Foster Griffin

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FlagshipFoster Griffin #CO-FG · 2020 Topps Pro Debut Copa de La Diversion · 6 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.79Raw$11.88PSA 9$32.44PSA 10$42.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieFoster Griffin #DP24 · 2014 Bowman Draft Picks · 6 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.25Raw—PSA 9—PSA 10—BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Fifteen wins, third in baseball, with a 3.19 ERA across 149.1 innings and 135 strikeouts — and the board grade is blank. That's the paper's discipline, not an oversight. A 31-year-old from Orlando, a 2014 first-round pick who debuted in the shortened summer of 2020, Griffin gets the page because the arm matters. The stuff model isn't outcome-validated yet, so no flag. The ERA-FIP gap did clear for a regression call, filed by hand. The grade waits for the science.

Current signals

The read: Griffin is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.9

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.62M

Tax hit

$1.62M

Service time

1 yr 34 d

Options left

1 / 3

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 1.034 reads pre_arb. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Cleveland Guardians.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$5.50M

Guaranteed

$5.50M

Term

1 yr

His class

FA

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 Foster Griffin

The scouting press, in their own words