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Kevin Gausman
B/T L/R · 6' 2" · 205 lb · born Centennial, CO, USA · age 35 · draft 2012 rd 1 · played P 64 · MLB debut 2013-05-23
750 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
2,100 career strikeouts — Mon, Aug 24 · night game vs. Arizona Diamondbacks The scorecard →
2,000 career strikeouts — Mon, May 11 · night game vs. Tampa Bay Rays The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipKevin Gausman #AA-50 · 2023 Topps All Aces · 205 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieKevin Gausman #US274 · 2013 Topps Update · 58 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
A first-round pick out of Centennial, Colorado, Gausman has struck out 2,138 hitters across 393 major-league games — a career built on missing bats, still going at 35.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Gausman here — The Overnight: 2,100 career strikeouts (August 24, 2026) · 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 K, BB (August 24, 2026) · The Buzz August 4, 2026
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
- $23.0M
- Guaranteed
- $110.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $23.0M |
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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The Bureau on Kevin Gausman
The scouting press, in their own words
Book is closed on Mahle with 85 pitches, 55% splitters, 1 earned run on an inherited runner. Highest splitter usage in a 75+ pitch playoff start, Statcast era 1. Mahle 58%, 2026 vs. PHI 2. Mahle 55%, 2026 vs. LAD 3. Kevin Gausman 53%, 2025 vs. LAD
THE SCOUTING CLASSROOM Stories Behind the Report THE PITCHER WASN’T FINISHED YET At 17, Kevin Gausman was 6-foot-4, 165 pounds and 86–90. The ingredients were louder than the radar gun. When I first started evaluating Kevin Gausman during the fall of his junior year at https://t.co/PEnF72dOOD
Cade Horton's changeup grip, which he developed a few years ago in South Bend, was inspired by Kevin Gausman's grip. Full-circle moment. Gausman is now a Cub. https://t.co/oTedqI613e
Umpire favor
+1.6 net runs over 29 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Kevin Gausman’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 3.1 IP, 1 K, 3 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →