Taj Bradley

A moment

Taj Bradley's immaculate inning — Taj Bradley struck out the side on nine pitches. Nine pitches, three strikeouts, one pitcher, and no ball ever called. Read it →

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career strikeouts — Fri, Jun 26 · night game vs. Colorado Rockies The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

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FlagshipTaj Bradley #AA-75 · 2023 Topps Update All Aces · 159 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

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Scout’s note

205 strikeouts for Minnesota — eighth in the game — and Bradley is only 25, a fifth-round pick from Los Angeles who debuted in 2023. Same story as every arm in the Index: the stuff model isn't outcome-validated, so no board grade. But the ERA-FIP gap cleared our bar, which means a regression call gets filed by hand. His 3.73 ERA across 178.1 innings is the context; the gap underneath it is what the board works from.

Note written Oct 14 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Bradley is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.8

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 3, 2026.

2026 salary

$4.40M

Tax hit

$4.40M

Service time

3 yr 97 d

Options left

1 / 3

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Minnesota Twins.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.80M

Guaranteed

$0.80M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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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