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Ian Seymour
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 215 lb · born Madison, CT, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd 2 · played P 47 · MLB debut 2025-06-09
551 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ian Seymour, a 27-year-old left-hander from Madison, Connecticut, taken in the second round in 2020, has 222 strikeouts in 66 major-league games for Tampa Bay, including three more in two MLB outings over the last two weeks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 85 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Tampa Bay Rays.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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.
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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Filthiest pitches yesterday: Peralta, Messick, Seymour, Baker and Cecconi.
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The Bureau on Ian Seymour
The scouting press, in their own words
Kevin Cash brings in Ian Seymour for a left on left matchup vs. Chase DeLauter despite his .323/.374/.470 line against southpaws this year.
Willson Contreras won’t play tonight. No Rutschman or Duran against the lefty Ian Seymour. Anthony LF Sogard 1B Jones DH Abreu RF Story SS Durbin 3B Kiner-Falefa 2B Eaton CF Wong C
Umpire favor
-0.5 net runs over 35 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Ian Seymour’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 League Championship Series, Game 4 · TB vs. CLE · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 2 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 2 · TB vs. CLE · 1.1 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 1 · TB vs. CLE · 0.2 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 3 · TB vs. NYY · 1.1 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · TB vs. NYY · 3.0 IP, 4 K, 1 ER
The line
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