MLB · P · New York Yankees
Fernando Cruz
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 237 lb · born Bayamon, Puerto Rico · age 36 · draft 2007 rd 6 · played P 61 · MLB debut 2022-09-02
Injured 60-Day · Right elbow discomfort. (roster status, as of )
234 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Fernando Cruz is a 36-year-old right-handed reliever from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, drafted in the sixth round back in 2007 but not a big leaguer until September 2022. Across 251 MLB appearances he has struck out 367 — a rate that has kept him employed through five organizations and into the Yankees' pen.
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.
- 2026 salary
- $2.45M
- Tax hit
- $2.45M
- Service time
- 4 yr 35 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Suarez, Gomez & Assoc.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 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, New York Yankees.
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
- $1.45M
- Guaranteed
- $1.45M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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Umpire favor
+1.2 net runs over 24 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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