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Blake Snell
B/T L/L · 6' 4" · 225 lb · born Seattle, WA, USA · age 33 · draft 2011 rd C-A · played P 16 · MLB debut 2016-04-23
192 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Blake Snell, 33, from Seattle, has 1,495 strikeouts in 231 big-league games. He struck out three in his lone MLB start these last two weeks — a career built on missing bats.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Snell here — The Buzz October 15, 2026 · September 17, 2026 · August 12, 2026
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.
- 2026 salary
- $27.33M
- Tax hit
- $31.31M
- Service time
- 10 yr 72 d
- Guaranteed
- $182M
The deal 5 years $182M (2025–2029), with an opt-out — $36.4M 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/$182M (25-29)+cdl opt* · agent Boras Corp. · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $26.9M | $26.5M | Cond. option |
| Tax hit | $31.3M | $31.3M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Dodgers.
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
- $31.1M
- Guaranteed
- $182.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $26.0M | $26.0M | $26.0M | $26.0M | $10.0M |
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.
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Jake Bauers works an 11-pitch at-bat into a go-ahead two-run homer off Blake Snell.
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The Bureau on Blake Snell
The scouting press, in their own words
Blake Snell did not throw a left-on-left changeup tonight until the 7th inning, when he threw 4. 3 were to Bauers, who later homered on a fastball. 1 was to Mitchell, for the home run. @MLBNetwork
You know, leaving Blake Snell in a game in late innings because he's cruising and on a roll may not be a slam dunk decision.
Blake Snell had not given up a HR in his 10 starts this season. He gave up three HRs tonight, including back-to-back homers to left-handed hitters.
Umpire favor
-1.3 net runs over 10 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Blake Snell’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.
- NL League Championship Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. MIL · 6.0 IP, 9 K, 4 ER
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. ATL · 3.2 IP, 5 K, 1 ER
The line
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