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Sam Hentges
B/T L/L · 6' 8" · 255 lb · born Shoreview, MN, USA · age 30 · draft 2014 rd 4 · played P 56 · MLB debut 2021-04-20
176 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Sam Hentges, a 6'8" lefty from Shoreview, Minnesota, has 264 strikeouts in 213 career games and fanned six across five MLB outings these last two weeks — a reliable bullpen piece, plain and simple.
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
- $1.80M
- Tax hit
- $1.80M
- Service time
- 5 yr 157 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal A4
On the sheet: A4 · agent Warner Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| 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, San Francisco Giants.
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
- $1.40M
- Guaranteed
- $1.40M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.4M | 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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The Bureau on Sam Hentges
The scouting press, in their own words
Going through incentives, and best I can tell, here are some players who hit their incentives exactly: Sam Hentges: 45 G Austin Hedges: 70 GS Ty France: 500 PA Cal Quantrill: 110 IP Tyron Guerrero: 40.2 IP (40, so close enough) Eric Fedde: 15 GS https://t.co/spvYhMkjKR
Umpire favor
-1.6 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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