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Max Fried
B/T L/L · 6' 4" · 190 lb · born Santa Monica, CA, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd 1 · played P 21 · MLB debut 2017-08-08
434 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Max Fried, a 32-year-old left-hander from Santa Monica and a 2012 first-round pick, has 1,156 strikeouts across 220 big-league games with the Yankees — a frontline starter whose career line still carries real weight.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Fried here — The Buzz August 19, 2026 · July 22, 2026
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $14.50M
- Tax hit
- $27.25M
- Service time
- 8 yr 148 d
- Guaranteed
- $218M
The deal 8 years $218M (2025–2032) — $27.3M 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: 8 y/$218M (25-32) · agent CAA · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $31.5M | $31.5M | $31.5M | $31.5M |
| Tax hit | $27.3M | $27.3M | $27.3M | $27.3M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.
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
- $27.3M
- Guaranteed
- $218.0M
- Term
- 8 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $12.0M | $29.0M | $29.0M | $29.0M | $29.0M | $29.0M | $29.0M |
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.
The Wire
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The Bureau on Max Fried
The scouting press, in their own words
Two-run home run, Victor Mesa Jr. That ends Max Fried's night with two outs in the sixth inning. Paul Blackburn will pitch for the Yankees. The Rays lead 4-2.
Max Fried will start Game 3 for the Yankees, Aaron Boone confirmed.
Max Fried said this about the Rays before their series against the Yankees began -- and it seems particularly pertinent with New York committing two errors in the first inning of Game 2. https://t.co/KLD8fdd0rw
Umpire favor
-0.6 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Max Fried’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 Division Series, Game 3 · NYY vs. TB · 5.2 IP, 7 K, 4 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · NYY vs. BOS · 6.0 IP, 6 K, 1 ER
The line
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