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Shane McClanahan
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 210 lb · born Baltimore, MD, USA · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 1C · played P 25 · MLB debut 2020-10-05
496 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Shane McClanahan, the lefty from Baltimore and the 2018 first compensatory round, has 562 strikeouts in 98 major-league games. That is the whole case — a power arm whose career line is built on missing bats.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about McClanahan here — The Buzz October 12, 2026 · August 1, 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
- $6.75M
- Tax hit
- $6.75M
- Service time
- 5 yr 158 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A4
On the sheet: A4 · agent Vayner 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, Tampa Bay Rays.
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
- $3.60M
- Guaranteed
- $3.60M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Shane McClanahan has been ruled out for the rest of the Rays' postseason.
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Umpire favor
+0.9 net runs over 20 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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