MLB · P · San Diego Padres
Griffin Canning
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 180 lb · born Mission Viejo, CA, USA · age 30 · draft 2017 rd 2 · played P 29 · MLB debut 2019-04-30
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 3 G · 5.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 5 SO · 1.40 WHIP
343 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Griffin Canning is a 30-year-old right-hander from Mission Viejo, California, a 2017 second-round pick who debuted in 2019. He has 625 career strikeouts over 136 games, with five in his last three.
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
- $1.00M
- Tax hit
- $2.50M
- Service time
- 6 yr 75 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $2.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2.5M (26)+27 m opt · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $1.5M |
| Tax hit | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $2.50M
- Guaranteed
- $2.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $5.0M |
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 Griffin Canning
The scouting press, in their own words
The Padres have seven comebacks of at least four runs this season, most in MLB, Their latest came Saturday night as Jake Cronenworth, Ty France and - yes, Griffin Canning - came through to deliver a stunning, 7-5 win over the Twins. https://t.co/JLBm2a2blB
Umpire favor
-0.4 net runs over 15 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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