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Casey Mize
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 212 lb · born Springville, AL, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 1 · played P 43 · MLB debut 2020-08-19
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 2 G · 7.2 IP · 7.04 ERA · 1 SO · 1.57 WHIP
464 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Casey Mize is a 29-year-old right-hander from Springville, Alabama, taken first overall in 2018. He has 460 strikeouts over 108 big-league games, with 10 more in his last three appearances.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Mize here — The Buzz August 4, 2026
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
- $1.81M
- Tax hit
- $1.81M
- Service time
- 5 yr 111 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $6.2M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$6.15M (26) · agent Bledsoe Agency
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | 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, San Diego Padres.
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
- $6.15M
- Guaranteed
- $6.15M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | 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 Casey Mize
The scouting press, in their own words
Casey Mize suffered a freak injury Saturday when his spike got caught on the dugout steps and he slipped and sprained his right ankle. He was removed from his start against the Twins and is day to day. https://t.co/jJeceKTApK
Casey Mize turned his right ankle slipping down the dugout steps between the second and third innings, Craig Stammen said. His ankle is swollen and he is day to day.
The NL wild card race is heating up! I joined @MartyCaswell and @DSmithShow on the latest @FriarTerritory to discuss the Padres' recent surge, Ethan Salas' timeline, Casey Mize's and Robbie Ray's impact and much, much more. https://t.co/gWRPs1kUUJ
Umpire favor
-1.9 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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