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George Kirby
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 215 lb · born Rye, NY, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 1 · played P 30 · MLB debut 2022-05-08
741 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
George Kirby is a 28-year-old right-hander from Rye, New York, taken in the first round of 2019. Over 142 major-league outings he has struck out 769, and the command behind those numbers is what his line is built on.
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
- $10.55M
- Tax hit
- $10.55M
- Service time
- 4 yr 151 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent CAA
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 4 | 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, Seattle Mariners.
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
- $6.55M
- Guaranteed
- $6.55M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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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The Bureau on George Kirby
The scouting press, in their own words
NEWS: The Baltimore Orioles are hiring Regional Scout Ty Holub away from the Seattle Mariners to become a Sr. Analyst in their scouting department. Big get for the Orioles. Huge loss for Seattle. Holub was the signing scout on George Kirby, Jonny Farmelo, Brody Hopkins, Ben
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Umpire favor
-4.9 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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