Full case file · Center Fielder · New York Yankees · Baseball

Jacoby Ellsbury

520 of 972 possible team games across six years of his $153M deal
Repeat offender 452 career games missed
Estimated salary collected across every game missed, career-wide
$58,991,181
Sum of each season's base salary, prorated per game and multiplied by that season's games missed — from 2014 through 2019.
6 seasons tracked
452 of 972 expected games missed
$126,857,142 in base salary paid
= $58,991,181 earned inactive
Games played
520
of 972 possible
Games missed
452
46.5% of tracked span
Full seasons lost
2
played 0 games
Base salary, tracked span
$126,857,142
excludes bonuses, endorsements

Availability, tracked seasons

520 played (53.5%)
2014 452 expected games missed across 6 seasons 2019

The ledger, season by season

Base salary ÷ expected games that season × games missed that season. "Expected games" is the team's full schedule for position players, or a starting pitcher's typical rotation turns (~team games ÷ 5) — a healthy ace was never going to start 162 games either. Figures are approximate, sourced from public salary and game-log reporting.

Season Expected Played Missed Base salary Per game Collected inactive
2014
Best season with the Yankees; missed final 9 games with a thigh strain
162 149 13 $21,142,857 $130,511 $1,696,649
2015
Knee sprain in May cost roughly two months
162 111 51 $21,142,857 $130,511 $6,656,085
2016 162 148 14 $21,142,857 $130,511 $1,827,160
2017
Last games of his career; used as a pinch-runner in the ALCS
162 112 50 $21,142,857 $130,511 $6,525,573
2018
Missed full season - oblique, back, then hip surgery in August
162 0 162 $21,142,857 $130,511 $21,142,857
2019
Missed full season - rehab setbacks, never appeared in a game
162 0 162 $21,142,857 $130,511 $21,142,857
Career total 972 520 452 $126,857,142 $58,991,181

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