MLB · P · Kansas City Royals
Carlos Estévez
B/T R/R · 6' 6" · 277 lb · born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · age 33 · played P 2 · MLB debut 2016-04-23
Injured 60-Day · Left foot contusion. (roster status, as of )
7 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Carlos Estévez, 33, is a Santo Domingo native who has been in the big leagues since 2016 and now works out of the Royals' bullpen. Across 506 career games he has 494 strikeouts — nearly a punchout every time he takes the ball.
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
- $10.10M
- Tax hit
- $11.10M
- Service time
- 9 yr 22 d
- Guaranteed
- $22M
The deal 2 years $22M (2025–2026), club option for 2027 — $11.0M 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/$22M (25-26)+27 cl opt · agent Premier Talent Spts · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $2.0M |
| 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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $11.1M
- Guaranteed
- $22.2M
- Term
- 2 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $10.1M | $13.0M |
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.
The two sources disagree
MLB Spreadsheets has this deal at 2 yr, $22,200,000 (); Cot’s has it at 2 yr, $22,000,000 (). They are $200,000 apart on the same number of years.
We do not adjudicate. Both readings are cited and dated, and this is 19 of the 848 deals we could compare — the other 829 agree to the dollar.
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.
Collect Carlos Estévez
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Umpire favor
-0.2 net runs over 1 graded game — an even shake from the zone this season.
Biggest swings: -0.2
The line
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