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Ben Joyce
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 225 lb · born Knoxville, TN, USA · age 26 · draft 2022 rd 3 · played P 24 · MLB debut 2023-05-29
69 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A Knoxville product and 2022 third-rounder, Joyce has 62 strikeouts in 64 career appearances out of the Angels' bullpen. His last two weeks at the MLB level amount to one outing with no strikeouts.
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.
- 2026 salary
- $1.01M
- Tax hit
- $1.01M
- Service time
- 3 yr 75 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1 · agent CAA
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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, Los Angeles Angels.
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
- $0.81M
- Guaranteed
- $0.81M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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 Ben Joyce
The scouting press, in their own words
Martinez's mechanics always have me scratching my head. It just doesn't feel like the motion below should result in a 102.6-mph four-seamer. I think we're all so obsessed with extension that we expect 102+ to always look like Misiorowski or Ben Joyce. https://t.co/EK2YGsiMVe https://t.co/KSerQLeqBA
Umpire favor
-1.0 net runs over 8 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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