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Shelby Miller
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 225 lb · born Round Rock, TX, USA · age 36 · draft 2009 rd 1 · played P 13 · MLB debut 2012-09-05
Injured 60-Day · Right Elbow UCL Injury (roster status, as of )
47 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Shelby Miller is 36, a first-round pick out of Round Rock, Texas, still throwing in the majors. In 302 career games he has 789 strikeouts — a long career built on a fastball that refused to die.
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
- $1.50M
- Tax hit
- $1.25M
- Service time
- 11 yr 16 d
- Guaranteed
- $3M
The deal 2 years $2.5M (2026–2027) — $1.3M 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/$2.5M (26-27) · agent Excel · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 11.016 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, Chicago Cubs.
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
- $1.25M
- Guaranteed
- $2.50M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $1.3M | $2.5M |
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 Shelby Miller
The scouting press, in their own words
Ryan Miller ('30,IA)⬇️ Keeps hands still, uses toe tap for timing. Stays through middle for sharp LD 1B. #DSMFall | @IowaSticks 👤https://t.co/YPI05uD8tU https://t.co/3wv4P3IkRF
The line
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