MLB · P · Toronto Blue Jays
Brendon Little
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Bryn Mawr, PA, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd 1 · played P 52 · MLB debut 2022-08-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 6 G · 5.1 IP · 3.38 ERA · 10 SO · 1.88 WHIP
104 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Brendon Little is a 30-year-old left-handed pitcher from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a first-round pick in 2017 now pitching for Toronto. He has 153 strikeouts in 148 career games and has fanned 8 over his last 5 outings.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.58Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.58M
- Service time
- 1 yr 135 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$811,900 (26) · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, Toronto Blue Jays.
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
- $0.81M
- Guaranteed
- $0.81M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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 Brendon Little
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Umpire favor
+0.7 net runs over 11 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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