MLB · P · Cleveland Guardians
Erik Sabrowski
B/T R/L · 6' 4" · 230 lb · born Edmonton, AB, Canada · age 28 · draft 2018 rd 14 · played P 61 · MLB debut 2024-09-04
203 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Erik Sabrowski is a 6-foot-4 lefty from Edmonton, drafted in the 14th round in 2018, who reached Cleveland late in 2024. Across 101 big-league games he has struck out 137 — a reliever who has earned steady work.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 33 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, 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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Erik Sabrowski picked up a huge strikeout with the bases loaded.
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Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 29 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Erik Sabrowski’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL League Championship Series, Game 6 · CLE vs. TB · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 5 · CLE vs. TB · 1.2 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 3 · CLE vs. TB · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 1 · CLE vs. TB · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 1 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 5 · CLE vs. CWS · 0.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CLE vs. CWS · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CLE vs. CWS · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 2 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CLE vs. CWS · 1.2 IP, 2 K, 1 ER
The line
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