MLB · P · Boston Red Sox
Garrett Whitlock
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 222 lb · born Snellville, GA, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd 18 · played P 47 · MLB debut 2021-04-04
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-03): 1 G · 1.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 1 SO · 0.00 WHIP
174 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Garrett Whitlock is a 30-year-old right-hander from Snellville, Georgia, an 18th-round pick in 2017 who has reached 385 strikeouts in 206 career games. He has pitched seven times in the last two weeks with five strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA 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
- $7.50M
- Tax hit
- $4.69M
- Service time
- 5 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $19M
The deal 4 years $18.8M (2023–2026) — $4.7M 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: 4 y/$18.75M (23-26) · agent Kent Matthes · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| 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, 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
- $4.7M
- Guaranteed
- $18.8M
- Term
- 4 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $7.3M | $8.3M | $10.5M |
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.
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
-1.7 net runs over 24 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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