.05M
- Service time
- 3 yr 156 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | 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, 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
- $0.91M
- Guaranteed
- $0.91M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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
-1.1 net runs over 13 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Bennett Sousa’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 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 1 ER
The line
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