MLB · RF · Cleveland Guardians
Jo Adell
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 215 lb · born Shelby, NC, USA · age 27 · draft 2017 rd 1 · played RF 238, LF 22, DH 20, CF 3 · MLB debut 2020-08-04
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 11 G · .256 AVG · 2 HR · 13 RBI · .738 OPS
566 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Chase
5 HR from 100 — our pace: ≈ October 13, 2026 Follow the chase →
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, from Shelby, North Carolina, has 93 career home runs in 582 games — raw power has never been the question. The 617 strikeouts are the rest of the story, and he's appeared just once in the last two weeks, suggesting the at-bats are getting scarce.
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.
- EV95110.194
- Deserved (xVal)0.41075
- Got (aVal)0.37561
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02271
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
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
- $1.53M
- Tax hit
- $1.53M
- Service time
- 4 yr 85 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $5.2M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$5.2M (26) · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| 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, Cleveland Guardians.
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
- $5.20M
- Guaranteed
- $5.20M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
Collect Jo Adell
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Umpire favor
-1.3 net runs over 36 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →