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Josh Walker
B/T L/L · 6' 6" · 225 lb · born Otisville, NY, USA · age 31 · draft 2017 rd 37 · played P 55 · MLB debut 2023-05-16
126 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Josh Walker is 31, a 37th-round pick out of Otisville, New York, and in 58 major-league relief appearances he has struck out 60 hitters — a late-blooming lefty who has earned every inch of his roster spot.
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.
- Service time
- 1 yr 25 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Baltimore Orioles.
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.
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The Bureau on Josh Walker
The scouting press, in their own words
Being afraid to let Walker Buehler face a handful of lefties twice but letting Brewers hitters see Bradgley Rodriguez four games in a row is the type of fear-based, illogical and counterproductive move that gets teams eliminated. Epidemic across baseball in the postseason.
2027 SS Reid Walker showing the gamer profile in a loud week thus far. Quiet setup with a quick-twitch trigger and present bat-to-ball skills. 3-run 96 EV 💣; 8 RBI through 3 G Tools to stick in the dirt for the @PB_Uncommitted SS. @PrepBaseballIN || @indy2022 #PBFallInvite26 https://t.co/eGPqRoaIGZ
Umpire favor
+0.9 net runs over 15 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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