Daniel Espino

The Seam

Thirty-Five Pitches — Daniel Espino's fastball survived two shoulder surgeries and came back at 100.8 miles an hour. A medical staff still decides, before each outing, how many of them he's allowed to throw. July 26, 2026

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FlagshipDaniel Espino #BTP-56 · 2024 Bowman Scouts Top 100 · 20 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieDaniel Espino #BTP-11 · 2023 Bowman Scouts Top 100 · 13 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Daniel Espino's stuff grade of 0.80 ranks in the 98th percentile of the 827 AAA arms we track, and that is the foundation of everything. A first-round pick from Panama City in 2019, he reached Cleveland this past June at 25 and has thrown 15.1 MLB innings with 25 strikeouts and a 4.11 ERA. The strikeout rate tells you the fastball-play is already there. Command will decide the rest, but the stuff comes first, and Espino has it.

Note written Oct 10 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Espino's stuff grade of 0.80 ranks in the 98th percentile of the 827 AAA arms we track (median 0.04). Stuff is not command — watchlist, not a call — but stuff comes first.

Stuff-lite

0.7999

Pitches

680

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of January 17, 2025.

2026 salary

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Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 46 d

Options left

0 / 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 September 17, 2026. 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

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.

The Wire

△ On the field: Daniel Espino gets Guardians elimination start after two shoulder surgeries.

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