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Kenley Jansen
B/T S/R · 6' 5" · 265 lb · born Willemstad, Curacao · age 39 · played P 51 · MLB debut 2010-07-24
180 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipKenley Jansen #325 · 2025 Topps Heritage · 14 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieKenley Jansen #US-114 · 2010 Topps Update · 157 recent sales 7N ▲15.3%
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Scout’s note
Kenley Jansen is a 39-year-old right-hander from Willemstad, Curacao, closing in Detroit after 983 big-league appearances. The one number that holds up across all of them: 1,329 strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Free agent after this seasonA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $2.00M
- Service time
- 16 yr 73 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $11M (2026), club option for 2027
On the sheet: 1 y/$11M (26)+27 cl opt · agent Wasserman
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $11.0M
- Guaranteed
- $11.0M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $9.0M | $12.0M |
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
-1.1 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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