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

The card rack

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Scout’s note

A first-round pick out of Hornsby, Australia in 2024, Travis Bazzana is batting .233 in his first 93 big-league games, and his EV95 of 104.025 — 24th percentile of tracked bats — says the stat line is the player. Results within 0.0178 of what the contact supports mean nothing owed, nothing borrowed. Nine home runs and 88 strikeouts later, the engine slots him No. 298 on the breakout composite. A .121 stretch the last two weeks fits the read, not contradicts it.

Current signals

The read: Bazzana is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 104.0 (24th percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.022 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 307 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

103.95

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0216

Overlay score

-0.224

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.8

Balls in play

279

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 August 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.64Mest

Tax hit

$0.64M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

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 August 20, 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.

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