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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 17 · MLB debut 2017-08-08
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 1 G · 3.2 IP · 2.45 ERA · 4 SO · 1.09 WHIP
347 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Max Fried, a 32-year-old left-hander from Santa Monica, California, has 1,131 career strikeouts across 215 major-league games. His last two weeks brought one MLB start and four strikeouts — the rhythm of a veteran working through August.
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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $14.50M
- Tax hit
- $27.25M
- Service time
- 7 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 Max Fried
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The Bureau on Max Fried
The scouting press, in their own words
ICYMI https://t.co/zN2mHevxLd The Yankees got Max Fried back Saturday and hope not much longer for Judge. Thoughts on which teams could benefit most from IL returns down the stretch.
Max Fried, Gorgeous 73mph Curveball. 😍 https://t.co/0m61By6ZhT
https://t.co/zN2mHevxLd The Yankees get Max Fried back today, they hope not much longer for Judge. Thoughts on which teams could benefit most from IL returns down the stretch.
Umpire favor
+0.4 net runs over 14 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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