Carlos Vargas

Scout’s note

Carlos Vargas, a 26-year-old right-hander from Moca in the Dominican Republic, has 78 strikeouts across 91 major-league games for Seattle, including three in three MLB appearances over the last two weeks.

Note written Oct 12 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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

2026 salary

$0.81M

Tax hit

$0.81M

Service time

2 yr 140 d

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Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 2.140 reads pre_arb. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

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

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.79M

Guaranteed

$0.79M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-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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