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Jake Bennett
B/T L/L · 6' 6" · 234 lb · born Tulsa, OK, USA · age 25 · draft 2022 rd 2 · played P 25 · MLB debut 2026-05-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 2 G · 13.0 IP · 2.08 ERA · 13 SO · 0.85 WHIP
395 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jake Bennett, a left-hander from Tulsa, Oklahoma, taken in the second round in 2022. He has 61 strikeouts in 14 career appearances, including 11 across his last two.
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
- $0.51Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.51M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | 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.
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 Jake Bennett
The scouting press, in their own words
Jake Bennett is the first Red Sox rookie to throw at least six scoreless innings at Yankee Stadium since Vaughn Eshelman in 1995, per @ESPNInsights. The Yankees have scored one run in two games to start this pivotal four-game series.
Jake Bennett dominated the Yankees over six innings today. His final line: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K. He threw just 83 pitches.
On a "gutty" day for Jake Bennett, who had two outfielders to thank (at least in part) for turning things around in real time. https://t.co/bKfkgy8djI
Umpire favor
-2.9 net runs over 14 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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