MLB · C · Toronto Blue Jays
Brandon Valenzuela
B/T S/R · 6' 0" · 225 lb · born Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico · age 25 · played C 77, 1B 5, DH 2 · MLB debut 2026-04-05
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 7 G · .214 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .670 OPS
246 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Brandon Valenzuela is a 25-year-old switch-hitting catcher out of Hermosillo, Mexico, in his rookie year with Toronto. His last 14 MLB games have been rough — a .063 average with 8 strikeouts in 9 games — after a start that had him at .225 with 8 home runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95105.748
- Deserved (xVal)0.39465
- Got (aVal)0.35649
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03180
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
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
- $0.75Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.75M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
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, Toronto Blue Jays.
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
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
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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Umpire favor
+1.1 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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