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Chase Silseth
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 217 lb · born Farmington, NM, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 11 · played P 120 · MLB debut 2022-05-13
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 7 G · 5.2 IP · 3.18 ERA · 5 SO · 0.88 WHIP
235 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Silseth came up in May 2022 out of Farmington, an 11th-round pick with 158 strikeouts in 88 career games. His last six appearances have been quieter — five strikeouts total.
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
- $0.26Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.26M
- Service time
- 1 yr 105 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$800,000 (26) · agent Icon Sports
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Texas Rangers.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- 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 Chase Silseth
The scouting press, in their own words
I wrote about Chase Silseth and how he was flourishing in the Angels bullpen a few weeks ago. His conversion to relief really took with the Angels - and now he’ll try to keep it going with Texas. https://t.co/eD0ZhfEMRT
Umpire favor
-1.7 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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