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Victor Mesa Jr.
B/T L/L · 5' 11" · 195 lb · born Havana, Cuba · age 24 · played RF 59, CF 14, DH 4, LF 4 · MLB debut 2025-05-26
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-01): 1 G · .000 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · 1.000 OPS
208 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Victor Mesa Jr., out of Havana, is a left-handed right fielder getting his first real run in Tampa. The .209 average over 71 games is thin, but the .715 OPS says the power is real enough for a corner.
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.
- EV95106.966
- Deserved (xVal)0.36948
- Got (aVal)0.36555
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.00043
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.
No hollow dots on his strip. He had not reached 100 balls in play by , so there is no earlier place to mark. He has 128 now.
What he’s paid
Pre-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
- $0.57Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.57M
- Service time
- 0 yr 34 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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 | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
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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Umpire favor
-0.6 net runs over 20 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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