Kyle Teel

Scout’s note

A first-rounder from Ridgewood who debuted last June, Teel has hit .253 with a .757 OPS across 117 major-league games, with 13 home runs, 61 RBIs, and 128 strikeouts.

Note written Oct 18 · 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, as of August 2, 2026.

2026 salary

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Tax hit

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Service time

1 yr 115 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.

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

$0.79M

Guaranteed

$0.79M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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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