Nelson Velázquez

Scout’s note

Nelson Velázquez, a fifth-round pick from Carolina, Puerto Rico, has 37 home runs across 246 career games, but a .208 average tells you the swing-and-miss comes with the power. Over his last 14 days in the big leagues he went hitless in 6 games with 3 strikeouts, drawing one walk.

Note written Sep 28 · 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 July 31, 2025.

2026 salary

—est

Tax hit

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Service time

2 yr 51 d

Options left

0 / 3

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

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

$0.93M

Guaranteed

$0.93M

Term

1 yr

His class

MiFA

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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