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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 90 · MLB debut 2014-06-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 6 G · 5.2 IP · 1.59 ERA · 5 SO · 1.59 WHIP
Injured 15-Day · Right shoulder impingement. (roster status, as of )
169 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 a 39-year-old right-handed reliever from Lihue, Hawaii, drafted in the 26th round in 2005 and up since June 2014. Across 509 career games he has 664 strikeouts, with 5 in his last 6.
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
- $1.47M
- Tax hit
- $1.47M
- Service time
- 11 yr 21 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$5M (26) · agent Beverly Hills
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 11.021 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, Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.
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 Kirby Yates
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Umpire favor
+0.8 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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