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Cristian Javier
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 210 lb · born Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · age 29 · played P 22 · MLB debut 2020-07-25
276 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Cristian Javier, a 29-year-old right-hander from Santo Domingo, has 657 strikeouts in 141 big-league games since his 2020 debut. The strikeout rate has always been the thing that keeps him on a roster.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $21.40M
- Tax hit
- $12.80M
- Service time
- 7 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $64M
The deal 5 years $64M (2023–2027) — $12.8M 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: 5 y/$64M (23-27) · agent MVP Spts · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 7.000 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
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
- $12.8M
- Guaranteed
- $64.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $21.0M | $21.0M |
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 Cristian Javier
The scouting press, in their own words
Before the 2024 Draft, I wrote in my report I thought a trajectory for Wake Forest SS/CF Seaver King to become Javier Baez was relatively clear. I’m feeling pretty good about that coming to fruition. https://t.co/xuZqIMRD53
Luis Arraez singles to lead off the fifth for the Phillies. That's their first hit of the day against Cristian Javier, whose only other career start at Citizens Bank Park was Game 4 of the 2022 World Series - when he threw the first six no-hit innings of a combined no-no.
Umpire favor
-0.5 net runs over 14 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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