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Kirby Yates
B/T L/R · 5' 10" · 205 lb · born Lihue, HI, USA · age 39 · draft 2005 rd 26 · played P 96 · MLB debut 2014-06-07
178 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career saves — Sat, Jun 27 · night game vs. Athletics The scorecard → · The write-up →
Scout’s note
Kirby Yates is 39, a left-handed-hitter from Lihue who was a 26th-round pick in 2005 and has been in the big leagues since 2014. He has 672 career strikeouts in 518 games and is still here, appearing once in the last two weeks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $5.00M
- Guaranteed
- $5.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $5.0M |
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
+0.5 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →