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Esteury Ruiz
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 169 lb · born Azua, Dominican Republic · age 27 · played RF 60, CF 31, LF 26, DH 1 · MLB debut 2022-07-12
255 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career stolen bases — Sat, Jul 25 · day game vs. San Diego Padres The scorecard → · The write-up →
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Scout’s note
Esteury Ruiz is 27, born in Azua in the Dominican Republic, and he has swiped 111 bases in 306 career major-league games — the kind of profile that lives on speed, not force. His sprint speed of 29.9 confirms the legs, but his EV95 of 103.6 sits below the league median of 105.8, and his results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the hitters we track. He is No. 1 on the fade board. A .216 average and .699 OPS in 109 games for Miami this season look better than an EV95 of 103.6 typically purchases, and the engine reads that gap as one that closes from above. Ruiz has 131 balls in play this season — a small sample, but the physics is the physics. What he has been given, the barrel has not fully earned.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Ruiz here — The Overnight: 100 career stolen bases (July 25, 2026)
Current signals
The read: Ruiz's results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 103.6 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 1 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 103.6
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0916
- Overlay score
- -0.81
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 29.9
- Age
- 27
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.620
- Deserved (xVal)0.32017
- Got (aVal)0.40479
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0921
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 131 now.
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
- $1.00M
- Tax hit
- $1.00M
- Service time
- 3 yr 64 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal A1
On the sheet: A1 · agent Republik Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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, Miami Marlins.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — -0.015 from a baseline of 0.4533 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : -0.0495 against the -0.015 we called.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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Umpire favor
-2.3 net runs over 33 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 14 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | .222 | .555 |
| 2022 | Milwaukee Brewers | MLB | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .111 |
| 2022 | Total | MLB | 17 | 35 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | .171 | .451 |
| 2023 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 132 | 449 | 47 | 114 | 5 | 47 | 67 | 20 | 99 | .254 | .654 |
| 2024 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 29 | 55 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 20 | .200 | .652 |
| 2025 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 19 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | .190 | .594 |
| 2026 | Miami Marlins | MLB | 109 | 213 | 38 | 46 | 6 | 17 | 34 | 26 | 82 | .216 | .699 |
| MLB CAREER | 306 | 773 | 100 | 181 | 14 | 76 | 111 | 53 | 216 | .234 | .656 | ||
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