MLB · P · Kansas City Royals
Mason Black
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 228 lb · born Scranton, PA, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 3 · played P 43 · MLB debut 2024-05-06
200 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Mason Black, a 26-year-old right-hander from Scranton, PA, taken in the third round in 2021, has 55 strikeouts in 27 career big-league games — a pure reliever's rate, and about all there is to say about him right now.
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
- 0 yr 112 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, Kansas City Royals.
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 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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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Umpire favor
-1.6 net runs over 11 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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