Joe Musgrove

Scout’s note

Joe Musgrove is a 33-year-old right-hander from El Cajon, California, drafted in the 2011 Competitive Balance Round A. In 206 career starts he has struck out 1,050 hitters — a workhorse's number, earned the long way.

Note written Oct 6 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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

2026 salary

$20.00M

Tax hit

$20.00M

Service time

10 yr 63 d

Guaranteed

$100M

Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 10.063 reads free_agency. 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, San Diego Padres.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$20.0M

Guaranteed

$100.0M

Term

5 yrs

His class

Extension

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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