Jonny DeLuca

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FlagshipJonny Deluca #RA-JDE · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 91 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

DeLuca's EV95 of 106.37 barely clears the league median of 105.9, but a .271 average with eight home runs and 37 RBI in 85 games reads like a man making harder contact than he is. The 0.0669 luck gap puts him ahead of more than 99% of qualified hitters, No. 5 on the fade board — the kind of gap that closes from above. A 25th-round pick from Thousand Oaks in 2019, he debuted in June 2023 and has played 236 big-league games, batting .250 for his career with 16 home runs. He's 28 now, 5'10" and 195 pounds, with 29.3 feet per second in sprint speed and 207 balls in play this season. The engine's read is straightforward: the production is real in the box score but borrowed against the barrel.

Current signals

The read: DeLuca's results are outrunning his contact by more than 98% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 106.6 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 7 of 15 on the fade board.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

106.62

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0654

Overlay score

-0.4469

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.8

Balls in play

210

Sprint (ft/s)

29.3

Age

28

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 August 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.79Mest

Tax hit

$0.79M

Service time

2 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, Tampa Bay Rays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. 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

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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