MLB · P · Chicago White Sox
Anthony Kay
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 225 lb · born Stony Brook, NY, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 1 · played P 33 · MLB debut 2019-09-07
710 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Anthony Kay, a 31-year-old lefty from Stony Brook and a 2016 first-round pick, has 217 strikeouts in 77 career MLB games. He struck out eight across two MLB appearances in the last two weeks, and that is the one thing worth knowing — the stuff still plays in short bursts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Under contractA 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
- $5.00M
- Tax hit
- $6.00M
- Service time
- 3 yr 6 d
- Guaranteed
- $12M
The deal 2 years $12M (2026–2027) — $6.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 2 y/$12M (26-27)+28 m opt · agent CAA · 0 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $2.0M | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | Option | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
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
- $6.0M
- Guaranteed
- $12.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.0M | $5.0M | $10.0M |
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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 Anthony Kay
The scouting press, in their own words
Lane Thomas: 1 PA short Anthony Kay: 2 IP short Cionel Perez: 1 GP Tatsuya Imai: 3.1 IP
Umpire favor
-5.7 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Anthony Kay’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 Division Series, Game 4 · CWS vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 0 K, 2 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 0 K, 1 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. CLE · 1.1 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. HOU · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
The line
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