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Payton Tolle
B/T L/L · 6' 6" · 250 lb · born Stillwater, OK, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 2 · played P 25 · MLB debut 2025-08-29
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-26): 3 G · 18.1 IP · 2.45 ERA · 17 SO · 0.98 WHIP
505 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipPayton Tolle [Mojo] #26 · 2026 Bowman · 700 recent sales 7N ▼6.2%
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The rookiePayton Tolle #142 · 2026 Topps Finest · 259 recent sales 7N ▼4.1%
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Scout’s note
Payton Tolle, a 23-year-old left-hander from Stillwater, Oklahoma, taken in the 2024 second round, has 147 strikeouts in 27 appearances. Eighteen of those came in his last two games — the misses are coming in bunches.
We wrote about Tolle here — The Buzz August 8, 2026 · The Overnight: 6.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 K, BB (July 7, 2026)
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
- $0.68Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.68M
- Service time
- 0 yr 31 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (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, 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
- $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.
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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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-4.1 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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