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Griffin Jax
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Phoenix, AZ, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 3 · played P 35 · MLB debut 2021-06-08
473 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Griffin Jax is a 6-foot-2 right-hander from Phoenix, a third-round pick in 2016 who has fanned 521 hitters across 333 career games. That is better than a strikeout and a half per appearance.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $6.00M
- Tax hit
- $6.00M
- Service time
- 5 yr 91 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Ballengee
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | 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, Tampa Bay Rays.
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
- $3.56M
- Guaranteed
- $3.56M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
The Wire
▲ On the field: Griffin Jax snaps a nasty 86 mph curveball.
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Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Griffin Jax’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 League Championship Series, Game 3 · TB vs. CLE · 4.0 IP, 2 K, 3 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 3 · TB vs. NYY · 2.0 IP, 4 K, 1 ER
The line
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