MLB · 1B · Cincinnati Reds
Michael Toglia
B/T S/L · 6' 5" · 226 lb · born Phoenix, AZ, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 1 · played 1B 96, DH 5, RF 4, LF 2 · MLB debut 2022-08-30
69 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Michael Toglia, a 28-year-old switch-hitting first baseman from Phoenix and a 2019 first-round pick, has 42 home runs in 290 MLB games but a .198 average and 385 strikeouts — power and swing-and-miss traveling together, as they always have.
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
- $0.21Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.21M
- Service time
- 2 yr 39 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26) · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | 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, Cincinnati Reds.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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
+0.1 net runs over 1 graded game — an even shake from the zone this season.
Biggest swings: +0.1
The line
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