Luke Weaver

Scout’s note

Luke Weaver, 33, is a first-round pick out of DeLand, Florida, in the big leagues since August 2016. In 330 career games he has struck out 811, and over his last four MLB outings he managed six — a long career settling into the later innings where the strikeouts thin out.

Note written Oct 10 · 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 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$11.00M

Tax hit

$10.32M

Service time

9 yr 112 d

Guaranteed

$22M

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

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

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

$10.3M

Guaranteed

$22.0M

Term

2 yrs

His class

FA

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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