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Gerrit Cole
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 220 lb · born Newport Beach, CA, USA · age 36 · draft 2011 rd 1 · played P 28 · MLB debut 2013-06-11
519 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
2,300 career strikeouts — Fri, Jul 17 · night game vs. Los Angeles Dodgers The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipGerrit Cole #HA-33 · 2025 Topps Home Field Advantage · 181 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieGerrit Cole #US265 · 2013 Topps Update · 169 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Gerrit Cole, 36, out of Newport Beach, is a 2011 first-rounder in his 14th big-league season with 2,382 career strikeouts. He fanned 18 over his last three MLB starts — still the same arm, still working.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Cole here — The Overnight: 2300 career strikeouts (July 17, 2026)
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $36.00M
- Tax hit
- $36.00M
- Service time
- 13 yr 111 d
- Guaranteed
- $324M
The deal 9 years $324M (2020–2028) — $36.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 9 y/$324M (20-28) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $36.0M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $36.0M | — |
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
- $36.0M
- Guaranteed
- $324.0M
- Term
- 9 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M | $36.0M |
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.
The Wire
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Collect Gerrit Cole
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The Bureau on Gerrit Cole
The scouting press, in their own words
Gerrit Cole is warming for the Yankees in the eighth inning.
Gerrit Cole's night is over after throwing 82 pitches in five innings. Ryan Weathers gets the sixth for the Yankees. Cole's final line: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K.
The active wins leader assuming Scherzer retires will be Gerrit Cole, with 163. RIP to the 200 game winner. We will likely never see one again after Scherzer throws tomorrow.
Umpire favor
+0.6 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Gerrit Cole’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · NYY vs. TB · 5.0 IP, 5 K, 1 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →