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Josh Simpson
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 190 lb · born Stafford, CT, USA · age 29 · draft 2019 rd 32 · played P 41 · MLB debut 2025-06-21
58 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Josh Simpson, a left-hander from Stafford, Connecticut, and a 2019 32nd-round pick, reached the majors in June 2025 and has 46 strikeouts in 39 games out of the Mariners' bullpen. He throws from the left side and misses a bat an appearance.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 1 yr 143 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| 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, Seattle Mariners.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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.
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The Bureau on Josh Simpson
The scouting press, in their own words
Scoring change: The Chandler Simpson infield single was changed to an error on George Lombard Jr. That's five errors for the Yankees tonight, tied for the most ever by the Yankees in a postseason game, per @ESPNInsights. They also made five errors in Game 2 of the 1976 ALCS.
Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 3 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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