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Ray Kerr
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 185 lb · born Sacramento, CA, USA · age 32 · played P 17 · MLB debut 2022-04-24
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-03): 2 G · 4.0 IP · 2.25 ERA · 1 SO · 1.00 WHIP
81 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ray Kerr is a 32-year-old left-handed reliever from Sacramento who debuted in 2022 and has 75 strikeouts in 46 career MLB games. He has fanned five across three big-league appearances in the last two weeks.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.18Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.18M
- Service time
- 1 yr 80 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
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.
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The Bureau on Ray Kerr
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
-1.2 net runs over 6 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Ray Kerr’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.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 3 · ATL vs. PHI · 3.1 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
The line
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