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MacKenzie Gore
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 193 lb · born Wilmington, NC, USA · age 27 · draft 2017 rd 1 · played P 29 · MLB debut 2022-04-15
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-03): 3 G · 15.0 IP · 3.00 ERA · 15 SO · 1.60 WHIP
664 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
MacKenzie Gore, a 27-year-old lefty from Wilmington, North Carolina, has 758 strikeouts in 134 career major-league games. Over his last 14 days at the MLB level he's made three starts and struck out 15 — which is what a first-round pick is supposed to look like.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $5.60M
- Tax hit
- $5.60M
- Service time
- 4 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $5.6M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$5.6M (26) · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, Texas Rangers.
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
- $5.60M
- Guaranteed
- $5.60M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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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Umpire favor
-5.5 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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