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Keibert Ruiz
B/T S/R · 5' 11" · 238 lb · born Valencia, Venezuela · age 28 · played C 102 · MLB debut 2020-08-16
354 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Keibert Ruiz, the switch-hitting catcher from Valencia, Venezuela, is a .254 career hitter with 54 home runs in 579 games. His last nine MLB games are cold — a .167 average, no walks, no extra-base hits, and a .367 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.824
- Deserved (xVal)0.33124
- Got (aVal)0.35045
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02617
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $5.38M
- Tax hit
- $6.25M
- Service time
- 5 yr 64 d
- Guaranteed
- $50M
The deal 8 years $50M (2023–2030), unspecified option for 2031, unspecified option for 2032 — $6.3M 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: 8 yr/$50M (23-30)+31-32 opts · agent Octagon · 0 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $7.4M | $9.4M | $9.4M | Option |
| Tax hit | $6.3M | $6.3M | $6.3M | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Washington Nationals.
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
- $6.3M
- Guaranteed
- $50.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $5.0M | $5.0M | $7.0M | $9.0M | $9.0M | $12.0M | $14.0M |
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
-0.1 net runs over 28 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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