MLB · C · Houston Astros
Yainer Diaz
B/T R/R · 5' 11" · 195 lb · born Azua, Dominican Republic · age 28 · played C 90, DH 10, 1B 1 · MLB debut 2022-09-02
361 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
3-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB — Tue, Aug 25 · night game vs. New York Yankees The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Yainer Diaz is a right-handed catcher from Azua in the Dominican Republic with a .280 career average and a .762 OPS across 499 games, and over his last three MLB games he hit .429 with a 1.000 OPS — finishing the season hot.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Diaz here — The Buzz August 26, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95106.966
- Deserved (xVal)0.37352
- Got (aVal)0.38365
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01133
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
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
- $6.75M
- Tax hit
- $6.75M
- Service time
- 4 yr 35 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent PRIME
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
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
- $4.50M
- Guaranteed
- $4.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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Umpire favor
+0.4 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Yainer Diaz’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.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-4
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 0-4
The line
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