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Connelly Early
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 195 lb · born Midlothian, VA, USA · age 24 · draft 2023 rd 5 · played P 38 · MLB debut 2025-09-09
418 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Midlothian product, fifth-round 2023, debuted in September. One hundred twenty-three strikeouts in 22 games is the number that makes you look twice at Connelly Early.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- Service time
- 1 yr 20 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| 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, Washington Nationals.
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
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- 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 Connelly Early
The scouting press, in their own words
Amazing development progression. In-season last year, Schlittler went from sitting 94 in early April to sitting 99 in Oct. And in the process he went from being an OK prospect to one of the best in baseball. If you are a pro pitcher and a genie grants you 1 wish: Ask for velo. https://t.co/66beaKnf20
Umpire favor
-2.2 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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