MLB · 3B · Chicago Cubs
Gabriel Arias
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 217 lb · born La Victoria, Venezuela · age 26 · played 3B 29, SS 25, 2B 7, 1B 4, +2 more · MLB debut 2022-04-20
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 2 G · .200 AVG · 0 HR · 2 RBI · .400 OPS
146 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Gabriel Arias, a third baseman from La Victoria, Venezuela, has been in the big leagues since 2022. In 364 career games he has 402 strikeouts — more than one per game, every game.
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
- $0.80Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.80M
- Service time
- 2 yr 124 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$801,100 (26) · agent Klutch 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 | — | — | — | — |
These figures were read off the sheet for Cleveland Guardians, dated . He is now with Chicago Cubs — a trade after that date moves the money with him, and the sheet has not caught up. Both dates are true; neither figure has been adjusted to guess at the other.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for the club whose sheet this came from, 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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- 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.
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Umpire favor
-0.9 net runs over 17 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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