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Garrett Crochet
B/T L/L · 6' 6" · 245 lb · born Ocean Springs, MS, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 1 · played P 6 · MLB debut 2020-09-18
138 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Crochet is 27, from Ocean Springs, a first-round pick who debuted in September 2020. He has 586 strikeouts in 142 big-league games — better than four per appearance.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Under contractA 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
- $28.67M
- Tax hit
- $28.33M
- Service time
- 6 yr 28 d
- Guaranteed
- $170M
The deal 6 years $170M (2026–2031) — $28.3M 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: 6 y/$170M (26-31) · agent CAA · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $28.7M | $28.7M | $28.7M | $30.7M |
| Tax hit | $28.3M | $28.3M | $28.3M | $28.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $28.3M
- Guaranteed
- $170.0M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $24.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $28.0M | $30.0M | $15.0M |
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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The Bureau on Garrett Crochet
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox notebook covers Curtis Mead's role, Jason Varitek's future, the coaching staff, some info on Garrett Crochet's shoulder and more: https://t.co/dmVamJmHE7
Garrett Crochet: "Nice to return to health, but I’m not really concerned about that...,” Crochet said “It sucks to feel like you’re a little bit at fault for the way that things went." https://t.co/DzEIrBMN4k
How does Garrett Crochet feel? "Shitty. I feel healthy, but I feel like shit."
Umpire favor
+0.9 net runs over 6 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Garrett Crochet’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · BOS vs. NYY · 0.0 IP, 1 K, 4 ER
The line
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