MLB · P · Kansas City Royals
Alex Lange
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 202 lb · born Riverside, CA, USA · age 31 · draft 2017 rd 1 · played P 59 · MLB debut 2021-04-10
275 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Alex Lange is a 31-year-old right-handed reliever from Riverside, California, a 2017 first-round pick now with Kansas City. Over 255 MLB games he has struck out 282, and in his last two weeks he added one strikeout across two appearances — a steady, unflashied arm in a bullpen role.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- 2026 salary
- $1.25M
- Tax hit
- $1.25M
- Service time
- 4 yr 145 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $0.90M
- Guaranteed
- $0.90M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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Umpire favor
+2.3 net runs over 19 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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