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Connor Thomas
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 200 lb · born Tifton, GA, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 5 · played P 73 · MLB debut 2025-03-29
132 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A left-hander from Tifton, Georgia, taken in the fifth round in 2019, Thomas has 23 strikeouts across 21 MLB games — a pitch-to-contact profile in its earliest chapters.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- Service time
- 1 yr 46 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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.
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 Connor Thomas
The scouting press, in their own words
PLive Card of the Day Number 96: A 1996 Leaf Preferred Steel Insert of Frank Thomas "The Big Hurt" earned his nickname over the course of 19 seasons spent crushing baseballs. Thomas ended his MLB tenure with a total of 521 home runs to his name, with the bulk of those coming as https://t.co/6CBWHDUG0n
Umpire favor
+0.8 net runs over 10 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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