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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 56 · MLB debut 2013-05-23
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 3 G · 16.1 IP · 4.41 ERA · 18 SO · 1.29 WHIP
683 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
FlagshipKevin Gausman #AA-50 · 2023 Topps All Aces · 312 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
The rookieKevin Gausman #US274 · 2013 Topps Update · 51 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Kevin Gausman, 35, is from Centennial, Colorado — a 2012 first-round pick who debuted in 2013 and now pitches for the Cubs. He has 2,110 career strikeouts, and 18 of them came over his last 3 MLB starts.
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
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
- $6.89M
- Tax hit
- $6.89M
- Service time
- 11 yr 151 d
- Guaranteed
- $110M
The deal 5 years $110M (2022–2026) — $22.0M 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: 5 yr/$110M (22-26) · agent Tidal Sports · 0 / 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 11.151 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, Chicago Cubs.
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
Collect Kevin Gausman
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The Bureau on Kevin Gausman
The scouting press, in their own words
The Chicago Cubs' starting trio of Kevin Gausman, Clay Holmes and Matthew Boyd yielded a 0.45 ERA in the 3-game series, allowing just 8 hits in 20 innings, but still lost 2 of 3 games to the Diamondbacks.
The Chicago Cubs don't need Pete Crow-Armstrong to be a hero every night. He goes hitless in 5 at-bats. The Cubs still win 7-0 over the Arizona Diamondbacks behind Kevin Gausman's 7 shutout innings and Michael Conforto's 3-for-3 night with a HR and double.
Does Kevin Gausman have the biggest glove in existence?
Umpire favor
-1.7 net runs over 26 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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