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Nathan Eovaldi
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 217 lb · born Houston, TX, USA · age 36 · draft 2008 rd 11 · played P 22 · MLB debut 2011-08-06
Injured 15-Day · Right posterior elbow inflammation (roster status, as of )
555 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
1,500 career strikeouts — Tue, Apr 7 · night game vs. Seattle Mariners The scorecard →
The card rack
FlagshipNathan Eovaldi #82 · 2024 Topps Heritage Mini · 11 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-03 · paid links
The rookieNathan Eovaldi #BCP165 · 2011 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 34 recent sales 7N ▼0.5%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-03 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Nathan Eovaldi is 36, a Houston kid turned 11th-round pick who's been in the bigs since 2011. He's still missing bats — 7 strikeouts across his last 2 starts for Texas.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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
- $29.00M
- Tax hit
- $25.00M
- Service time
- 14 yr 13 d
- Guaranteed
- $75M
The deal 3 years $75M (2025–2027) — $25.0M 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: 3 y/$75M (25-27) · agent ACES · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $24.0M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $25.0M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Texas Rangers.
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
- $24.8M
- Guaranteed
- $75.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $25.0M | $20.0M |
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 Nathan Eovaldi
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
-2.1 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →