MLB · CF · Pittsburgh Pirates
Billy Cook
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 204 lb · born Layton, UT, USA · age 27 · draft 2021 rd 10 · played CF 51, RF 23, LF 21, 1B 7, +1 more · MLB debut 2024-09-08
87 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Billy Cook is a 27-year-old center fielder from Layton, Utah, a 2021 tenth-round pick who debuted in September 2024. He has seven steals in 106 career MLB games but a .207 average, and his last three MLB games brought three strikeouts and one RBI — the speed is real, the bat is still catching up.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 8 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Pittsburgh Pirates.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | 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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Umpire favor
+0.8 net runs over 7 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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