MLB · P · Kansas City Royals
John Schreiber
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 224 lb · born Wyandotte, MI, USA · age 32 · draft 2016 rd 15 · played P 55 · MLB debut 2019-08-09
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 6 G · 5.1 IP · 3.38 ERA · 3 SO · 0.38 WHIP
206 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
John Schreiber is a 32-year-old right-hander from Wyandotte, Michigan, a 15th-round pick who has logged 327 big-league games. Six MLB appearances in the last two weeks produced three strikeouts, which is the line of a reliever getting soft usage.
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
- $0.54M
- Tax hit
- $0.54M
- Service time
- 5 yr 27 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $3.7M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$3.715M (26) · agent ACES
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
These figures were read off the sheet for New York Yankees, dated . He is now with Kansas City Royals — 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, 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
- $3.71M
- Guaranteed
- $3.71M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
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.
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The Bureau on John Schreiber
The scouting press, in their own words
The Yankees have claimed right-handed reliever John Schreiber off waivers, a source confirmed to ESPN. He had a 3.55 ERA in 55 games for the Royals. Strong splits: .414 OPS vs. RHH, 1.024 OPS vs. LHH. @Joelsherman1 was on the news first.
Source: The Yankees are signing John Schreiber.
The Royals placed righty reliever John Schreiber on waivers. He has a 3.65 ERA in 55 appearances and only has about $600,000 left if a team claims him. Righties are hitting just .143 off him (LHHs: .326).
Umpire favor
+0.5 net runs over 20 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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