Taylor Walls

The Line of the Day

2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI — Tue, Aug 11 · night game vs. Athletics The scorecard →

Scout’s note

Taylor Walls, a switch-hitting shortstop from Cordele, Georgia, owns a .200 career average across 604 games but is hitting .300 over his last 7 MLB contests.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

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 December 16, 2023.

2026 salary

$3.10M

Tax hit

$3.10M

Service time

5 yr 92 d

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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 October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$2.45M

Guaranteed

$1.40M

Term

1 yr

His class

Extension

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: Taylor Walls bunted for a hit to lead off the fourth inning then stole second base.

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