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Alika Williams
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 183 lb · born San Diego, CA, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd CB-A · played SS 107, 2B 21, 3B 7 · MLB debut 2023-07-25
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-04): 9 G · .320 AVG · 1 HR · 5 RBI · .986 OPS
179 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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FlagshipAlika Williams #128 · 2024 Topps Heritage · 11 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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Scout’s note
A compensatory first-round pick in 2020 out of San Diego, Alika Williams debuted in July 2023 and has 153 major-league games, all of them trying to prove the glove and the bat can coexist at shortstop. The engine flags the bat: an EV95 of 104.08, below the league median of 105.8, but a luck gap of 0.0841 — his results are outrunning his contact more than 99% of qualified hitters. The board has him No. 2 of 15 on the fade list. His .272 average and .740 OPS in 70 games for the Athletics this season are the line the engine is questioning. The last 14 MLB days were strong — a 1.078 OPS in eight games — but five strikeouts in that span and the underlying contact say the hot stretch is built on sand. The sprint speed of 27.8 is fine; the question is whether the ball comes off hot enough to last.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Williams's results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the 382 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 104.0 (league median 105.7) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 2 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 104.05
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0859
- Overlay score
- -0.7415
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 27.8
- Age
- 27
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.
- EV95104.026
- Deserved (xVal)0.3038
- Got (aVal)0.39573
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0861
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 126 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
- $0.56Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.56M
- Service time
- 1 yr 32 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
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, Athletics.
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
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — -0.015 from a baseline of 0.3756 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
TOO EARLY7 balls in play since we filedBASELINE 0.3756MOVED +0.0192 · MODEL WANTED -0.0034TARGET 0.36067 balls in play so far — we wait for 25 before we put a grade on it. A scoreboard built on six swings is a slot machine.
A progress reading, not a forecast.
Nothing here has been graded yet — not because we have been wrong, but because no window has closed. The first one closes , and it will be counted either way.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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The Bureau on Alika Williams
The scouting press, in their own words
Pirates are sending RHP Kyle Robinson, 2024 11th-rder, who they got from the A's for Alika Williams earlier this year, to the Angels. https://t.co/dMcswTJ7am
Umpire favor
-0.4 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 46 | 101 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 35 | .198 | .518 |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 37 | 87 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | .207 | .541 |
| 2026 | Athletics | MLB | 71 | 166 | 20 | 45 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 43 | .271 | .735 |
| MLB CAREER | 154 | 354 | 40 | 83 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 19 | 100 | .234 | .625 | ||
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