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Alec Gamboa
B/T S/L · 6' 1" · 205 lb · born Madera, CA, USA · age 29 · draft 2019 rd 9 · played P 38 · MLB debut 2026-05-05
159 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Gamboa is 29, from Madera, a ninth-round pick who debuted this May. In 21 big-league games the left-hander has 23 strikeouts — better than one per outing for a late arrival.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 66 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
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
- $0.93M
- Guaranteed
- $0.93M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | 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.
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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The Bureau on Alec Gamboa
The scouting press, in their own words
Red Sox starting Gamboa in Game 1, Bello in Game 2 tomorrow.
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 14 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Alec Gamboa’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · BOS vs. NYY · 0.2 IP, 0 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · BOS vs. NYY · 0.0 IP, 0 K, 2 ER
The line
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