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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 29 · MLB debut 2025-08-29
603 batters faced scored this season His season card →
A moment
Payton Tolle's immaculate inning — Payton Tolle struck out the side on nine pitches. Nine pitches, three strikeouts, one pitcher, and no ball ever called. Read it →
The card rack
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FlagshipPayton Tolle [Mojo] #26 · 2026 Bowman · 212 recent sales 7N ▲10.6%
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The rookiePayton Tolle #142 · 2026 Topps Finest · 203 recent sales 7N ▲1.8%
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Scout’s note
Payton Tolle — 6-foot-6 lefty from Stillwater, Oklahoma, second-round pick in 2024. He's struck out 19 men in his last 2 MLB outings, and 185 in 32 career games. That's who he is: a strikeout arm, full stop.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Tolle here — The Buzz September 14, 2026 · August 8, 2026 · The Overnight: 6.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 K, BB (July 7, 2026)
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, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 17 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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
- $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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Payton Tolle is purely entertaining, per 10 stories gathered from 20 people who know him.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-05 · newest post 2026-10-03 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
Collect Payton Tolle
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The Bureau on Payton Tolle
The scouting press, in their own words
The Red Sox pulled Payton Tolle to give Ben Rice a different look. The look Erik Miller gave him was a middle-middle fastball. https://t.co/sSB4CjDtc6
On Tuesday, Payton Tolle, 23, will become the 2nd youngest Boston starter in 28 all-time postseason games between the @RedSox and @Yankees. The youngest, Connelly Early, was 23 when he started Game 3 last year. The oldest? John Burkett, then 38, Game 6 in 2003. @MLBNetwork
The big news from @Sean_McAdam and @SmittyOnMLB, who are in New York: Payton Tolle is the Game 1 starter. https://t.co/mFuODFGk26
Umpire favor
-3.8 net runs over 26 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Payton Tolle’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.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · BOS vs. NYY · 4.2 IP, 4 K, 1 ER
The line
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