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Emilio Pagán
B/T L/R · 6' 2" · 208 lb · born Simpsonville, SC, USA · age 35 · draft 2013 rd 10 · played P 47 · MLB debut 2017-05-03
175 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Emilio Pagán, 35, is a right-handed reliever from Simpsonville, South Carolina, drafted in the 10th round in 2013. His 626 strikeouts across 522 career games tell you everything: he's been a durable, late-inning arm for parts of nine seasons, and he still misses bats.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $10.00M
- Tax hit
- $10.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 91 d
- Guaranteed
- $20M
The deal 2 years $20M (2026–2027) — $10.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 2 y/$20M (26-27) · agent Ballengee · 0 / 3 options left
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, Cincinnati Reds.
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
- $10.0M
- Guaranteed
- $20.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $10.0M | $10.0M |
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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Umpire favor
+0.8 net runs over 17 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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