Bryan Baker

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FlagshipBryan Baker #2 · 2023 Choice Norfolk Tides Triple-A Champions · 0 recent sales

His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.

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Scout’s note

Baker is in the Index ungraded: the stuff model isn't outcome-validated, so no board flag — even a reliever first in saves with 35 and a 1.47 ERA over 49.0 innings. An 11th-round pick out of Fort Walton Beach, Florida in 2016, now 31, he debuted in 2021 and built a career in the Tampa Bay bullpen. The ERA-FIP luck gap cleared the bar for a regression call, filed by hand. Thirty-five saves at 1.47 is its own argument while the board catches up.

Current signals

The read: Baker is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.2

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.27M

Tax hit

$1.27M

Service time

3 yr 49 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$1.27M

Guaranteed

$1.27M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

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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