MLB · RF · Miami Marlins
Esteury Ruiz
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 169 lb · born Azua, Dominican Republic · age 27 · played RF 45, CF 26, LF 26, DH 1 · MLB debut 2022-07-12
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 12 G · .148 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .429 OPS
192 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 →
The card rack
FlagshipEsteury Ruiz #BSA2-ERU · 2024 Topps Baseball Stars Autograph · 16 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
The rookieEsteury Ruiz #88 · 2023 Topps X Bob Ross The Joy Of · 35 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases. · Flagship = his most-traded card (the market’s reference); the rookie = the top card of his first card year. As of August 28, 2026 · trend is FVR's own nightly archive · prices via SportsCardsPro · what these terms mean
Scout’s note
Esteury Ruiz hasn't put enough balls in play for the engine to grade him this season, so the page holds its breath. What the box score does show is a man who can fly: 28 steals in 78 games for Miami, eighth in the sport, and an .862 OPS well above his career .683. Born in Azua in the Dominican Republic, Ruiz debuted in 2022 and has swiped 105 bases in 275 career games. The engine stays quiet until the contact sample grows.
We wrote about Ruiz here — The Overnight: 100 career stolen bases (July 25, 2026)
Current signals
The read: Ruiz is tracked, not flagged — he hasn't logged enough qualified balls in play for the engine to grade him this season.
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
- $0.79Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.79M
- Service time
- 2 yr 64 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$791,500 (26) · agent Republik Spts
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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.
Collect Esteury Ruiz
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
Esteury Ruiz cards on eBay →Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases.
Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
The Bureau on Esteury Ruiz
The scouting press, in their own words
Esteury Ruiz takes Paul Skenes deep to LF. That was unexpected. 1-0 Marlins.
Umpire favor
+0.7 net runs over 20 graded games — the zone was kind to him 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 | 89 | 158 | 34 | 38 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 20 | 61 | .241 | .793 |
| MLB CAREER | 286 | 718 | 96 | 173 | 14 | 70 | 106 | 47 | 195 | .241 | .674 | ||
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →