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Trevor McDonald
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 205 lb · born Mobile, AL, USA · age 25 · draft 2019 rd 11 · played P 19 · MLB debut 2024-09-29
Injured 60-Day · Right elbow strain. (roster status, as of )
310 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A right-hander from Mobile taken in the 11th round back in 2019, McDonald has 72 strikeouts in 18 big-league appearances — the one number his line carries.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.63Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.63M
- Service time
- 0 yr 14 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
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, San Francisco Giants.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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 Trevor McDonald
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
+1.0 net runs over 12 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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