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Michael McGreevy
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 220 lb · born San Clemente, CA, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 1 · played P 27 · MLB debut 2024-07-31
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 3 G · 15.1 IP · 8.22 ERA · 11 SO · 1.57 WHIP
608 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Michael McGreevy is a 26-year-old right-hander from San Clemente, California, a 2021 first-round pick out of the draft. He's struck out 171 in 46 big-league games, and over his last 14 days at the MLB level he fanned 10 across 2 appearances.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.78Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.78M
- Service time
- 0 yr 91 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$784,550 (26)
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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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.
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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The Bureau on Michael McGreevy
The scouting press, in their own words
I’ve talked a bunch on the show about how absurd Michael McGreevy’s ability to limit the run game is but always struggled to figure out how to put a more specific value on it. Of course, @PaulHembo expands on it perfectly. Amazing stuff. https://t.co/pda1GFypqs
Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 24 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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