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Shane Smith
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 240 lb · born Danvers, MA, USA · age 26 · played P 26 · MLB debut 2025-04-01
180 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Shane Smith is a 26-year-old right-hander from Danvers, Massachusetts, who debuted in April 2025. In 32 career big-league games he has struck out 156 — a strikeout-per-game arm finding his footing.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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 14 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, Chicago White 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
- $0.83M
- Guaranteed
- $0.83M
- 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.
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The Bureau on Shane Smith
The scouting press, in their own words
Updated story: Candidate pool for A’s also includes Brewers AGM Matt Kleine and Red Sox AGM Taylor Smith. Cardinals assistant GM Rob Cerfolio interviewed, but is in mix for Cardinals GM job under Chaim Bloom. With @PJ_Mooney, unlocked and free to read. https://t.co/XQxV1NvhPW
Banner is a former Red Sox exec. A's also had talks with AGMs Mike Groopman and Taylor Smith, as @Sean_McAdam reported. https://t.co/Enr1eQuQ8t
Here are the starting pitching match-ups for the DS: CWS - Smith vs. CLE - Messick ATL - TBD vs. LAD - Skubal NYY - Cole vs. TB - Rasmussen SD - Ray vs. MIlwaukee - The Miz
Umpire favor
-0.9 net runs over 3 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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