Travis Bazzana

The Seam

The Note on His Phone — In college, Travis Bazzana wrote out Australia's World Baseball Classic lineup and put his own name at the top. Three years later he hit the home run — and then the league started pitching him like a man it had figured out. July 25, 2026

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Scout’s note

The first Australian taken in the first round, Bazzana debuted in April and has held his own across 124 MLB games for Cleveland, but the engine reads him warm: an EV95 of 103.9, just 25th percentile among the 406 bats we track, with results 0.0402 ahead of what the contact quality supports. That's shy of the fade line. He sits No. 376 on the breakout composite — the board takes 20 — so the line is honest until the gap closes.

Note written Oct 8 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Bazzana is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 103.9 (25th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.040 ahead of the physics — running warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 376 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

103.9

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0402

Overlay score

-0.377

WAR (season · MLB calc)

2.8

Balls in play

343

Age

24

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 January 17, 2025.

2026 salary

—

Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 153 d

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3 / 3

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

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

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.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Travis Bazzana rips an RBI double that ties ALDS Game 4 in the sixth.

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The Bureau on Travis Bazzana

The scouting press, in their own words