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Joel Kuhnel
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 290 lb · born Goldsboro, NC, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 11 · played P 96 · MLB debut 2019-08-16
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-05): 4 G · 4.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 6 SO · 0.75 WHIP
204 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Joel Kuhnel is a 31-year-old right-handed pitcher from Goldsboro, North Carolina, listed at 6-foot-5 and 290 pounds, a 2016 eleventh-round pick with 98 strikeouts in 117 MLB games. His last four AAA outings produced six strikeouts.
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
- $0.48Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.48M
- Service time
- 1 yr 127 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26) · agent Octagon
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
These figures were read off the sheet for Milwaukee Brewers, dated . He is now with San Francisco Giants — 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, Milwaukee Brewers.
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
- $0.90M
- Guaranteed
- $0.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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Umpire favor
-1.8 net runs over 13 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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