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Tyler Wells
B/T R/R · 6' 8" · 270 lb · born Tulsa, OK, USA · age 32 · draft 2016 rd 15 · played P 115 · MLB debut 2021-04-04
277 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Tyler Wells, a 6-foot-8 right-hander from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has 361 strikeouts across 156 career major-league games. He's been in the big leagues since 2021 and is now 32.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
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
- $3.75M
- Tax hit
- $3.75M
- Service time
- 5 yr 132 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A4
On the sheet: A4 · agent Wasserman
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
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 . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $2.46M
- Guaranteed
- $2.46M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Tyler Wells gets a huge strikeout, K'ing Jose Ramirez to end the 8th.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-19 · newest post 2026-10-18 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Tyler Wells
The scouting press, in their own words
https://t.co/tkP8SjenKq In the wake of their Game 1 baserunning blunder, Yankees need to remember who they are and not try to beat the Rays at their own game (Wells, 477th in sprint speed, mistook himself for a fast guy)
And there goes Rays ace Drew Rasmussen's no-hitter with two outs in the 8th, but Austin Wells tries to stretch a double into a triple, and is thrown out anyways. Rays lead, 1-0, in the 8th.
Umpire favor
-0.6 net runs over 29 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Tyler Wells’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL League Championship Series, Game 5 · TB vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 3 · TB vs. CLE · 2.0 IP, 4 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 1 · TB vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 0 K, 2 ER
The line
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