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Sam Bachman
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 235 lb · born Indianapolis, IN, USA · age 27 · draft 2021 rd 1 · played P 47 · MLB debut 2023-05-26
227 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Sam Bachman is a first-round pick from Indianapolis, taken in 2021, with 78 strikeouts across 75 MLB appearances. His last 2 AAA games added 3 strikeouts — a small-sample minor-league stretch for a right-hander whose big-league whiff rate barely clears a batter per game.
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.
- 2026 salary
- $0.97M
- Tax hit
- $0.97M
- Service time
- 2 yr 149 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 2.149 reads pre_arb. 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, Los Angeles Angels.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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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Umpire favor
-2.3 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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