Jo Adell

The Line of the Day

3-4, HR, 6 RBI — Tue, Aug 18 · night game vs. San Francisco Giants The scorecard →

Scout’s note

Jo Adell, the 2017 first-rounder from Shelby, NC, is a right fielder now in Cleveland with 619 games of big-league time. He has 98 career home runs and a .695 OPS, and in his last MLB game he went 2-for-3 with a homer and a walk.

Note written Oct 11 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of January 17, 2025.

2026 salary

$8.20M

Tax hit

$8.20M

Service time

5 yr 85 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Cleveland Guardians.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$5.20M

Guaranteed

$5.20M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

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.

The Wire

△ On the field: In his first postseason Adell has eight RBI across six games.

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