MLB · P · St. Louis Cardinals
Justin Bruihl
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 215 lb · born Petaluma, CA, USA · age 29 · played P 73 · MLB debut 2021-08-08
346 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Justin Bruihl is a 29-year-old lefty from Petaluma, CA, in his sixth year of big-league relief work, and over his last 14 days at the MLB level he has made four appearances with one strikeout.
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
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 112 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $0.85M
- Guaranteed
- $0.85M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
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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The Bureau on Justin Bruihl
The scouting press, in their own words
I may have been wrong about Justin Bruihl. Certainly not a stuff monster but he’s been solid and one of the more dependable arms for the Cardinals down the stretch
Umpire favor
+0.4 net runs over 38 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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