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José Alvarado
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 245 lb · born Maracaibo, Venezuela · age 31 · played P 56 · MLB debut 2017-05-03
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-31): 5 G · 4.2 IP · 1.93 ERA · 4 SO · 1.07 WHIP
231 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
José Alvarado is a 31-year-old left-handed reliever from Maracaibo, Venezuela, with 529 strikeouts in 464 career games since his 2017 debut. He has struck out four over his last five MLB outings.
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
- $9.00M
- Tax hit
- $9.00M
- Service time
- 8 yr 9 d
- Guaranteed
- $22M
The deal 3 years $22M (2023–2025), club option for 2026 — $7.3M 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: 3 yr/$22M (23-25)+26 cl opt · agent OL Baseball · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 8.009 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Philadelphia Phillies.
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
- $9.0M
- Guaranteed
- $22.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $9.0M |
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.
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
+1.0 net runs over 26 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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