MLB · P · Toronto Blue Jays
Shane Bieber
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 200 lb · born Orange, CA, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 4 · played P 15 · MLB debut 2018-05-31
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-03): 1 G · 7.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 7 SO · 0.43 WHIP
Injured 15-Day · Right teres major inflammation (roster status, as of )
242 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
1,000 career strikeouts — Sun, Jun 28 · day game vs. Texas Rangers The scorecard → · The write-up →
Scout’s note
Orange, California product, 2016 fourth-rounder with 1,039 career strikeouts in 154 games. In his one MLB start these last two weeks, he struck out seven — the old Bieber showing up for Toronto.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Bieber here — The Buzz August 26, 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
- $16.00M
- Tax hit
- $14.56M
- Service time
- 7 yr 97 d
- Guaranteed
- $26M
The deal 2 years $26M (2025–2026) — $13.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 2 y/$26M (25-26) · agent Rosenhaus Spts · 2 / 3 options left
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 7.097 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
- $13.0M
- Guaranteed
- $26.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $16.0M |
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 Shane Bieber
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The Bureau on Shane Bieber
The scouting press, in their own words
Kyle Schwarber just took Shane Bieber deep for a three-run HR, snapping a 17-game homerless streak, which was tied for the second-longest homer drought of his career (21 games in 2020 with the Cubs).
Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 11 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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