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Brandon Valenzuela
B/T S/R · 6' 0" · 225 lb · born Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico · age 26 · played C 88, 1B 5, DH 2 · MLB debut 2026-04-05
271 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Valenzuela is a 26-year-old switch-hitting catcher from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, who debuted this April. He has 91 games and a .222 average in his first big-league year, but over his last three MLB games he posted a 1.262 OPS with a home run.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- EV95105.748
- Deserved (xVal)0.39063
- Got (aVal)0.35850
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02473
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
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 1 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
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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The Bureau on Brandon Valenzuela
The scouting press, in their own words
PLive Card of the Day Number 114: A 1998 Fleer of Fernando Valenzuela "El Toro" put together one of the most incredible rookie seasons in the history of Major League Baseball in 1981. The southpaw tossed eight complete-game shutouts over the course of 192 and 1/3 innings https://t.co/lrYz6WDHtQ
Umpire favor
+0.9 net runs over 30 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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