MLB · P · Toronto Blue Jays
Paul Sewald
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 219 lb · born Las Vegas, NV, USA · age 36 · draft 2012 rd 10 · played P 92 · MLB debut 2017-04-08
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-18): 1 G · 1.2 IP · 0.00 ERA · 1 SO · 0.60 WHIP
186 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
500 career strikeouts — Mon, Jun 15 · night game vs. Los Angeles Angels The scorecard → · The write-up →
100 career saves — Wed, May 27 · day game vs. San Francisco Giants The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipPaul Sewald [Image Variation] #524 · 2024 Topps Heritage · 24 recent sales 7N ▲0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-29 · paid links
The rookiePaul Sewald #BDPP117 · 2012 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects · 7 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Paul Sewald is a 36-year-old right-handed reliever from Las Vegas in his tenth big-league season, with 515 strikeouts across 427 games. He has appeared once in the last two weeks.
We wrote about Sewald here — The Overnight: 500 career strikeouts (June 15, 2026)
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
- $0.37M
- Tax hit
- $0.37M
- Service time
- 7 yr 72 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $1.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$1.5M (26) · agent ISE
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 7.072 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Toronto Blue Jays.
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
- $1.50M
- Guaranteed
- $1.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $1.5M |
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.
Collect Paul Sewald
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The Bureau on Paul Sewald
The scouting press, in their own words
The radar gun kept telling you one thing. Paul Sewald kept telling you something else. That was the lesson. Before pitch data, release metrics and extension became everyday language, Paul’s father, Mark, and I had conversations about why his fastball played harder than the https://t.co/BrpU603FwX
Umpire favor
+0.3 net runs over 23 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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