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Paul Blackburn
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 196 lb · born Antioch, CA, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd C-A · played P 53 · MLB debut 2017-07-01
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 7 G · 8.2 IP · 0.00 ERA · 8 SO · 0.92 WHIP
303 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Paul Blackburn is a 32-year-old right-hander out of Antioch, California, in his tenth big-league season for the Yankees. Over 147 career MLB games he has 417 strikeouts, but his last 14 days at the MLB level — six games, just six strikeouts — say he's working in a low-leverage role right now.
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
- $2.00M
- Tax hit
- $2.00M
- Service time
- 6 yr 18 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $2M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$2M (26) · agent Boras Corp.
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 6.018 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, 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
- $2.00M
- Guaranteed
- $2.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $2.0M |
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.
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The Bureau on Paul Blackburn
The scouting press, in their own words
Final: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0 It's the Yankees' first 1-0 win over the Red Sox since 2008, per @ESPNInsights. Joba Chamberlain, Kyle Farnsworth, and Mariano Rivera combined for the shutout that day. Tonight it was Cam Schlittler, Brent Headrick, Paul Blackburn, and David Bednar.
Umpire favor
+0.3 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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