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Walker Buehler
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 185 lb · born Lexington, KY, USA · age 32 · draft 2015 rd 1 · played P 32 · MLB debut 2017-09-07
651 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Walker Buehler, 32, from Lexington, Kentucky, and a 2015 first-round pick, has 977 strikeouts in 189 career major-league games, and his lone MLB start these last two weeks added three more to a pile that needs no introduction.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $1.50M
- Guaranteed
- $1.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $1.5M |
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: Yanking Walker Buehler after 3 IP while hitters saw Bradgley Rodriguez four straight games was fear-based.
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The Bureau on Walker Buehler
The scouting press, in their own words
Being afraid to let Walker Buehler face a handful of lefties twice but letting Brewers hitters see Bradgley Rodriguez four games in a row is the type of fear-based, illogical and counterproductive move that gets teams eliminated. Epidemic across baseball in the postseason.
Umpire favor
-3.4 net runs over 31 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Walker Buehler’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.
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · SD vs. MIL · 3.0 IP, 0 K, 1 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →