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Colin Rea
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 220 lb · born Cascade, IA, USA · age 36 · draft 2011 rd 12 · played P 34 · MLB debut 2015-08-11
587 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Colin Rea, 36, is a 6'5" right-hander from Cascade, Iowa, drafted in the 12th round back in 2011. He's run up 594 strikeouts across 160 career games, and his last 14 days at the MLB level — one game, one strikeout — says he's still here, still taking the ball.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Free agent after this seasonA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $1.00M
- Service time
- 7 yr 57 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $6.5M (2026), unspecified option for 2027
On the sheet: 1 y/$6.5M (26)+27 opt · agent Sterling Spts
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, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $6.50M
- Guaranteed
- $6.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $4.5M | $7.5M |
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.
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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Umpire favor
-3.5 net runs over 24 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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