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Sonny Gray
B/T R/R · 5' 10" · 190 lb · born Smyrna, TN, USA · age 36 · draft 2011 rd 1 · played P 25 · MLB debut 2013-07-10
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 3 G · 18.0 IP · 3.00 ERA · 18 SO · 1.33 WHIP
586 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
2,000 career strikeouts — Sun, Jun 28 · night game vs. New York Yankees The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipSonny Gray [Gold] #40 · 2026 Topps · 46 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
The rookieSonny Gray #US277 · 2013 Topps Update · 152 recent sales 7N ▲19.7%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
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Scout’s note
A 2011 first-round pick out of Smyrna, Tennessee, Gray has 2,048 career strikeouts across 363 games. At 36, the engine sees 2.6 WAR, a 2.79 ERA that ranks tenth, and 16 wins leading the league. The Index carries him ungraded: the stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no arm gets a board flag from it. The ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and the regression call is filed by hand. The grade waits for the science. At 36, he is still going.
Current signals
The read: Gray is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.
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
- $31.00M
- Tax hit
- $41.00M
- Service time
- 12 yr 61 d
- Guaranteed
- $75M
The deal 3 years $75M (2024–2026), with an opt-out, club option for 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 (24-26)+27 cl opt* · agent McKinnis Sports · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $10.0M |
| Tax hit | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $41.0M
- Guaranteed
- $75.0M
- Term
- 3 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $31.0M | $30.0M |
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 Sonny Gray
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
The Bureau on Sonny Gray
The scouting press, in their own words
Had a fun chat with #Cubs first-round pick Cade Townsend today. He told me he's lowering his arm angle and thinks it'll help with arm health. His breaking ball shapes might change as well. Also said he models his game after Sonny Gray. @WatchMarquee https://t.co/ASrZocWpdT
Umpire favor
-2.5 net runs over 24 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 12 | 64.0 | 5–3 | 0 | 2.67 | 67 | 1.11 |
| 2014 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 33 | 219.0 | 14–10 | 0 | 3.08 | 183 | 1.19 |
| 2015 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 31 | 208.0 | 14–7 | 0 | 2.73 | 169 | 1.08 |
| 2016 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 22 | 117.0 | 5–11 | 0 | 5.69 | 94 | 1.50 |
| 2017 | Oakland Athletics | MLB | 16 | 97.0 | 6–5 | 0 | 3.43 | 94 | 1.18 |
| 2017 | New York Yankees | MLB | 11 | 65.1 | 4–7 | 0 | 3.72 | 59 | 1.26 |
| 2017 | Total | MLB | 27 | 162.1 | 10–12 | 0 | 3.55 | 153 | 1.21 |
| 2018 | New York Yankees | MLB | 30 | 130.1 | 11–9 | 0 | 4.90 | 123 | 1.50 |
| 2019 | Cincinnati Reds | MLB | 31 | 175.1 | 11–8 | 0 | 2.87 | 205 | 1.08 |
| 2020 | Cincinnati Reds | MLB | 11 | 56.0 | 5–3 | 0 | 3.70 | 72 | 1.21 |
| 2021 | Cincinnati Reds | MLB | 26 | 135.1 | 7–9 | 0 | 4.19 | 155 | 1.22 |
| 2022 | Minnesota Twins | MLB | 24 | 119.2 | 8–5 | 0 | 3.08 | 117 | 1.13 |
| 2023 | Minnesota Twins | MLB | 32 | 184.0 | 8–8 | 0 | 2.79 | 183 | 1.15 |
| 2024 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 28 | 166.1 | 13–9 | 0 | 3.84 | 203 | 1.09 |
| 2025 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 32 | 180.2 | 14–8 | 0 | 4.28 | 201 | 1.23 |
| 2026 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 25 | 143.2 | 16–4 | 0 | 2.82 | 128 | 1.18 |
| MLB CAREER | 364 | 2061.2 | 141–106 | 0 | 3.53 | 2053 | 1.20 | ||
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