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Kevin Kelly
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Springfield, VA, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 19 · played P 71 · MLB debut 2023-04-01
279 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Kevin Kelly is a 28-year-old right-hander from Springfield, Virginia, a 19th-round pick in 2019 who has thrown in 237 big-league games. Over his last 14 days in the majors, he has appeared three times and struck out one.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $2.00M
- Tax hit
- $2.00M
- Service time
- 3 yr 156 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Elite Sports
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | 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, Tampa Bay Rays.
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
- $0.93M
- Guaranteed
- $0.93M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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 Kelly
The scouting press, in their own words
Kevin Kelly, Filthy 86mph Changeup. 😷 https://t.co/7GFuRGVC8x
Umpire favor
-0.8 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Kevin Kelly’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.
- AL League Championship Series, Game 6 · TB vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 4 · TB vs. CLE · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 2 · TB vs. CLE · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 1 ER
- AL League Championship Series, Game 1 · TB vs. CLE · 0.1 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
- AL Division Series, Game 3 · TB vs. NYY · 0.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
The line
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