MLB · LF · Cleveland Guardians
CJ Kayfus
B/T L/L · 5' 11" · 192 lb · born Boca Raton, FL, USA · age 24 · draft 2023 rd 3 · played LF 23, RF 17, 1B 9, DH 7 · MLB debut 2025-08-02
25 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
CJ Kayfus is a left-handed-hitting first baseman from Boca Raton, a 2023 third-round pick who debuted in August. Through 53 games he is hitting .214 with a .697 OPS and five home runs — a bat still adjusting to the leap.
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
- 0 yr 77 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Cleveland Guardians.
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 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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
+0.5 net runs over 4 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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