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Nick Pivetta
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 210 lb · born Victoria, BC, Canada · age 33 · draft 2013 rd 4 · played P 11 · MLB debut 2017-04-30
156 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Nick Pivetta, a 33-year-old right-hander out of Victoria, BC, has 1,371 strikeouts across 262 big-league games for the Padres. He's a fourth-round pick from 2013 who keeps missing bats, and that's the whole story here.
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
- 8 yr 166 d
- Guaranteed
- $55M
The deal 4 years $55M (2025–2028) — $13.8M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 4 y/$55M (25-28) · agent CAA · 0 / 3 options left
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, San Diego Padres.
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
- $13.8M
- Guaranteed
- $55.0M
- Term
- 4 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $19.0M | $14.0M | $18.0M |
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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The Bureau on Nick Pivetta
The scouting press, in their own words
I joined the latest @FriarTerritory with @MartyCaswell and @DSmithShow to discuss the Padres moves at the trade deadline, plus Joe Musgrove/Nick Pivetta in Lake Elsinore and the source of the Padres' major offensive turnaround. https://t.co/yVHq7JTqHv
Umpire favor
-2.3 net runs over 8 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Nick Pivetta’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · SD vs. MIL · 4.1 IP, 4 K, 2 ER
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · SD vs. CHC · 3.1 IP, 4 K, 1 ER
The line
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