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Patrick Sandoval
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 190 lb · born Mission Viejo, CA, USA · age 29 · draft 2015 rd 11 · played P 17 · MLB debut 2019-08-05
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 2 G · 11.0 IP · 2.45 ERA · 13 SO · 1.27 WHIP
227 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Patrick Sandoval, a left-hander from Mission Viejo, California, now throwing for Boston. He has 564 strikeouts across 114 career games, and 15 over his last three appearances.
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
- $12.75M
- Tax hit
- $9.13M
- Service time
- 5 yr 149 d
- Guaranteed
- $18M
The deal 2 years $18.3M (2025–2026) — $9.1M 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: 2 y/$18.25M (25-26) · agent Wasserman · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | 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, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $9.1M
- Guaranteed
- $18.3M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $12.8M |
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 Patrick Sandoval
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox lose, 8-3. It was not a good day for Patrick Sandoval or Brayan Bello. https://t.co/LVhQ0tBMQu
Red Sox going Tolle, TBD, Sandoval vs. the Mariners. No mention of Sonny Gray.
Umpire favor
-2.4 net runs over 8 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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