MLB · CF · Tampa Bay Rays
Jacob Melton
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 208 lb · born Medford, OR, USA · age 26 · draft 2022 rd 2 · played CF 28, RF 10, DH 4, LF 4 · MLB debut 2025-06-01
Injured 60-Day · Right hamstring strain. (roster status, as of )
43 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Jacob Melton, a Medford product and 2022 second-rounder, has swiped 7 bags in 32 major-league games — but he has also fanned 29 times with a .420 OPS and no home runs. The speed is ahead of the bat.
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, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 124 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Tampa Bay Rays.
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 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | 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 line
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